I should add a caveat here. I'm thinking like this because the light middleweight division as it stands is a mess.

With Williams and Martinez moving up, and Manny moving back down it's one of the most empty divisions in boxing with no recognised champions. Fuck K9 Bundrage is a world champ there!

So having a high profile fighter like Alvarez who could bring some excitment to the weight class move into it is a good thing.

I wouldn't support fighters going into a stacked weight class and getting a title shot ahead of legit stars but pragmatically in this case I don't see it as a bad thing to get a guy like Alvarez into the division with a belt and some marketing to make the division a bit more exciting.

At the end of the day boxing isn't like other sports. It's an event based sport where each big fightcard is like a movie release. We need big movies and Alvarez having a world title belt might help create that later in the year and in 2012 in the light middleweight division.