Comments Thread For: Kovalev: If Canelo Gave Me One More Month of Rest, Result Would Have Been the Same as Bivol's

[just the facts]

While the short camp was bu!!shyte on Canelo’s part. I doubt it makes any difference. The tools Bivol used to EASILY beat Canelo, Kovalev doesn’t have.

[HeadShots]

Kovalev has a leaky defense though and his chin is glass. Ward rocked and stopped him.

[Roadblock]

Accurate. Kovalev was winning before he decided to take the dive lol

Lots of guys are winning and get their lights turned off, Kov might beat him if he don't get caught because his brain gets put off line, that's boxing.

[Boxing Logic]

Easy solution to this. Just do the rematch at cruiserweight, or a 190 lbs catch weight.

[Oldskoolg]

thats where canelo went wrong, maybe he started buying into his own hype and thought he could beat a proper prime champion with out catchweights/reduced preparation time but obviously he couldnt, and in fact he ended up getting completely embarrassed

Canelo clearly bought into his own hype. That’s what happens when the boxing media and establishment crowns someone “the face of boxing” and then protects him with skewered judging and the frets outrageous pay packages just so other networks and promoters don’t have the chance to. Let’s be honest here, Canelo is clearly a top ten of the current era guy but you had people claiming he was the greatest Mexican fighter ever, stoping boxing programs to show him walking in and seated when he wasn’t even on the card etc etc. you had geeked out fans calling him “godnelo” and the like. How could he not buy into his Prince Akim like treatment

[archiemoore1]

Sorry Kov, 9 weeks between fights may be "crazy", as u call it, by modern standards. But in years past, fighters fought every few days sometimes. So now u wanna be a diva and a crybaby, saying it was too soon. What happened to fighters who stay in shape in- between fights, that don't ever have to drop 25 lbs to get ready for any fight? So your problem is lack of dedication and conditioning. U only train when u get the call for a fight. And in between calls, ur drinking potato vodka and probably sniffing blow too

[Caxcan]

Canelo never had a problem with fighting Kovalev with a longer training camp despite the phony hater narratives claiming the contrary. He had approached Kovalev with an offer 6 months prior but Kovalev said he preferred fighting Yarde first and put the fight off until afterward. Meanwhile it was DAZN not Canelo that selected the fight date. If he was unhappy, he could have passed and hoped to reschedule later knowing Canelo badly wanted it but opted to go through with it.

The situation wasn't even optimal from Canelo's end because up until he secured the win over Yarde, it was uncertain of whether Canelo would indeed be facing Kovalev at 175 or stay at 160. So not a lot of time to prepare for a huge leap in weight. At any rate, Canelo looked more on point than against Bivol and was beating him to the punch with swift hard counters that had Kovalev reluctant to open up and eventually broke him down. Kovalev was coming off beating two undefeated top 10 light heavies yet was taken out by the smaller man.

[TernceBudCharlo]

Canelo never had a problem with fighting Kovalev with a longer training camp despite the phony hater narratives claiming the contrary. He had approached Kovalev with an offer 6 months prior but Kovalev said he preferred fighting Yarde first and put the fight off until afterward. Meanwhile it was DAZN not Canelo that selected the fight date. If he was unhappy, he could have passed and hoped to reschedule later knowing Canelo badly wanted it but opted to go through with it.

The situation wasn't even optimal from Canelo's end because up until he secured the win over Yarde, it was uncertain of whether Canelo would indeed be facing Kovalev at 175 or stay at 160. So not a lot of time to prepare for a huge leap in weight. At any rate, Canelo looked more on point than against Bivol and was beating him to the punch with swift hard counters that had Kovalev reluctant to open up and eventually broke him down. Kovalev was coming off beating two undefeated top 10 light heavies yet was taken out by the smaller man.

Please stop defending this fight, this weekends fight was proof that that Kovalev fight was the most fraudulent fight in ages. Conelo gets humiliated by any top LHW.

[KillaMane26]

He chose to take the fight so I don't want to hear those excuses

[Roadblock]

Sorry Kov, 9 weeks between fights may be "crazy", as u call it, by modern standards. But in years past, fighters fought every few days sometimes. So now u wanna be a diva and a crybaby, saying it was too soon. What happened to fighters who stay in shape in- between fights, that don't ever have to drop 25 lbs to get ready for any fight? So your problem is lack of dedication and conditioning. U only train when u get the call for a fight. And in between calls, ur drinking potato vodka and probably sniffing blow too

The training is a lot more sophisticated, the old days they would train at pretty much one level and fought easy fights frequently, a fighter today cannot train to today's intensity and ramping for 18-20 weeks straight without being stale, staying in shape and peaking are 2 very different spaces with different effects on the body.