No other fighters are taking risks like Canelo, Usyk and Lomachenko

[-Kev-]

And I respect all 3 of them for taking big risks but at the end of the day Bud vs. Spence is just as big a risk as any of those fights.

Oh man look at this. Terence Crawford is taking his complementary risk that he takes every 5 years. We should all be so appreciative that Crawford is gracing us with his risky fight at 34 years old. About damn time.

[PRINCEKOOL]

No one take risks like those 3 as consistently as they do.

Compare Canelo’s resume at 31 to all other active fighter’s resumes. No one is doing that. This guy is only 31. You can’t tell me in the last 5 years, that there is another fighter who has taken more risks than Canelo.

You can tell me other fighters take risks. But you can’t tell me other fighters take more risks than Canelo. How many top 10 fighters has Canelo fought starting from The Ring #4 ranked Ryan Rhodes at 154 when he was 21 years old to The Ring #2 ranked fighter at 175? How many fighters have fought and beaten that many top 10 fighters in a span of 10 years like that?

And he is not even done. The guy is going to rematch the man who just dominated him worse than Mayweather did.

Alvarez started fighting fighters his own size. I would not describe his middle run of fights, dramatic risks. He was just doing what all champions do, fight contenders. Alvarez has always been a middle weight.

I would say, the Sergey Kovalev fight was the last big risk before last night Alvarez took.

Tyson Fury when he faced Deontay Wilder for the first time, for me was a bigger risk than anything Alvarez has ever done. Taking into consideration his lay off, and the universal perception of Wilder at that time, it was a extremely big risk.

I get what you are saying, but other fighters have also been taking risks.

So yes, Alvarez takes risks but he is not the only fighter who does etc.

[TernceBudCharlo]

Oh man look at this. Terence Crawford is taking his complementary risk that he takes every 5 years. We should all be so appreciative that Crawford is gracing us with his risky fight at 34 years old. About damn time.

You seriously can't argue now that Smith/Plant/BJS are more of a risk that Porter/Brook (yes even that Kell Book)/even mean machine. It's a complete joke.

[IronDanHamza]

What about Tyson Fury?

[-Kev-]

You seriously can't argue now that Smith/Plant/BJS are more of a risk that Porter/Brook (yes even that Kell Book)/even mean machine. It's a complete joke.

Kell Brook was not ever ranked in the top 10 at 147-160 when Crawford fought him. Neither was Khan.

Jacobs/Kovalev/Smith/Plant/BJS/Bivol are far better fighters than Brook/Khan/Horn/Kavaliouskas/ Benavidez Jr/Indongo.

No one, aside from like 3-4 other Canelo critics, is going to agree with what you just said. And no one except maybe Terence Crawford’s mom thinks Crawford has a better resume than Canelo. Not even close.

[Babadoux]

People go overboard when a fighter loses. Canelo was challenging himself and daring to be great but he fell short last night. He's not a legitimate lightheavyweight, if anything I think this exposes his fight against Kovalev as great match making, but he's still #1 at 168lbs and a top p4p fighter.

[BodyBagz]

No other fighters are consistently taking risks like Canelo, Usyk and Lomachenko.

Critics of these fighters is why boxing is at the bottom of all sports. Fighters who are doing big things for the sport get hated on. Those who take risks and fight the best consistently. These guys are hated on and not given any credit for what they do.

I remember when Usyk beat AJ, all critics can talk about is how overrated AJ is, instead of talking about how great Usyk is.

It’s the same BS every time. Either sh/t on the loser or sh/t on the winner.

I see fans using this loss to Bivol, to talk about how Canelo would have also lost to Andrade, Benavidez, and Charlo.

Well damn. That’s all you have to do to rack up L’s? So all Canelo had to do in his career is fight Dmitry Bivol and his entire career could have been judged based on that.

Bivol beat Canelo, now everyone and their mother’s can. The most amusing part is that Bivol, who clearly beat Canelo by outlanding him with the better power punches, is somehow proof that Trout, Lara, GGG all beat Canelo. Like it re-affirmed those “robberies”…as if Trout, Lara and GGG did anything remotely close to what Bivol did. No where near what he did.

And their fans love it that way
They rather hype their guy beating the likes of Kamil, Rolls, Horn, Brook......

[Hype job]

Alvarez started fighting fighters his own size.

Canelo's last ten opponents have all been bigger than him.

Alvarez has always been a middle weight.

No he hasn't. He started at 140 and had a very significant run of fights at 147 and below 154. Stop talking utter nonsense. Most of his recent opponents were full fledged middleweights since the amateurs.

[Mammoth]

I see fans using this loss to Bivol, to talk about how Canelo would have also lost to Andrade, Benavidez, and Charlo.

I agree. Canelo still beats those guys. Bivol was still bigger and better. Guys who test themselves will lose eventually. 3rd GGG fight for Canelo looks like a smart move right now.

[Smash]

Canelo's last ten opponents have all been bigger than him.



No he hasn't. He started at 140 and had a very significant run of fights at 147 and below 154. Stop talking utter nonsense. Most of his recent opponents were full fledged middleweights since the amateurs.

nelo hasnt fought at welter since 2010 as far as i can see