Canelo's defense is very impressive.

Very very impressive, there were times I felt like he learn a lot from the Mayweather fight. He knows when to take a breather, Bob and weave, lean out of range of his opponents etc it’s a joy to watch boxers from a defensive point of view as well, especially when their defence is about the upper body, not foot work movement.

This might have been the best head movement of his career and I've been impressed by it in the past. His stockiness in this fight made me think of Nicolino Locche

Its been impressive. I like Canelo's ring IQ, but yea his defense & elusiveness is up there with anyone in boxing today. F#cked up thing about tonight doe to me was this was a winnable fight for Jacobs. And I really don't know why he paid a mill for that extra weight that he didn't really use in the fight. If you wanna beat Canelo you gotta be in his face all night. You gotta push him back. You gotta make the pace. That extra weight woulda helped him do that. If you let Canelo control the pace you're letting him control the fight. And if he controls the fight he has too many ways to beat you. I'm actually surprised it was so close. I didn't score it but it felt like a 9-3, 8-4 fight & since we know how the judges do it I was expecting some 10-2, 9-3 cards. When I heard the first two cards of 7-5 I lowkey thought they might be reverse stealing it from Canelo or something crazy like that cuz boxing. He used that extra weight to take the punishment to the body.

Yes it was but he gasses out in the late rounds. Stamina is his weakness.

I swear him losing to mayweather was the best thing to happen to him. I don’t remember him having that type of movement until after the loss. I guess he said if you can’t beat them join them lol. He always had good defense but he improved more. With Trout he did a very good job in defense too

Like watching the matrix films

Yup. The way Jacobs punches shaved a milimeter off his chin red hairs is Matrix stuff

His head and upper body movement is phenomenal. That really stuck out to me. It’s definitely better than it looks. I’ve watched him several times in the flesh and his defence is excellent. Especially on the inside and mid range. Very hard to catch clean, great upper movement. I tend to root against Canelo but no doubt he’s a superb fighter.

He is a fu.cking máster of boxing

He's very flat footed so he can't use his legs for defense. He's developed that head movement out of necessity. I actually edited my ish right after. But yeah. Exactly. But thats a credit to his team. At MW his lack of foot speed is almost a non issues because his handspeed is so much faster than anyones. And along with his reaction time and iq, he went from hittable to making a guy like Jacobs so shy that hed throw slapping weak shots to avoid overcommitting and despite the length difference, Canelo is somehow always in range. Slow feet but good feet.

Yessir, Canelo has some Toney in him. You have to target the body against him and then go upstairs. Either that or you have to have faster hands than him and beat him to the punch.

Yeah. We used to s hit on him about lack of head movement and then post Trout dude’s defense has been tremendous. He's very flat footed so he can't use his legs for defense. He's developed that head movement out of necessity.

His head and upper body movement is phenomenal. That really stuck out to me. I swear him losing to mayweather was the best thing to happen to him. I don’t remember him having that type of movement until after the loss. I guess he said if you can’t beat them join them lol.

His head and upper body movement is phenomenal. That really stuck out to me. He always look good in the first half, then he gets a little bit tired

Yea we can criticize his foot work or lack thereof, but he makes up for it by his upper body movement, he always has. That head movement tho, sheesh..he went Ultra Instinct tonight.

Yeah. We used to s hit on him about lack of head movement and then post Trout dude’s defense has been tremendous. It’s genius considering he has slow feet and really brings out his naturally impressive handspeed and reflexes. His team has worked and refined his weaknesses into downright scary strengths.