No sooner than when loss numero uno came for the twenty three year old boxer were the calls of "too much and too soon".
The box office receipts from a particular Saturday evening last September weren't too proud to beg to differ. Live gate and pay TV records were surpassed monetarily more than quantifiably and that is what Las Vegas is all about.
Canelo is back and he's skipping a tune-up sort of contest for his return, unless the potential for getting his pretty face mangled by a maniacal type of fighter is his idea of refreshing.
Enter Alfredo "El Perro" Angulo on March 8, 2014 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
There will be times before the fight to compare and contrast beyond the obvious. The "Cinnamon versus The Dog" matchup will of course pit two Mexican combatants within the ring, however many of the similarities slam head on into a granite slab after that.
Alfredo Angulo was steamrolling through most of his competition and had compiled a 15-0 professional record with twelve knockouts (many early KO's) until he faced Kermit Cintron nearly five years ago. He lost because Cintron respected the power of "El Perro" and kept him at jab's length for much of the HBO televised contest. But Angulo rebounded less than three months later on ESPN and absolutely crushed middleweight contender Gabriel "King" Rosado in two rounds and placed Harry Joe Yorgey inside a vertical nap later on in 2009.
Much like a guts before glory battle, the man who punched last would go on to win.
Two fights came after his seven month lockup at a United States Immigration detention center and then he would go on to lose a heartbreaking stoppage loss to Erislandy Lara. After nearly ten rounds of back and forth action, Alfredo suffered a ghastly eye injury and could not continue, although he likely wanted to do so.
His reward seems to be a shot at knocking off a Mexican anomaly in Vegas. To label him as a Mexican warrior is fair and accurate, but to tag him as several rungs down the ladder is a mistake.
Hopefully, toe-to-toe is what we'll get, although the fighters are not so easily tagged. Canelo doesn't always push the action early, but "El Perro" could easily change his mind. The scary thought is of another possible debacle similar to Alvarez's April 2013 bout with Austin Trout. The ringside tally of a wash was actually more of a dusting. Unless Angulo absolutely guts his opponent in March, count on neither a decision victory nor the chance for a rematch.
Read more at http://www.fightsaga.com/news/item/4027-Canelo-Alvarez-vs-Alfredo-Angulo
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