Comments Thread For: Photos: Canelo Alvarez, Jermell Charlo - Face To Face at New York Presser

[Oracle01]

They showed each other great respect. Good stuff.

It was boring. Charlo is just grateful he has been given the pay day. Wearing big ass boots also, its not height divisions, Canelo is much thicker. He better show up and fight at least.

[mjh1969]

I think Charlo walks around at 180-185 easy. He won't have to weight cut as much to fight Canelo. I think he comes in at 165-166lbs on fight night to fight Canelo. Canelo was in the 154 lb division for a while before moving up two divisions. I think Canelo ate himself up to 168 lbs. Boxing isn't always about weight as much as it is skills. There are weight divisions for a reason but when they both come in at close weights, to me it becomes more skill based. I hope that Charlo's trainer does his homework on Canelo and him and Charlo draw up a nice game plan on fight night. If Charlo goes in there wanting to test his power and stand toe to toe with Canelo then he will get caught, hurt and possibly stopped. If Charlo goes in there, moves, boxes, works behind a good jab and has great stamina then he can beat Canelo. This is when skill matters more.

[DeaconFrost]

Charlo's last big pay day. Maybe his only big pay day? I always wondered what his purses were in the past.

[boxingitis]

Canelo is the lumberjack and Charlo is the tree.

[SUBZER0ED]

Super UNexcited for this fight. Don't see point or sense other than make money.

Interesting how Charlo was managing to shrink himself to 154
...and interesting to see if his power goes up with weight division. My guess, it will not.

Why? we've seen much worse match ups than this. It'll be interesting to see how the younger, skilled Charlo measures up to the naturally smaller and aging but still quite dangerous Canelo.

[SplitSecond]

Charlo’s already solid, while Canelo is looking chubby.

[Corelone]

Canelo is looking timid.

[factsarenice]

Charlo isn't great, he's good, and his ability to shrink-down to 154 allows him to over powering smaller guys late. At 168 Charlo doesn't have that advantage and that's why he's on the menu. It's an ok fight while it lasts but I'm not paying for it.

[nghtmr111]

Why? we've seen much worse match ups than this. It'll be interesting to see how the younger, skilled Charlo measures up to the naturally smaller and aging but still quite dangerous Canelo.

This is much better than Canelo vs Khan or Spence vs Mikey!

[j0zef]

This is much better than Canelo vs Khan or Spence vs Mikey!

Apt comparisons.