Saul Canelo Alvarez Should Have Fought Kermit Cintron Instead This Past Saturday

Mexican sensation Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, the WBC 154 lb. champion, is one of those very rare mysterious phenomenons that just seems to be just getting more famous and endeared by the minute.

In a previous article on Canelo's last fight against Ryan Rhodes, I broke down how he ironically does not fight like a traditional Mexican fighter, meaning standing toe to toe and brawling, but he is, in fact, a rather smart technical fighter who will probably have a much longer career due to his safer fighting style.

For the more objective fight fans who still have many question marks about this red haired fast rising star, we of course can point out that at the age of 20, he is already holding the WBC title, but then of course, how he got it fighting a unjustified Matthew Hatton is definitely quite questionable.

Canelo then went on to fight Rhodes, who was supposed to be a big test and legit name to throw on his resume. We all know that fight was a complete waste of time since Rhodes decided not to fight and do much at all for almost all 12 rounds. As quickly as Canelo got his belt, people were already criticizing him for fighting someone like Rhodes in his first title defense after Rhodes' performance.

This, of course, is not Saul's fault. He is a fighter, and he is not the one matchmaking his fights, and of course, he is not responsible for his opponent not even trying that night.

However, what his promoters should have done was have him fight Kermit Cintron instead prior to last Saturday's fight against Carlos Molina.

Cintron is a big enough legit name who is a former world title welterweight champion and has been in the ring with all of the elite of 147/154 such as Antonio Margarito, Paul Williams and top pound for pound fighter of the year Sergio Martinez.

Had Golden Boy Promotions placed Canelo in the ring with Cintron before his Saturday fight with Molina, many of the critics would have been silenced by him taking on such a legit name for once.

Canelo would have utterly schooled Cintron so bad that we would have been really impressed with his performance, and we would have not viewed it as Cintron being washed up already.

Unfortunately, Molina exposed the fact that Cintron's heart and mind are no longer in the sport anymore, as he easily unanimously decisioned the former dangerous knock out artist.

Why didn't Golden Boy make a Canelo/Cintron fight instead of a Canelo/Rhodes fight? It is clear that they are still protecting him and riding his potentially long successful career as big, hard and long as they possibly can.

Cintron would have been a legit enough name to make us stop seeing that the "kid gloves" are still on Saul's undefeated WBC championship 20-year-old hands.

But it's too late, because after diving out of the ring at the Home Depot Center and then Saturday's horrible performance again at the Home Depot Center back to back tells us that it is too late to use Cintron as a legit name for he is clearly shot at this point.

The legit decent names at 154 seem to keep getting either shorter or longer depending on who you ask, but the true man of 154 and 160 is still the sexiest man in all of boxing Sergio Martinez, a fighter who no promoter will dare send their lambs to be slaughter in the slaughter house.

Canelo is great for the sport, and I am personally a fan, but we need him to fight at least a Cintron level fighter, a name who we recognize without having to look up on Boxing Rec at least.

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