Lopez and Alvarez, The Other Guys

Showtime, God bless em.

They were able to benefit from Josesito Lopez turning over the applecart and stopping the train that was Alvarez vs. Ortiz but what then?. Lopez captured our imaginations with the underdog them and without taking a good wind the Golden Boy machine went into the David vs. Goliath script hoping to pull some viewers away from Chavez vs. Martinez. Allow me to be the one to deliver the verdict, the other guys have made it all the way to my DVR to be viewed at about 1AM Central Time. so much competition. But lets not pile on here, Chavez vs. Martinez is not only for the legit Ring Magazine strap at Welterweight but it's getting real nasty over there. Don't get me wrong, i love watching Canelo learn English and i am down with all things Chitown (i hate you Aaron Rodgers) but this fight happened so randomly neither man really had much to promote. How do you hate on someone who was technically TWO Divisions away? Lopez's call out of Alvarez afterwards wasn't a product of any seething ambition, it just seemed like the thing to do. Kinda like when you were young and you pulled a girl you had no business pulling, it's all gravy so you see what you can get away with-your boys are already sculpting your Players Hall of Fame bust.What the hell right?. Canelo and Chavez Jr. reside in the same young Mexican Icon in training Draft class and they'll always be compared to one another. So its been no surprise to me that Canelo has been chirping more about going direct to Mayweather because watching this whole Martinez vs. Chavez thing intensify can be well, embarrassing. your counterpart is jumping in deep waters and may not come back and your tangling with essentially a junior welterweight...nice. And yet, the great thing about these two being the garage band opener is the possibilities- i mean they can upstage the incumbent (getn my political jargon on!) if something out of the ordinary happens. If Martinez does to Chavez what he said he was going to do and Lopez comes in a monster at 154 lbs. "The Other Guys" can steal the night from the bigger event and leave us bitter about that PPV bill. If Canelo endures a long limbed, inspired young lion and dispatches of him in exciting fashion we will be talking about his call out of Mayweather Sunday morning, because it's actually "doable" for Cinco De Mayo  2013. Martinez on the other hand will be "stuck" with Gennady Golovkin's heavy handed ass-ouch. So give some love to "Other Guys", they may have stumbled into your Saturday night through a side door but who knows? they just may crash your PPV party. OK, that's enough, time to get my snacks arranged for the Martinez/Chavez weigh in- In check back in with Lopez and Alvarez at another time.