It's hard to duck someone when you're retired, in your 40s, and your last fight was like three or four weight classes under that of the opponent, who you already absolutely dominated.
Weird idea for a matchup. I don't think of Pacquaio as a true welterweight. His frame is tiny. He's a 135 or a 140 guy fundamentally, who's moved up to take on greater challenges and more opportunity -- just as SRR moved up for similar reasons to MW, where he was great, but no longer invincible.
I don't see Pac Man beating the best welters such as SRR, Leonard, Hearns...or Mayweather. Or Duran for that matter, though he was a true LW.
Versus Pac, both Spence and Crawford would be able to pace the fight and set the terms of engagement. They would be the ones to decide when and where it's time to pop. Both guys have enough power and snap to make Pac slow up and start thinking. Not his best suit.
Floyd was so good he didn't want to take a knee because he wanted to stay in there with him as long as possible.
I love this.
And Floyd was so good against Cotto, he had to switch trainers after the fight and adopt a more evasive defense.
Cotto took a knee against Pacqauio because he hated to see that kind of unsophisticated boxing.
Canelo can't afford to do anything else. His reputation is already in tatters after being dirty, pulling out of the rematch and getting a gift draw in the eyes of most people.
If he wanted to redeem himself, he had little choice. Same reason he had to give GGG a very good %. It isn't charity, so he wasn't just trying get the fight done. He needs this for his career moving forward.
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Lemme see, has anyone ever called out a fighter, the fighter responds to say let's fight; and then demanded $50 million, the fighter delivers the money; and then demanded that the fight take place in his home country, the fighter agrees to travel -- and then decides NOT to fight after all?
The rematch wasn’t as blatant in favour of Canelo like in the first fight. It would have been bad for the sport if there was another 10-2 scorecard for Canelo without earning it or like the Judge who scored it a draw in the first fight who gave Canelo the 7th. The optics would look bad but him getting the W in a fight most felt was a draw at best or a Canelo loss just is further evidence of the favoutism Canelo receives even if the fight was scored closely, suprise suprise it still ended in Canelos favour
Whether you feel it was a robbery or not I think along with most fans / media that Golovkin won both fights. But as I said for some odd reason the judges always tend to side with Canelo and the pattern is 1 gives him the rounds just for showing up and a second 1 will give him every benefit to get the rounds needed for a win which almost guarantees him a W.
I’m talking how in every fight if it goes to the scorecards with a outcome that isn’t dominated by Canelo, he almost always has at least 1 super wide scorecard in his favour almost without fail that doesn’t represent what happend in the actual fight
Whether it’s the 6 rounds Canelo got against Mayweather , The 9 rounds he got against Lara , The 10 rounds he got against Golovkin in the first fight or the dishonest scorecards Canelo received against Trout / Cotto.
Without fail Canelo has never been on the receiving end of 1 bad scorecard in his entire career which is f.ucking mind boggling literally he’s the only boxer I can think of who hasn’t had a bad scorecard so far in his entire career. Doesn’t that seem odd
Follow the money. It's really that simple.
Nice troll try, I guess. If not, here's a level set:
Canelo and GB are douchey, but the clenbuterol may have come from Mexican beef. It happens, a lot.
Golovkin is 36 and isn't knocking out Canelo, who can seriously take a punch. In fact, neither guy is getting KTFO.
This fight will be decided by judges. At least one of the judges, like in every other Canelo Alvarez fight, will be on the GoldenBoy payroll and will turn in a ridiculously unfair pro-Canelo card no matter what happens in the ring.
Golovkin will not win.
Sugar Ray Leonard vs floyd Mayweather jr
Nah. Floyd was great at the lower weights. He wasn't on Leonard's level at 147.
Anyway, almost everyone considers Sugar Ray Robinson the greatest welterweight of all time. (Though I'm partial to Leonard, myself.)