Canelo Alvarez still hasn’t signed his contract to co-headline on May 4th with Floyd Mayweather. The reason isn’t that Canelo has a problem fighting Austin Trout, but he wants Floyd Mayweather to guarantee if they both win that he will fight him in the fall. That is something Mayweather isn’t ready to do.
Issue with Alvarez-Trout is, from what I’m told, Floyd’s unwillingness to commit contractually to an Alvarez fight in the fall (more)
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) February 27, 2013
From what I’m told, Floyd has a tough fight in front of him w/ Guerrero. That’s his focus. So if he wont sign for a fall Canelo fight (more)
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) February 27, 2013
Canelo unsure he wants to be on Floyd’s undercard, bringing attention & $$ to show but minus guarantee he gets Floyd, which is what he wants
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) February 27, 2013
From what I’m told, Canelo is fine to fight Trout or whomever GB wants to make, but not on Floyd’s card w/out guarantee of a Floyd fight
— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn) February 27, 2013
I see both sides to this, but if you are Canelo you have to think about it from a wider perspective. If he is on the Mayweather card, that means he is also going to be getting that love from CBS. Granted, he will be making Mayweather more money without a guarantee but there is a big difference being on a card on a Mayweather card with the full CBS/Showtime promotional push going on during NCAA March Madness and headling a random date in June on Showtime
Even if, Canelo did a PPV it wouldn’t come close to doing Mayweather type numbers. Plus, if Canelo is impressive, the public will pressure Mayweather to fight him sooner rather than later.
From a business perspective, it would be best to just fight on the May 4th card, but we shall see what happens.