Fact or fiction: The catchweight benefits Canelo more than it does Floyd.

[Eg714]

It's a benefit to Floyd but Canelo could turn it around and make it a benefit to himself by coming in the best shape of his life for possibly the biggest fight he will ever be in.

[Khalid X]

so you can call losing via catchweight and making up excuses as benefits now?

Your missing the point.

I'm not talking about who has the disadvantage or advantage come fight night.....I'm saying that Canelo doesn't lose a thing regardless of how this fight plays out.

If he wins.....he is the face of boxing. If he loses, regardless of how bad....he has a built in excuse and he doesn't take a hit, marketability wise as GBP will just state he wasn't the same fighter and the weight affected him.

Hypothetically if this were at 154 and he got dominated.....then people would say Canelo is overrated and it would be hard for GBP to market him as the next star in boxing.

[Khalid X]

Well tough shyt floyd robbed himself of credit like he usually does.

I actaually agree. Floyd will get zero credit and like the other poster stated he is in a lose lose situation. Even if he wins, regardless of how he looks, people have an excuse to discredit his win (and rightfully so).

In this fight, Canelo has nothing to lose (marketability wise).

[boliodogs]

Listening to Canelo talk about the fight he tells it like hes the one that got over on Floyd by having it on 152. Hes seems to think it wont affect his preparation so I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Ill wait to see how the fight plays out before I start screaming weight drained.

I agree. Canelo is very professional in every way and he is not a BSer. If he says he will be in perfect shape at 152 I believe him. He knows his own body and he weighed 153 for Trout and looked like he carried more body fat than Trout. He will make weight in the right way with the help of a nutritionist. Lots of guys are saying when Mayweather wins instead of if Mayweather wins. If Mayweather thought it would be easy he would not have tried to get Canelo to come in as far below 154 as possible. Floyd has been at least a 4 to 1 betting favorite and sometimes a 7 to 1 betting favorite in all of his fights for many years. He is only a 2.5 to 1 favorite to win this fight. Canelo is a very live dog. I put my money on him.

[brick wall]

Your missing the point.

I'm not talking about who has the disadvantage or advantage come fight night.....I'm saying that Canelo doesn't lose a thing regardless of how this fight plays out.

If he wins.....he is the face of boxing. If he loses, regardless of how bad....he has a built in excuse and he doesn't take a hit, marketability wise as GBP will just state he wasn't the same fighter and the weight affected him.

Hypothetically if this were at 154 and he got dominated.....then people would say Canelo is overrated and it would be hard for GBP to market him as the next star in boxing.

that's bull*****...if he loses he would take a hit no matter what. he agreed to a catchweight and they're not making a big deal about it right now and up to the time of the fight so if he loses that's on him. if he uses it as an excuse later he would look like a hypocrite and ******.

never seen a fighter who agreed to a catchweight and lost but benefited from it after for his marketability.

[boliodogs]

Of course Canelo has something to lose. He is an undefeated fighter with only an early draw marring his record. He may not be as obbsessed about it as Floyd is but he wants to keep his 0. If Canelo loses this fight he will probably never get another fight with Floyd and it will go down in boxing history that Floyd was a better fighter than he was. Floyd wants to go down in history as the best of all time. Canelo wants the same thing. A loss is never a good thing no matter how you spin it.