By Carlos Boogs

Joe Gallagher, trainer of WBO junior middleweight champion Liam Smith (23-0-1, 13KOs), is working hard on a strategy to score a stunning knockout of Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (47-1-1, 33KOs).

Canelo, in his first fight at 154 since 2013, will challenge Smith for the WBO junior middleweight world title on September 17th at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Gallagher has some concerns with the scoring and the judges being influenced by a crowd of 30 to 40,000, who mostly going to be Mexican fight fans in support of Canelo.

Gallagher had Amir Khan ahead on points, as did many other observers, when Canelo knocked him out in the sixth round at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. But when the fight was over, it was revealed that Canelo was ahead on two of three scorecards - and one of the judges gave Khan a single round.

In his biggest career fight, against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2013. - Canelo was dominated over the twelve round distance but one of the judges somehow scored the fight a draw. And against Erislandy Lara in 2014, most saw the contest as a close fight where either man could have won by 7-5 margin (115-113) but one judge had it for Canelo with a score of 117-111.

Even the scoring of last November's win against Miguel Cotto raised some eyebrows. Canelo walked away as the winner in the eyes of most observers of a competitive fight, but one judge gave Cotto a single round while another judge gave him two.  

Because of Canelo's luck with scorecards, Gallagher feels more comfortable with his boxer going in there to secure a stoppage win.

"We will be going over there and going for the stoppage," Gallagher told BoxingScene.com's Declan Taylor. "You put faith in the judges to do the right thing, but it's going be a party that weekend, a Mexican party but we're going over there to spoil the weekend."

"We just want the judges to do their job... don't get took in by the atmosphere, don't get took in by the crowd, don't get took in by a shot that didn't land but everyone cheered. Just score the fight fairly and correctly. What we want Sunday morning is no controversy and a fight where the right man won."