Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: Canelo is a Tougher Foe For Mayweather

[Lords]

I would be impressed if Canelo can somehow manage to steal 3 or more rounds off Floyd. I truely see this fight being an easy cruise to victory for Floyd with him winning 10 rounds followed by the haters saying catchweight being the reason Canelo got dominated. Canelo gets dominated at any weight by Floyd. He is just too slow and too flat footed to box Floyd.

[jso416]

I would be impressed if Canelo can somehow manage to steal 3 or more rounds off Floyd. I truely see this fight being an easy cruise to victory for Floyd with him winning 10 rounds followed by the haters saying catchweight being the reason Canelo got dominated. Canelo gets dominated at any weight by Floyd. He is just too slow and too flat footed to box Floyd.

Nah.. Canelo is just over hyped is all n Floyd knows it. Personally had him losing to Trout, no way he beats Floyd.

[jso416]

I disagree with Oscar.. Canelo doesn't have the experience, skill, hand speed or footspeed Oscar had when he fought Floyd. They're about even in stamina though.

[drool]

The question is.
Why is everyone ducking me. I asked every boxer to fight me, and they won't respond.
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[Alpha & Omega]

Oscar is a pisser lol, he says this every time lol. Funny though he never says it about non-Mexican fighters. After Floyd outclassed Mosley, Oscar said he was without a doubt the best fighter in the world. Every time he faces a Mexican though its the same, this is going to be tough for Floyd, etc. Make no mistake, I said a long time ago this was a tough fight for Floyd, Canelo is legit to me regardless of what people say. I mean it says a lot though that Floyd really truly has had only 2 competitive fights, JLC 1 and Oscar. People in hindsight keep thinking Cotto was a tough fight but watch it again, it really wasn't close at all. Cotto got maybe 3 rounds and that is generous actually. I think Canelo may be another competitive tough one but as I said, if he cannot hurt Floyd I just don't see how he can take him out of his game plan. Even if he does like Mosley did, look what happened? Dragon spitting fireballs mfs!! hahaha

Money May in Sept!

[SOPH~ REP.]

sounds like a broken record to me


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[BoxingFan82]

The stamina issue is being exaggerated because Floyd will not pressure him. I am going to act as though 2 pounds won't make a difference. We'll see. But this is not "Easy Money." Not this time.

If you watch the Canelo-Trout tape again, you'll see that Canelo was visibly fatigued by the sixth round in the Trout fight, yet very little happened in the first five rounds of the fight that would explain this except for the notion that Canelo simply isn't well conditioned.

Through the first five rounds, Canelo had thrown a whopping 159 punches. Trout was more active, throwing 263 punches. 178 of those were jabs, and most of them missed. Trout landed just 21 power shots through five, and you'd be hard pressed to find any that gave Canelo reason to think twice about his own offense.

Your comment implies that Canelo's obvious stamina problems are caused by a pressure fighter forcing him to fight at an uncomfortable pace, yet there's no evidence of that to be found in the Trout fight. In fact, you could argue that Canelo was able to maintain such a low punch output because Trout was not applying effective pressure and landing effective blows. For the most part, Trout was jabbing at air and Canelo was able to take off 2-2:30 of each round.

So why was Canelo fatigued so early in that fight if there was no external culprit, and why has he seemed to want to pace himself (fighting in spurts) as much as possible in his previous fights? It's quite simple: he's not built for endurance (he's naturally stocky), cuts 20+ pounds to make weight (not beneficial to conditioning) and probably doesn't focus nearly as much on cardio as he conceivably could (I doubt he's running 5-10 miles a day like Floyd says he did in his last training camp).

The idea that Canelo's stamina problems aren't his own is ridiculous, and if you think that Floyd, who landed 53 of 93 power punches on Guererro through the first five rounds of his last fight, is going to be easier on Canelo's heart than Trout, you're probably going to be sorely disappointed.

Every fighter who walks into the ring, including Canelo, has a chance, but the mental gymnastics people are performing to convince themselves that Canelo's lack of stamina is simply going to disappear when he steps into the ring in September are amazing.

Canelo can't outbox Floyd. If he's going to win, he's going to need to maintain effective pressure, land big blows to the body and take Floyd's control of the ring away. That will require far more energy, physical and mental, than Canelo has ever demonstrated he can expend.