he might have no choice but to fight canelo
all the other alternatives are either too small (garcia, khan), top rank fighters or more dangerous (serg)
and if u think about it canelo fighting Trout first makes a lot of sense for both sides
GBP gets to see what they have in Canelo, if he looks completely lost against Trout maybe they hold off on giving him to floyd
and floyd saw Trout beat cotto worse then he did, so if trout goes in there and gets destroyed by canelo maybe he thinks twice himself