It may not be Pacquiao, but this is big! Last night Floyd Mayweather announced the news of his next fight on Twitter and fans are happy. Details have been confirmed. Gotta love watching two undefeated fighters go toe to toe – someone is taking an L!
Report after the jump…
Via Dan Rafael at ESPN:
This time the fight that boxing fans want to see most got made.
Pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. and junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez signed on Wednesday night to fight Sept. 14 in the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in the biggest fight boxing has to offer.
“I chose my opponent for September 14th and it’s Canelo Alvarez,” Mayweather tweeted to break the news. “I’m giving the fans what they want.”
Mayweather holds a world title at welterweight (147 pounds), but he also still owns a junior middleweight title (154), which he won by outpointing Miguel Cotto in May 2012. After that fight, Mayweather returned to welterweight and defended the title against Roberto Guerrero in a lopsided unanimous decision win on May 4 at the MGM Grand.
But he is moving back up in weight to face Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KOs) with their belts on the line, although the fight will be contested at a catchweight of 152 pounds.
“It’s a done deal and Floyd is very excited to give the fans what they want,” Leonard Ellerbe, chief executive of Mayweather Promotions and one of Mayweather’s closest advisers, told ESPN.com. “This is the fight they wanted and this is what they are getting. It’s the biggest fight in all of boxing. It’s the biggest fight Floyd can possibly make.”
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