Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Canelo Alvarez is the puncher in the Edgar Berlanga fight; naming the two best gameplans in boxing history

[Claude Palle]

would love to see it also..but it is IMPOSSIBLE! Berlanga power is seriously overrated with all the tomato cans he was fed early in his career. One ko in last 5 or 6. No way he dents Canelo chin which withstood 36 rds of bombs from heavy handed GGG!!

Agreed. This fight looks like a beatdown with Berlanga getting stopped within 8.

[Smash]

Canelo is not afraid to lose that 0. .

no point in being afraid to lose something u dont have i suppose

[PRvazquez]

no point in being afraid to lose something u dont have i suppose

That means he is out here getting busy smart ass. When he retires he would have accomplished more than your favorite fighter. You have to respect him.

[elfag]

breadman saying that boots is nearly as good as roy jones... is this satire? are you ***ing kidding me? come on dude. then he complains when "trolls" disagree with him.. no you are just ******ed and those are the sane ones

[BrankoB]

breadman saying that boots is nearly as good as roy jones... is this satire? are you ***ing kidding me? come on dude. then he complains when "trolls" disagree with him.. no you are just ******ed and those are the sane ones

Breadman is heavily invested in Boots because he feels like he discovered him (or something of that nature) which makes him very emotional and therefore irrational to the point where he is comparing him to Roy Jones. I remember a few years ago, when nobody knew about Boots, Breadman was singing his praises to the point where some of the forum members started comparing him with the actual great / accomplished fighters and imagining outcomes of hypothetical fights. I remember reading the posts and thinking "who the hell is this guy that nobody knows about and hasn't beaten anyone". Anyway the story continued and quite often we start talking about Boots being an all time great, winning undisputed titles in multiple weight divisions - and yet, for all his talent and natural ability he has never fought a champion, any champion, even a mediocre, email champion.

Let's not give him knighthood until he actually proves himself in the ring against worthy adversaries.

[The D3vil]

I don't know, man, I think Bivol has got to be heavily favored against a 40 year old Beterbiev coming off of a big injury.

I could easily see Bivol outboxing a diminished Beterbiev in a pretty uneventful fight.

[greeneye99]

That means he is out here getting busy smart ass. When he retires he would have accomplished more than your favorite fighter. You have to respect him.

Bro
You keep saying
"I'm Not a Canelo Fan"
But
You got 3 or 4 Post defending him & the same amount praising him
Make up your mind
Lololololol

[Jab jab boom]

Canelo be out there fighting guys at least. Not this once a year BS. He is actually holding up the sport. Everyone wants a piece of his ginger ass. If they want him ...... they need to prove it. I'm not a Canelo fan . But I do respect him

Holding up the sport? Why because he fights a whopping 2 times a year against opponents that no one really cares to watch him fight? He’s actually failed the sport in multiple ways. An entitled proven cheater, who benefits from corruption from both judges and title organizations, who avoids the real threats that he should be fighting, who demands more money thatn he deserves to only generate around half a mil ppv buys or less. Canelo and his fans are a cancer to boxing and are a reason why real fights don’t get made.

[PRvazquez]

Bro
You keep saying
"I'm Not a Canelo Fan"
But
You got 3 or 4 Post defending him & the same amount praising him
Make up your mind
Lololololol

No I respect him you dummy . That's why you why you so excited and want to retort to my statements. Hes the best in the sport right now . Everyone wants him . Now deal with with your insecurities. Nope I'm not a fan . You are just a typical hater of the sport . Always downing it. Hes the top dog . Deal with it or go read a magazine or something

[Left Hook Louie]

As the Famous Quote says....
Keep Hope Alive!
But that ain't gonna happen Buddy

Probably not.
Once, though, long ago, Mike Tyson was brutally KOd by Buster Douglas.
It wasn't supposed to happen. But it did.
One could even argue that Tyson-Douglas was seen as more of a mismatch than Canelo-Berlanga.
But then reality overcame the conventional wisdom at the Tokyo Dome when Iron Mike was on all fours groping for his mouthpiece while the ref counted him out.
I watched it live on HBO in disbelief because it wasn't supposed to happen. But it did.
So yeah, Canelo will probably win.
Just saying shee-it happens. I have no investment in either Canelo or Berlanga, but I would love to see the improbable happen again, if only for the fun of seeing the smarties run around like chickens with their heads cut off.