By Edward Chaykovsky

Back in 2012, Paul Williams was scheduled to face Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in the main event of a Showtime Pay-Per-View on September 15th of that year at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. But then tragically, a few months before the fight, Williams was severely injured during a motorcycle accident and he was paralyzed from the waist down.

There were several replacements who fell through before Josesito Lopez was placed in and destroyed in five rounds. At the time Williams was viewed as a very big step up in class for Canelo and there were some experts who were picking him to get an upset win. Williams strongly believes he would have won the fight if it would have happened.

"Of course I would have beaten him! Nothing against his skills but like Floyd said, 'he’s never been tested.' I was gonna be that guy that was gonna be in his face the whole night. I would be getting my punches in, I know he would be getting his in and he was gonna hit me with good shots but he wasn’t gonna knock me out," Williams told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.

"If it would have gone the twelve rounds, I was gonna get it. Other than knocking me out, he wasn’t gonna get it. They know my fighting style but I look at it like it was probably a blessing for me to go down on that motorcycle because say if I would have taken that fight with him, I know I would have won but I would have been taking punches like I always took punches and I thought I could have been brain dead. I could have been messed up, talking all kind of crazy. So I thank God and it is what it is."