Saul "Canelo" Alvarez will look to move one step closer from landing another big fight when he takes on Erislandy Lara on July 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

In an interview with On The Ropes Boxing Radio on Thursday, Alvarez said that he is aching to get into the ring with Lara and he wants to make his opponents pay for insulting him before.

"It's real, for all the things that he's said, all the insults he's said to me and to Mexican boxing. I took all of that personal and this is a personal fight, I'm not playing or doing promotion. I don't talk to promote fights," Alvarez said.

The former light middleweight champion is reportedly referring to Lara's disrespectful act when he went up on stage during the post-fight press conference of Canelo's win against Alfredo Angulo in March.

Alvarez said in an interview that the incident during the post-fight press conference, where Lara challenged him to a fight, is still fresh in his mind, which was also the reason why he agreed to face the 31-year-old Cuban.

"The press conference where Lara got up on stage that definitely bothered me," Alvarez said via BoxingNews24. "I'm not one of those fighters to do that type of thing. Him talking so much was the straw that broke the camel's back. That's why we're fighting now."

Golden Boy Not Sweating PPV Numbers

Meanwhile, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya expressed no concern about the pay-per-view potential of the upcoming Alvarez-Lara showdown next week.

De La Hoya is confident that Alvarez's huge Latino fan base will be enough to draw significant pay-per-view numbers, while also adding that the entire fight card will be attractive to fight fans.

"When you have Canelo involved in a pay-per-view fight, as the numbers show -- his very first pay-per-view that he was headlining generated close to 400,000 (buys)," De La Hoya said via BoxingScene. "So having this fight with Erislandy Lara and having a stacked card, people know what they're going to watch. People are going to tune in to watch a spectacular event. So we're not worried one bit, whatsoever."

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