Borges: Amir Khan Vs Canelo Alvarez ore than a puncher

LAS VEGAS — Amir Khan has contrasted his challenge of WBC middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez night to Sugar Ray Leonard’s upset of Marvelous Marvin Hagler 28 years ago, claiming that like that fight this one is about speed vs. power tomorrow. When the Mexican-born Alvarez heard that this week he snorted like El Toro prior to making clear he had his view that is own of.

“There is a difference between wanting and doing,” he said menacingly. “(Tomorrow) evening, he will see who will give who a boxing course. I’m ready to go all of those rounds. If a knockout presents itself I’m willing to take it but I don’t think about energy. I’m going to show him there’s a  lot more to me than power.”

Amir Khan Vs Canelo Alvarez. At 25, Alvarez has quickly become the new face of boxing, replacing the old standards, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, as the sport’s biggest attraction. His loss to Mayweather 21⁄2 years ago is the third grossing fight that is highest in the sport’s history and their one-sided decision over Miguel Cotto last November that won him the lineal and WBC titles did over 900,000 buys on pay-per-view. Those numbers, as much as his flaming red hair and 46-1-1 record with 32 knockouts, have given him power available on the market few others can boast.

That will make him ten dollars million plus an upside regarding the HBO pay-per-view telecast and make Khan $6 million richer for agreeing to take on someone who'll likely outweigh him by near to 15 pounds at battle time. A former welterweight that is junior and Olympic silver medalist, Khan has never battled above 147 pounds and had to accept a catch weight of 155 to secure his first mega-fight, a figure that suits Alvarez better than Khan.

Although the latter wears the middleweight champion’s belt, Alvarez is really a junior middleweight more comfortable at 154 pounds than the 160-pound middleweight limit. Yet he are going to be definitely the bigger and more powerful guy tomorrow night in Las vegas, nevada, as he and Khan open the recently built T Mobile Arena to its first boxing event, so it is normal to think about this within the way by which Khan does.

That energy difference, perhaps not to mention Khan’s suspect chin and sometime wavering defense, tend to lead one to that conclusion but Alvarez is a relentless body puncher and an individual and relaxed practitioner of the dark art of prize fighting. He is more than a puncher definitely.

He can engage whenever openings is there and if attacked, he will respond with a flourish as he was by James Kirkland. But his is a methodical approach to mayhem.

“It’s a virtue that i've,” Alvarez said of his nearly eerily demeanor that is calm the ring and out. “It’s the confidence that the difficult work has been done. Khan is a very fast, very elusive, and extremely fighter that is tricky but we am happy utilizing the work I have inked and I have always been willing to go into the band and break him down. People expect me to go for the knockout but I never do it. It comes. if it comes,”

Those are the expressed words of somebody wise beyond their 25 years. Alvarez has been well schooled by Eddy and Jose “Chepo” Reynoso, sometime ago having been taught that to pursue a knockout is a fool’s errand. As he says, it comes as it pertains.

While Alvarez won't ever be recognised incorrectly as Mayweather in terms of boxing skill, its a mistake to think of him as simply a robust puncher with the Mexican aggression therefore valued by his country’s fight fans. It would be equally folly to compare him to Mexico’s greatest fighter, Julio Cesar Chavez, yet in a proven way they are starkly similar.

Both are patient assassins, two fighters whom believed carving up an opponent is a proposition that is long-term. While Alvarez acknowledges he has had past troubles with rate, not only against Mayweather but also Erislandy Lara, who he beat by a split that is controversial, he is firm in his conviction that he discovered much from those fights which will be applicable against Khan.

“Look, we think I faced every sort of design,” Alvarez said. “There’s so numerous styles that are different faced. I’ve faced people like this are fast, elusive. I believe he doesn’t bring anything different towards the dining table that We haven’t faced before within the past. He’s really fast. He’s explosive. He’s a really, very good fighter.

“Obviously both of us will have our advantages. The thing that is key during the battle to make the most of those advantages. I feel that I’m obligated to win the fight, not fundamentally to win by knockout, but to win the fight. Obviously I have to be ready, but I’ve faced dudes like him before.’’

That which was left unsaid is that he’s beaten dozens of guys except Mayweather, guys like Lara and Austin Trout as well as Cotto and Kirkland. Guys with rate and dudes with energy. Tomorrow night, Canelo Alvarez expects to perform some same again, not perhaps in the way Amir Khan expects but in the manner he knows well.