Canelo’s options besides GGG

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez decimated Liam Smith’s reign as WBO world super-welterweight champion but who will the Mexican face next?

If there was any doubt that Alvarez’s popularity outweighed his ability, he went some to erasing it in Dallas on Saturday night by producing a systematic and ruthless nine-round destruction of Liverpool’s Smith.

In the aftermath, Alvarez claimed that the hotly-anticipated match-up with middleweight king Gennady Golovkin is yet to take place because the Kazakh rejected a contract offer, so who else could be on his radar?

It was Alvarez’s first world title fight at 154lbs since his sole career defeat to Floyd Mayweather in September 2013 and having moved to 48-1-1-KO34 by the tender age of 26, the spectrum of options is wide…

Kell Brook

Sheffield’s IBF world welterweight champion Brook (36-1-KO25) suffered his first loss to Golovkin on September 10 but emerged from the fight with great credit. Having reportedly drained himself for years to make 147lbs, Golovkin insisted he did not believe Brook possessed the physical attributes of a middleweight and that leaves the division in between – super-welterweight – his most likely destination.

Both Brook and Alvarez are thick-set and the fight would be an intriguing confrontation with lucrative financial potential on both sides of the Atlantic. Canelo remains one of the most popular fighters in the US and Brook enhanced his profile Stateside by facing Golovkin. Despite the pros, whether at this stage Alvarez and Brook are too dangerous for each other is a point of discussion.

Willie Monroe Jr

Another Golovkin victim, Monroe Jr put himself in line for a big fight by outpointing Gabriel Rosado on …

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