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by David P. Greisman - Don’t hold your breath for Canelo Alvarez vs. Austin Trout in 2013. If Alvarez ends up fighting Trout next year, it won’t be the promoter’s or the network’s first choice.
It wasn’t Golden Boy Promotions’ or Showtime’s first choice going into this past weekend. That will remain the truth as each begins to mull the options for Alvarez following Miguel Cotto’s loss to Trout on Saturday.
If this were a just sport — please, boxing fans, don’t all laugh at once — then upset winners and those who topple house fighters would be rewarded for their victories.
That’s not the way this sport works. Boxing, fittingly, has learned how to roll with the punches.
Erik Morales was six months removed from topping Manny Pacquiao when the two boxers again shared a card — this time in separate fights in September 2005 that were meant to set up their coming rematch. While Pacquiao did his part by dispatching Hector Velasquez, an out-of-shape Morales was embarrassed, out-boxed and defeated by Zahir Raheem. Nevertheless, Morales-Pacquiao 2 aired on pay-per-view just four months later.
Oscar De La Hoya didn’t lose to Felix Sturm in June 2004 — not officially, at least, though many observers disagreed with the judges’ decision — but he didn’t do much to sell his coming challenge of middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins. Nevertheless, Hopkins-De La Hoya aired on pay-per-view just three months later. [Click Here To Read More]
It wasn’t Golden Boy Promotions’ or Showtime’s first choice going into this past weekend. That will remain the truth as each begins to mull the options for Alvarez following Miguel Cotto’s loss to Trout on Saturday.
If this were a just sport — please, boxing fans, don’t all laugh at once — then upset winners and those who topple house fighters would be rewarded for their victories.
That’s not the way this sport works. Boxing, fittingly, has learned how to roll with the punches.
Erik Morales was six months removed from topping Manny Pacquiao when the two boxers again shared a card — this time in separate fights in September 2005 that were meant to set up their coming rematch. While Pacquiao did his part by dispatching Hector Velasquez, an out-of-shape Morales was embarrassed, out-boxed and defeated by Zahir Raheem. Nevertheless, Morales-Pacquiao 2 aired on pay-per-view just four months later.
Oscar De La Hoya didn’t lose to Felix Sturm in June 2004 — not officially, at least, though many observers disagreed with the judges’ decision — but he didn’t do much to sell his coming challenge of middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins. Nevertheless, Hopkins-De La Hoya aired on pay-per-view just three months later. [Click Here To Read More]
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