“I am going after bigger fish” – Canelo
WBC “Silver” light-middleweight champion Saul Alvarez has distanced himself away from a potential all-Mexican showdown with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by calling the unbeaten 24 year-old, “A good fighter, but that’s it.”
Speaking on Mexican TV, Alvarez stated his intention to avoid middleweight Chavez Jr, in search of better known fighters in order to raise his profile, whilst Chavez hit back by saying “He called me out on TV, I didn’t even know who he was.”
Although it’s highly unlikely that the pair will meet in the near future, it could happen later down the line. If both fighters acquire a world title in their respective weights, then a Mexican super-fight in two, maybe three years could be one of the biggest since Barrera v Morales.
It has been mentioned that Alvarez’s promoters, Golden Boy have put an offer on the table to European welterweight champion Matthew Hatton, brother of two-weight world champion Ricky, to fight Alvarez in Mexico early next year.
It is an offer that will surely be turned down by both the Hatton brothers, as Ricky now promotes Matthew; it’s a known fact that the younger Hatton is chasing a world title bout with WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko, which could be arranged for next spring.