Was Canelo really a "kid" when he faced Floyd?

[Oracle01]

He was a 22 year kid who was really inexperienced. He wasn't like he who is today. Still a good win for Mayweather, but its not the be all end all like a lot of people think it is.

In a few years he will have been 18 when he fought Floyd. He was 23, and no boxer in history previously has been called inexperienced with 42 pro fights. Floyd was a level above even at 36. I think he still beats his ass today.

[El_Maldito_Rey]

He was young and inexperienced. Have them go to the ring right now. Tom Brady still competing at top form at 45, no reason why Gayweather can't do it, especially for someone that claims to be a defensive wizard that never took any damage. Let them fight right now. Canelo's on record saying he wants to fight him again.

[4truth]

It’s not Floyd fans beliefs that’s the issue. It’s posters like you that make up stuff like “making 154 was already a struggle” that they accept as truth solely to discredit, even though that statement is blatantly false.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/sports/boxing/la-xpm-2013-sep-13-la-sp-mayweather-alvarez-notes-20130914-story.html%3f_amp=true

In The article above :

Making 152 pounds was “easy. I reached weight yesterday, and reached it today,” Alvarez said in Spanish to an interpreter.

you know better than this. This is similar to fighter like Kovalev insisting before his fight with Canelo that there were no weight clauses and that everything was fine.
explain please why 165, not 170+

[LeOoze]

He was young and inexperienced. Have them go to the ring right now. Tom Brady still competing at top form at 45, no reason why Gayweather can't do it, especially for someone that claims to be a defensive wizard that never took any damage. Let them fight right now. Canelo's on record saying he wants to fight him again.

Canelo wants to fight a fighter who has never weighed above 155 in the ring?

[Shadoww702]

What beat Canelo is the style match up. Trying to out box or out counter punch the master boxer was not going to work. Canelo has greatly improve and now actually pressures more as he did with Smith and Plant.

This! His game plan was dog sht! And someone from his team should of slapped him for thinking he could out box and out counter Floyd. That was one of the DUMBEST game plans I've ever seen.

[Shadoww702]

You really think in Canelo’s team’s objective to preserve his professional record that this experience is equal to the risks an amateur fighter takes? Canelo’s resume is littered with slow, small, lethargic dead men made to order. Mayweather had gone through the trials of facing other sharp, fast, hungry etc fighters.

maybe if Canelo was fighting a bum like Genaro Hernandez(like he was for the bum Trout). Sure, enough experience for that. Not a top 2 p4p fighter.

Wait what??? U consider Lara, Saunders, and Plant?? Slow??

Unless your talking before Floyd then yes I agree.

I consider those three slick boxers and the reason why I don't want him to fight another one next like Bivol or Andrade.

I want to see him with a ****er next like Benavidez, Charlo, or Biterbiev.

I hope the CW guy loses. I don't want him go to CW.

I think it messes him up like it did Roy when he went to HW and then going back down.

[Marchegiano]

Yeah but Floyd tried him as an adult anyway.



This has always been a dumb ass topic.

[The Big Dunn]

you know better than this. This is similar to fighter like Kovalev insisting before his fight with Canelo that there were no weight clauses and that everything was fine.
explain please why 165, not 170+

Now you’re doubling down and pivoting to something else rather than admitting you’re wrong.

Guys like you are the issue. You guys lie and blame Floyd fans knowing There is a segment of easily manipulated dipsh-ts that will co-sign any garbage that denigrates any win he has.

Canelo just lost to a better boxer. It happens. Now if you have an issue with 152 because it’s a cw, fine. Just don’t lie that Canelo was struggling to make 154.

[The Big Dunn]

He was young and inexperienced. Have them go to the ring right now. Tom Brady still competing at top form at 45, no reason why Gayweather can't do it, especially for someone that claims to be a defensive wizard that never took any damage. Let them fight right now. Canelo's on record saying he wants to fight him again.

43 pro fights, including 6 title fights is Inexperienced? Lmfao.

Canelo just wasn’t good enough to beat old Floyd. No shame because better men than Canelo couldn’t either.

Discussing a rematch is a waste of time because Canelo will probably get caught using PED’s or a banned substance before the fight and cause it to be canceled.

[GrandpaBernard]

He was a young lion who had the opportunity to propel himself to stardom by beating an old lion. It is an opportunity many have grabbed in the past, but he failed so had to do things the hard way.

Alvarez became a star anyways without taking the torch from Floyd