BAD 11/26: Saul Alvarez vs. Kermit Cintron & Adrien Broner vs. Vicente Rodriguez

I'll take Alvarez by TKO 7th round or so.

Hopefully one of these days I get to see Broner KTFO, but I don't think it happens on Saturday. This is Thanksgiving, not Christmas. Broner on points after fighting on his back foot all night.

 

Damned business of boxing.

 

Maybe that's an indication that they're just not convinced that it was anything other than a massive fluke. Meaning, if he has another good showing, they'll consider putting him on again.........

Just a thought.

 

Alvarez vs Cintron has some upset potential if Cintron can recapture the form he had against Angulo. This will be the first opponent that Alvarez has faced that, in theory, has very good punching power and size/length. The matchup also, in theory, looks good for Cintron on paper because despite what some believe Alvarez vs Gomez was not an aberration for Alvarez, he was not toying with Gomez at all in that fight. Canelo is first and foremost, a counterpuncher. He only gets aggressive when his opponent shells up. When faced with an opponent like Gomez, who will actually throw a solid number of punches leading with a good jab, Alvarez will fight as he did that night, backing up constantly and looking for one big counter shot. Alvarez has a technically decent jab, but he doesn't work behind it nearly enough, and doesn't set up his combinations well against that type of opponent. Cintron at his best isn't as skilled a boxer as Gomez nor does he have Gomez's heart or workrate, but his great physical attributes in theory should cause Alvarez a lot of the same problems and Alvarez hasn't dealt with a real puncher yet in his career, so his chin is a question mark.

Now all that said, I think Alvarez will wax Cintron easily because Cintron has looked like absolute garbage in his last two fights. He's been throwing a lot of no power arm punches, giving up his size advantage against lesser opponents, and generally looking disinterested in the ring of late. He looks like a fighter that simply is fighting for the paycheck and doesn't really want to be in the ring anymore. And his history indicates that he'll fold one way or another when the going gets tough. I think this is case of well-timed matchmaking from the Canelo team, and he'll have little trouble with Cintron, taking him out sometime in the middle rounds.

 

Too true.(see bold) Although I do remember them mentioning Pirog in, i believe, Martinez vs Barker.

 

Thankful for a post-Thanksgiving fight card. Cintron has a puncher's chance I guess, but aside from that Canelo should have little problem. Not a big Broner fan but was impressed in his KO of Litzau.

 

cintron signed some sort of deal with the devil.the margo debacles ,the two losses to martinez,the williams mess and the molina loss and he still gets big fights

 

Smith deserved to lose for his barking bull****

 

I voted on all options.