{"id":22897,"date":"2013-07-29T16:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22897"},"modified":"2013-07-29T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T20:33:38","slug":"floyd-mayweather-must-continue-to-play-on-villain-status-vs-canelo-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22897","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather Must Continue To Play On Villain Status Vs. Canelo Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOYD MAYWEATHER vs.<br \/>\n SAUL ALVAREZ<\/p>\n<p>When the media circus that will inevitably surround the superfight between Floyd &#8220;Money&#8221; Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) and Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KOs) engulfs the sports world, it is imperative that Mayweather plays up his role as the villain.<br \/>\nMoney has never had an issue with portraying the bad guy in a matchup, and just as the boxing world rallied around Oscar De La Hoya in 2007, fans will look to Alvarez to become the star who finally dethrones the undefeated Mayweather.<br \/>\nMayweather has to turn himself into the ultimate villain and turn Canelo into a bigger star than he already is. Alvarez is being portrayed as a hero by many fans already, but Money running the challenger down in public would give casual fans the underdog they want to see steal the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOYD MAYWEATHER vs. SAUL ALVAREZ When the media circus that will inevitably surround the superfight between Floyd &#8220;Money&#8221; Mayweather (44-0, 26 KOs) and Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KOs) engulfs the sports world, it is imperative that Mayweather plays up his role as the villain. Money has never had an issue with portraying the bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}