Canelo Alvarez trainer on the battle ahead

Julio Cesar Chavez Jr

JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ JR will fight Canelo Alvarez at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegasย on Saturday (May 6). But first Chavez Jr must make weight, 164 1/2lbs. Although that is a catchweight Chavez has not been that low since 2012.

But, speaking to Boxing News on the eve of the weigh in, Caneloโ€™s trainer Eddie Reynoso is still expecting Chavez to be a formidable opponent and is not banking on him being depleted by a battle with the scales. โ€œItโ€™s difficult, itโ€™s difficult to come down to a division that you havenโ€™t fought in for a while. I canโ€™t really predict that. Weโ€™ll see, weโ€™ll have to wait and see,โ€ Reynoso cautioned.

Canelo was a big super-welterweight but now has to move beyond even the middleweight limit. His team however consider that to be an advantage. โ€œHeโ€™s doing very good,โ€ Reynoso continued. โ€œHeโ€™s feeling great and he didnโ€™t get drained this time so itโ€™s a good feeling.โ€

Alvarez is a known power-puncher and his team havenโ€™t been focusing on that specifically, working on โ€œeverything that we always work on, attacking counters, defence, everything, just adding on to itโ€.

Reynoso is expecting Saturdayโ€™s fight to turn into a war, saying, โ€œWe are facing a tough Chavez. Heโ€™s going to be big, heโ€™s going to be strong, a lot of resistance. What can I say about his style? Itโ€™s the same style. Heโ€™s going to be aggressive, heโ€™s going to be coming forward and looking for the fight.โ€

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