By Dan Ambrose:
It’s looking like former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul
“Canelo” Alvarez (41-1-1, 31 KOs) will be fighting the soon to be
37-year-old former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (38-4, 22
KOs) this December.
Steve Kim is talking about Clottey being the one that the 24-year-old
Canelo could be facing next instead of a more dangerous opponent like
Erislandy Lara, Demetrius Andrade or James Kirkland.
Clottey vs. Canelo isn’t a great fight, and it’s definitely not pay-per-view worthy. Golden Boy Promotions vice president Eric Gomez told ESPN this past week that Canelo’s next fight in December won’t be on pay-per-view. Gomez said it wouldn’t be on PPV because the market was over-saturated with too many PPV fights. But the closer reality is that there would be no way that Canelo and Golden Boy could sell Canelo vs. Clottey on PPV. Canelo-Clottey isn’t even a good fight for regular non-PPV Showtime. I see this as an ESPN Friday Night Fights undercard fight rather than any kind of main event type of fight.
Steve Kim is talking about Clottey being the one that the 24-year-old
Canelo could be facing next instead of a more dangerous opponent like
Erislandy Lara, Demetrius Andrade or James Kirkland. Clottey vs. Canelo isn’t a great fight, and it’s definitely not pay-per-view worthy. Golden Boy Promotions vice president Eric Gomez told ESPN this past week that Canelo’s next fight in December won’t be on pay-per-view. Gomez said it wouldn’t be on PPV because the market was over-saturated with too many PPV fights. But the closer reality is that there would be no way that Canelo and Golden Boy could sell Canelo vs. Clottey on PPV. Canelo-Clottey isn’t even a good fight for regular non-PPV Showtime. I see this as an ESPN Friday Night Fights undercard fight rather than any kind of main event type of fight.
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