Floyd Mayweather Jr., keen enough to understand what drives pay-per-view sales, stood before a pro-Saul "Canelo" Alvarez crowd Tuesday night at L.A. Live and played up the bad-guy persona that generated a record TV audience six years ago in his fight against Oscar De La Hoya. When promoter Richard Schaefer excited the estimated 10,000 fans by saying that Alvarez is "the younger, stronger and better-looking" of the two fighters, Mayweather interrupted to note, "He ain't the highest-paid one." Jeers from the masses. Smiles from those hoping for a windfall from the Sept. 14 world super-welterweight title fight between two unbeatens at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Mayweather (44-0, 26...
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