SERIOUS!!! Saul Alvarez vs Alfonso Gomez

[Rantcatrat]

If HBO can turn down a fight (i.e. Paul Williams vs Nobuhiro Ishida) to make a better fight, who is it that I have to talk to, to make this clear that this fight should not go on?
Lara, Powell, Spinks or Williams could be better fights.

Lara just fought and lost at middleweight last week. How is he available?
Ditto for Williams who is also campaigning at middleweight.

Cory Spinks has lost 3 of his last 5 and his only win in 2 years was on points against a 16-10 club fighter.

Sechew Powell just lost a title fight last time out to Bundrage but you think deserves an immediate shot at another one?

By contrast Gomez has not lost a fight since losing to Miguel Cotto and has two decent wins in that time over Soto Karass and Castillo, thus a better record than both Spinks and Powell.

So all four of your fighters are either not available or are inferior choices to Gomez.

It's interesting that if you actually follow boxing form lines and go on merit, then Gomez is the best opponent of the selections you put forward. By contrast you just went with plucking some recognisable names out of the air with no assessment of their recent form, or even what weight class they are fighting in. Thus you displayed the panderings to casual fight marketing that you are claiming to oppose, i.e pick Spinks because he's recognisable name even though he's done nothing in years and is clearly a shot fighter now.

I don't think Gomez is a horrible opponent, but Gomez is the weakest of the opponents that were considered options for this fight. Martirosyan and Mayorga are better. Also, Gomez is a welterweight. Is this fight being fought at welterweight? Rhodes was ranked in the top ten when Canelo fought him, Gomez isn't in the top ten although that's mostly because he is considered a welterweight.

Mr. Baggins, coming from you, someone who violently detests overrated fighters (see Nonito and Sergio), your defense of Canelo is surprising. Canelo is spoken of as the next huge thing in boxing and he is ranked #3 at junior middleweight. This is ahead of Vanes, Lara, Williams, Bundrage, Dzinziruk, Trout, Monila, Rodriguez, Wolak and Latimore. Now, he deserves to be ranked above some of these guys, but Gomez doesn't, at least not most of them. The fact that this division is so deep and Canelo chose Gomez is the reason why people are disappointed. Furthermore, Gomez to me is a step back from Rhodes, at best a horizontal move, not a vertical one.