Canelo jumping up higher weight classes

This is going to diminish Roy Jones jr’s heavyweight belt. I remember the days when people used to speak with mystique over Roy grabbing a heavyweight belt as a career middleweight. It was a massive accomplishment. To this day I applaud it, and still respect what he did. Now? Things have changed. Haters are out in force to let everyone know, it is not ok anymore to grab a belt in a higher weight class, unless it’s against the top dog. This new understanding means Roy’s accomplishment is collateral damage. As everyone knows he grabbed a heavyweight belt by beating John the Quiet Man Ruiz when there were real killers at that weight, which of course he didn’t want none of. No one questioned him as he went back down to 175lbs, and understood why he left, and didn’t hold it against him. Canelo isn’t afforded this luxury. Canelo jumping up to Cruiserweight against the WBC champion, as a 5’7” middleweight is nothing special now because it’s not against the top ranked champion. Now, there are rumblings that he’ll reach for a heavyweight title, if the 4 belts change hands in the future. Naturally, haters are laying the ground work, ready to say of course he’s going up against a weak champion, thus reminding us all that Roy did this once, and Roy was applauded over such a tactic once upon a time. Not anymore.