Comments Thread For: Canelo: 'We'll See If It's True That I've Lost A Step' Against Charlo

[JuniorTorres720]

Everybody keeps saying, "Charlo's the bigger man. Canelo is small. Etc." Yes, Canelo is technically the smaller man in appearance. But he's used to fighting at 168 and Charlo is not. I don't care how big Charlo is, he's never competed professionally at 168 pounds. There's a difference. Canelo is acclimated to the weight but he's also trying to push the narrative that he's the smaller man even going as far as saying he's a smaller 154 pounder. He's fought at 168 consistently. Charlo has not. There's a difference.

[TonyRespectful]

Hey Dummy,Canelo isn’t having anybody fight each other !It’s PBC ! Al Haymon ! ***** at Al !

[Jab jab boom]

We already know it’s true and so does canelo. That’s why he’s fighting jmw Charlo and not Benavidez.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Andrade and Benavdiez are PBC and already in 168. Since they are all lames including the Charlos to Canelo fanboys, why is he pulling up the 2 with ZERO fights at 168 and having the established 168s fight each other?

Here is a quiz:

What would be the odds on the books if it was Benavidez/Andrade vs Charlos?

Obviously because people have been whining for him to fight Charlo for years, while Charlo has been sitting around holding up his division and being allowed to retain his 160 belt for 2+ years. Is it Canelo's fault that Charlo hasn't been staying active? No. So Canelo had a chance to take out one of the overrated guys that his haters have been clamoring for him to fight. Of course he's going to do so on his terms. People that hate him aren't going to be satisfied no matter what he does. Also not his fault that Charlo couldn't even get it up for the fight he has been sitting around waiting for while holding up his own division, so his brother had to step in, at the cost of one of his own belts. You want to blame anyone for the situation, talk to Jermall.

He doesn't want to fight Andrade ever, because of Andrade's part behavior. Andrade is also really over hyped. Do you even know the name of the guy he won his 160 title against? Or any of the guys who he defended against? Then he ran from Janibek. How many of those guys were ranked? He hasn't beaten a single actual world champion. Not one. Most of his fights have been snoozefests against mediocre opposition.

Benavidez has been calling Canelo out, but hasn't done anything to actually secure a title shot. All he's done is drop his title twice, and avoid two fights that might have gotten him a mandatory shot. He could have gone after the WBO to secure the next title shot. Or Morrell, to take the WBA line. Or petitioned the IBF to have his match with Plant a title eliminator. Staying with the WBC means he can't fight Bivol, for instance, and that he'll likely never get his mandatory ordered. WBC can't even order it until after WBA and IBF get their turns. Taking the Morrell fight, that his own manager and father said they had a contract for, would have given him the next mandatory shot at Canelo, and leverage to go for Beterbiev. Taking the Ryder fight before Canelo would have given him the WBO shot. Etc. Instead, he's going after Munguía. Ask yourself why?

If Canelo fights Benavidez before satisfying his WBA and IBF requirements, both those organizations will strip his belts. They want their cut also of the Canelo cash cow.
Both WBA and WBC have a past history of failing to order title consolidations because then they lose another "champion" paying them sanctioning fees. Boxing is a corrupt sport. Follow the money and you'll know why things are and aren't happening.

That being said, his other two fights at PBC had better be Morrell and Benavidez, or I'll be calling him out too. Just not sure how he fights Benavidez without satisfying his IBF obligations.

[Monty Fisto]

He'll be a disgrace to boxing if he fails to knockout a 154lber who never even fought at 168lbs his whole life. Not to mention Charlo is coming off a 16 month layoff without a tuneup fight to acclimate to the new weight class.

This is the funadmental problem with the fight. As ODLH suggested, Canelo is on a bit of a hiding to nothing. If he wins easily, then everyone points to the those precise factors that you highlight. If Canelo loses, then it looks even worse because of those same factors. If Canelo wins after a proper fight and a bit of a scare then it continues to fuel the narrative about losing a step... Because of those factors.

It's not a terrible matchup and maybe they'll prove me wrong and put on a great fight that dispels all these concerns, but it's not the best fight that was out there for Canelo.

[joseph5620]

Same height, not same size you dumb ass, imbecile, ******, idiotic mother***er. Canelo has more Widht, Muscle mass. Know how to ***en read.

Then you should have never compared Canelo's height to fighters multiple divisions below him you ignorant fool. Height has nothing to do with a weight division. It's irrelevant..Moron.

[SplitSecond]

Everybody keeps saying, "Charlo's the bigger man. Canelo is small. Etc." Yes, Canelo is technically the smaller man in appearance. But he's used to fighting at 168 and Charlo is not. I don't care how big Charlo is, he's never competed professionally at 168 pounds. There's a difference. Canelo is acclimated to the weight but he's also trying to push the narrative that he's the smaller man even going as far as saying he's a smaller 154 pounder. He's fought at 168 consistently. Charlo has not. There's a difference.

So Canelo is the smaller man, but he’s used to fighting bigger men, thus he is a bigger man? Not good for Charlo I guess, as he’s also “technically” a bigger man.

Interesting thing about giant slayers, they’re usually taken out by smaller guys. Smaller guys bring the speed, movement and boxing ability that a lot of the bigger guys lack. And that’s why so many trainer’s (like Emanuel Steward) say that at heavyweight, you can pick up boxing late, it’s not as big a deal.

So if Charlo can be faster, make Canelo have to move quicker, work more, and use the usually superior little man skills, maybe, who knows. Sometimes guys, once they move up in weight, forget what it’s like to fight guys with more speed.

[Jdasilva2012]

I have a gut feeling that Canelo's stamina is going to produce scary moments late in the fight of even losing the fight if he don' take Jermell out in the first half of the fight.

[Jdasilva2012]

It's obvios that Canelo is ducking Benavidez and there is a change that now he loses to a cherry picked Charlo and then it becomes easier to make the Benavidez, only to lose to Benavidez too.

[turnedup]

Well the reynosos have not had a fighter fail a ped test lately so maybe they finally got it right on their Guinea pigs. Expect this dude roided to the gills.