Comments Thread For: Canelo Says He was Blindsided By Reynoso's Cruiserweight Request

[Get em up]

Simple and short, you can't keep four belts hostage, while going up in weight to fight a nobody, at least vacate two titles, and entice Charlo and Andrade to move up to 168 and capture the vacant belts.

The problem with this is Andrade nor Charlo would move up to fight for a vacant title. They aren't moving up to 168 without the Canelo payday. Both guys are holding their titles at 160 with both hands screaming their the best at 160 and refusing to fight each other.

[Boxingfanatic75]

1. Would bringing up GGG (age 40 in April) to 168 be considered a "cherry-pick?"
2. Would fighting Beterbiev (age 37 in January) at 175 be a harder challenge, than fighting David Benavidez (age 25) at 168?

As to #2 no. I don’t know why people have this fantasy chubby over Benevidez. I truly don’t. He’s custom made for Canelo. Benevidez loops his punches and that ripe for an elite counter power puncher such as Canelo. Canelo has him in footwork. Canelo has him in ring IQ. Canelo has him in defense. Speed and power are probably on par. Canelo’s chin has been tested. Canelo has him in level of opposition.

I don’t see any scenario where Benevidez beats Canelo.

[Boxingfanatic75]

For the exception of a potential foray into the Heavyweight division; Hopefully, Canelo retires after this Makabu fight because there is absolutely no demand or buzz about it from average boxing fans.

If he is not going to give us boxing fans the fights that they want to see then why keep fighting? Oh how I miss the days of Oscar De La Hoya, Pernell Whitaker and Sugar Ray Leonard.

They gave us boxing fans the fights that we wanted to see no matter what the cost and they all took risks.

Why does HE have to give us the fights? He’s fought the best competition out there as compared to every other boxer. Why is it he, he, he? He s h it. How about all the others get off their a s s e s and fight their best competition? How about all the others put
in the work Canelo did to even warrant holding onto Canelo’s jock strap? How about all the others stop with this 0 fantasy and fight amongst themselves to EARN their spot? Canelo doesn’t owe s h it to anyone. He is now on cruise control for legacy and now going to do his own thing while the others fight for scraps to approach daddy’s table.

[Bronx2245]

Simple and short, you can't keep four belts hostage, while going up in weight to fight a nobody, at least vacate two titles, and entice Charlo and Andrade to move up to 168 and capture the vacant belts.

I would love to see Charlo vs. Morrell Jr. for the WBA "Super" SMW Champion!

[Bronx2245]

As to #2 no. I don’t know why people have this fantasy chubby over Benevidez. I truly don’t. He’s custom made for Canelo. Benevidez loops his punches and that ripe for an elite counter power puncher such as Canelo. Canelo has him in footwork. Canelo has him in ring IQ. Canelo has him in defense. Speed and power are probably on par. Canelo’s chin has been tested. Canelo has him in level of opposition.

I don’t see any scenario where Benevidez beats Canelo.

I would agree that Canelo would be favored due to experience, but Benavidez is a dog, and I would love to see the fight @ 168 or 175!

[champion4ever]

I would love to see Charlo vs. Morrell Jr. for the WBA "Super" SMW Champion!

David Morrell, Jr is yet still green don't you think? The kid has had only six professional prizefights.

[Jab jab boom]

Reynoso has been a master of minimizing risk while maximizing rewards for years. He assess the champions and sees which would pose the least risk whether it be based on age or prior performances that show vulnerability. That’s why a fight with fielding happened, that’s why a fight with Kovalev happened, it’s why the move to unify at 168 happened and why this next fight is happening. Canelo has 100% confidence in who Reynoso selects because of this. They also know that their fan base is too ****** to realize what’s happening nor do they understand that fighting better opposition is a smaller weight class is better than facing a lesser opponent who’s bigger.

[Cortez]

It's no problem canelo can easily add 30lbs of pure muscle to his body in a few months almost like he is not human

[archiemoore1]

I know Morrell is only 6-0, but he's not what u would call green. He's not your average 6-0 guy. It's easy to see that he's a real threat to anyone at or near his weight, no matter who tf it is

[✔ (Low- )]

Canelo should forget about Makabu. It's a risky fight that he will get little credit for, just because the guy is pretty much an unknown

The usual haters are ignoring the vast size disadvantage Canelo is here, and criticize him for choosing Makabu as if Canelo was some career cruiserweight avoiding Briedis or something.

Schmanelo has been beating up CW during sparring lol...at some point talent trumps size plus 190 isn't CW..hakunamatata is coming in drained