{"id":19181,"date":"2012-06-04T19:12:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=19181"},"modified":"2020-05-18T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T07:44:30","slug":"saul-alvarez-canelos-next-boxing-opponent-comes-knocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=19181","title":{"rendered":"Saul Alvarez: Canelo\u2019s Next Boxing Opponent Comes Knocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now that James Kirkland is injured an unable to face WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on September 15 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the world’s uncrowned #1 junior middleweight contender, Carlos Molina, would like the fight.<\/p>\n

“Hell yeah I want that fight!” said Molina (19-5-2, 6 KOs) from his home in Chicago. “Every time I fight somebody, it seems like they get to fight Canelo after that. Kirkland was the second time it was going to happen. First time was with Kermit Cintron, whom I beat. Now they’re talking about giving the fight to Erislandy Lara that I had a controversial draw with… What can I do?”<\/p>\n

Molina says he’s ready, willing and able to step in, should anyone on Team Canelo come up with the novel idea of fighting the rightful #1 contender.<\/p>\n

“I’m in the gym training. I’m ready for anyone, Canelo, anybody. I want to fight anybody in the top ten. I want hard fights, the toughest guys out there. This is the best division in boxing and that’s where I want to be.”<\/p>\n

Molina says he would be up to his usual spoiler ways should he end up in a ring with Canelo. “I think he’s a good strong, young kid, but I see lots of openings to exploit on him. He’s good for a young guy, but how good? Let’s find out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that James Kirkland is injured an unable to face WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on September 15 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the world’s uncrowned #1 junior middleweight contender, Carlos Molina, would like the fight. “Hell yeah I want that fight!” said Molina (19-5-2, 6 KOs) from his home in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,5854,5949,2831],"class_list":["post-19181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-kirkland","tag-opponent","tag-saul-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19181"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}