Comments Thread For: Vitor Belfort: Canelo Will Not Fight Me At 185, I Promise You; He Will Not Have The Balls!

[PBR Streetgang]

Belfort calls out Canelo because he wants a pay day. He's not a good boxer, he's a washed up MMA fighter who's own game has passed him by. He's juiced to unreal levels. I don't take anything he says seriously...he's just desperate for relevance and big money fights...things he can't get in his sport and has no business getting in boxing.

[TMLT87]

I have heard of Vitor Belfort before, growing up. But I admit I did not know much about him and what was his level of success in MMA. I assumed it was very good but I assumed wrong I think. He has a ton of losses by TKO/Punches. I guess he is chasing money in boxing. I hope Canelo completely ignores him.

I am assuming in MMA if you lose 15-20 times you can still be considered “good”?

What I would consider to be good is like Jon Jones, GSP, Khabib, Usman, Covington, etc.

McGregor is 1-3 in his last 4 fights and is still ranked #9 at Lightweight. That would absolutely not happen in boxing. Boxing publications/journalists/fans drop top 3 boxers to #7-10 with 1 loss. A second loss would get them completely off the list. And going 1-3 would make fans/writers call for the boxer to retire. But in MMA, back to back brutal losses do not seem to affect a fighter’s ranking all that much?

Vitor was inconsistent but when he was on form he could be an absolute terror, he had a lot of longevity too. He hasnt been looked at as a legitimate top level threat since the month Floyd/Pac fought though, that was when he got a title shot, was stopped in the first round and never really came back from it.

As for Conor, not sure I agree with him being ranked top 10 still, but the losses are to the two best guys in that division. If all the top guys in boxing actually fought each other the way the top MMA guys do obviously most of them would have losses too. Another thing is MMA is just more volatile and unpredictable because of the rules so there are more upsets etc.