The greatest fighter of his generation Floyd Mayweather Jr. has heard it all before as yet another touted pretender to his throne is put forward for a huge Las Vegas match-up in just over a weeks’ time.
These days, it only takes Mayweather’s name to be on the bill and the main event is already the biggest fight of the year, although this time, even the promoters are backing the fighter in the opposite corner in Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez.
At 23, the Mexican superstar has bulldozed his way through some good-to-soft tests throughout his career, but is yet to really be proven to the maximum against a seasoned top level operator like Mayweather.
Granted that names like Shane Mosley and Carlos Baldomir are safe for padding a record, with the question to be asked whether Alvarez really did show enough in out-pointing the unheralded Austin Trout last time to unify the titles.
