Ellerbe declined to discuss any potential opponents. Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, said simply ?Yes,? when asked if 21-year-old star Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez is a possibility.
Golden Boy promotes Alvarez, the 21-year-old World Boxing Council super welterweight champion, and has promoted Mayweather?s last five bouts. Alvarez, who is 39-0-1, is hugely popular among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, and has been pining for a bout with Mayweather for several years. He talked of meeting Mayweather, who is 42-0, when he was only a teenager.
?Canelo very much wants the fight, I can promise you that,? Schaefer said.
Schaefer would not say whether any other opponents are being considered, but given that May 5 is Cinco de Mayo weekend, it?s a good bet that it will be Alvarez who will face Mayweather in a pay-per-view showdown from the MGM Grand.
That there will even be a Mayweather fight in the spring is a stunner of epic proportions. Mayweather attorney Richard Wright argued to Saragosa on Friday that a May 5 bout involving Mayweather would mean $100 million to the struggling Las Vegas economy.
Though the fact that Mayweather had planned to fight on May 5 was highly publicized before his Dec. 21 sentencing, Saragosa still sentenced him to six months in jail, with three months suspended, for a guilty plea on charges of domestic violence against Josie Harris, the mother of his children.
