Beware The Fury of a Patient Man: Canelo Alvarez & the WBC CUT the CRAP – Part II

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By Roy “Sharpshooter” Bennett

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez recently had to make a very important decision. To fight or refuse to fight Gennady Golovkin – his No.1 mandatory contender – in his next professional contest?Maybe the Gods of boxing’s Mount Olympus will grant the fans of the sweet science this one wish and the fight we all want to see takes place later this year. But let’s not get our hopes up too high. This is not the 1980’s. Behind the scenes Golden Boy Promotions have been scrambling like rats in a cage to find their guy some wiggle room to get out of this thing. And they’ve found it. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has decided to vacate and drop the lineal middleweight championship belt into a barrio trash can somewhere. That’s right. It’s a disgraceful and shameless ducking tactic. A blatant swerve! It has given him a way out of the fight and allows him to safely walk away from the ominous shadow of “GGG” darkening his doorway. But you know what? There’s a price to pay for running.

Oscar De La Hoya should buy this guy a bunch of Hawaiian shirts, put him in a witness protection program, move him down to Florida, and call him Dave. Mexican boxing fans will want nothing to do with him. After all the, “I’m not scared of anyone,” and, “We don’t f*** around!,” boasts he directed at Golovkin in the ring during post fight interviews, the fact is when it came to stepping up Canelo just didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to follow through. Like Harvey Keitel’s Pulp Fiction character Mr. Wolf somebody is going get the call to remove the body and come clean up the mess. In other words, Golden Boy Promotions just killed their star fighter’s reputation stone dead.

Judgement Day…

Over the past year “GGG” has waited patiently in the wings while the games of avoidance and excuse making have continued. He has maintained a calm and dignified exterior throughout the disrespect shown to him by Golden Boy Promotions, the WBC, and from Canelo Alvarez himself. But has anyone else noticed how vicious this Kazakh kid is when the bell rings on fight night? I don’t see this fight, if it ever gets made, ending well for Canelo at all.

Golovkin is 9 years older than Canelo at 34 years of age. No matter. I don’t see any slippage. I believe he will cruelly expose Canelo’s weaknesses for what they are. Deficiencies that have not been improved upon. All the wins over smaller and worn out boxers past their sell by date will not have prepared him for this encounter with a terrible force. The day of reckoning is coming. It will be cold and vicious and not a little frightening when Golovkin brings his considerable arsenal to bear against the man-child who would be king. I venture this will not be a competitive fight. Canelo Alvarez is on a hiding to nothing. He knows it and his promoter knows it.

If this whole thing had been handled properly from the beginning a loss to “GGG” need not have been ruinous to his career. As long as his corner and the referee were vigilant and didn’t allow him to suffer too much punishment Canelo could have rebuilt and fulfilled his considerable potential later on down the road.

But now the damage to his potential worth is immeasurable and fans the world over have begun turning their backs on him.

Golden Boy have ruined their golden goose. It will be a long time before it lays another golden egg.

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