Dmitry Bivol has 283 amateur fights and is 31 years old with a 9-0 record in championship fights.
What Canelo lacks in the amateurs, he made up for it by fighting a ton of tomato cans early in his career. At the age of 15 years old, boxers are in the amateurs. Canelo did not have that development. His training was fighting a bunch of guys with losing records as a teen.
Canelo was 23 years old and had 7 championship fights when he fought Mayweather but he had fought only 2 top 10 ranked opponents, Ryan Rhodes and Austin Trout. Bivol had fought Joe Smith Jr, Isaac Chilemba, Jean Pascal and Sullivan Barrera. That is a better resume than what Canelo had going into the Mayweather fight.
What Canelo lacks in the amateurs, he made up for it by fighting a ton of tomato cans early in his career. At the age of 15 years old, boxers are in the amateurs. Canelo did not have that development. His training was fighting a bunch of guys with losing records as a teen.
Canelo was 23 years old and had 7 championship fights when he fought Mayweather but he had fought only 2 top 10 ranked opponents, Ryan Rhodes and Austin Trout. Bivol had fought Joe Smith Jr, Isaac Chilemba, Jean Pascal and Sullivan Barrera. That is a better resume than what Canelo had going into the Mayweather fight.
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