Garcia vs matthysse, i remember 90% of the boxing community writing off garcia saying his end was near etc including myself. What would happen if canelo got the better of ggg (i find this unlikely) and proved us all wrong. Would you jump ship and become a canelo fan?
That's a good point I hadn't thought of. I'm on record here stating my belief that Canelo does have a good shot of beating GGG, especially (and I hate to go there) with the "favorable " judging he always gets in fights.
... and Canelo didn't take GGG so far precisely because it's a 50-50 fight?
Yes. It's a big risk. Losing to Floyd at 23 is respectable. Losing to Golovkin in the prime of his career is much more troublesome.
Also, people truly don't understand how big Canelo is. He was dehydrating to high 160s when he was a kid fighting at 147. His last 2 rumored rehydration weights in 2014 was 172 and 173. Right now he's close to entering his prime and his body is fully matured.. I would guess his fight night weight is around 175-178.
He's much heavier than his opponents. This advantage let's him not care that much about the power of his opponents, and all he has to focus on is out boxing his guy.
Fighting someone like Golovkin is a completely different from everything Canelo has done so far. It's gonna be the first opponent who can truly hurt him.
Golovkin would destroy Canelo, but IF, hypothetically IF, Canelo were to win. Then I would have to conclude that his unimpressive perfomances below 160lbs were just a result of him being extremely weightdrained, with him being a solid powerhouse at 160lbs.
Only the trolls truly think that Canelo-Golovkin is an easy fight. It's damn close to a 50-50.
People don't realize how big Canelo is, and they forgot how good of a boxer he is due to all the recent moments of cowardice.
... and Canelo didn't take GGG so far precisely because it's a 50-50 fight?
Only the trolls truly think that Canelo-Golovkin is an easy fight. It's damn close to a 50-50.
People don't realize how big Canelo is, and they forgot how good of a boxer he is due to all the recent moments of cowardice.
Garcia vs matthysse, i remember 90% of the boxing community writing off garcia saying his end was near etc including myself. What would happen if canelo got the better of ggg (i find this unlikely) and proved us all wrong. Would you jump ship and become a canelo fan?
So Canelo would randomly close Golvkins eye with a random punch?
What if canelo vs ggg ended the same way as
Garcia vs matthysse, i remember 90% of the boxing community writing off garcia saying his end was near etc including myself. What would happen if canelo got the better of ggg (i find this unlikely) and proved us all wrong. Would you jump ship and become a canelo fan?
Accidents will ever happen. :)
(... I mean something like that "phantom thumb punch" which closed Lucas' eye...)
cant see it happening, they did a 6 round spar before with people watching and was pretty one sided from what i read, canelo wobbled at one point with a headguard on. Know sparring doesnt usually mean much but they are fighters at different levels. I picked garcia to beat matthyse cause he'd shown limitations against judah for example, GGG hasnt put a foot wrong yet.
They say GGG hasn't put a foot wrong cos he fights bums. But then say they aren't ready and will only fight GGG when ready?
9y ago
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