Canelo's key to victory is DEFENSE, not offense

[Russian Crushin]

You can't win a fight with "defense".

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Marquez doesn't have Canelo's hand speed or defense. This is why although I give the edge to Mayweather, Canelo can cause him some trouble.

Marquez doesn't have Canelo's defense?


The only thing that Canelo has over Marquez is youth and size.

[cupocity303]

I believe this will be Canelo's gameplan actually, but I don't think it will be effective. Floyd won't budge and he'll do just enough to win the rounds if need be by fighting from a distance. Even a poised and smart veteran like Juan Manuel Marquez had to play the unfamiliar role of the aggressor eventually which lead to Floyd winning every single round.

Yes, but Marquez was too small and used to outboxing smaller 5'6-ish type of fighters. Canelo just gave a good account of himself against a 5'10 guy. Now if it was a 5'10 plodder who gives up his height and fights small, it would be one thing. But it was against a slick southpaw at that.

That's enough for me to know that he has what it takes to box with Floyd on even terms. Despite Floyd's greatness, he is overrated because of his defense, leading to a spill over in the offensive department. He is actually not that impressive offensively (not lately anyway) and I'd like to see how he lands effectively against a good defender. Floyd obviously is not an offensive-high-activity-rate type of puncher. This can make up for lack of clean landing in some cases. So what about trying to defend against whatever Floyd is trying to do instead of always looking to crack his defense and land on him. You're basically giving away half the advantage with that sort of mentality. Where does it say that Floyd wins the fight by default if you're not able to crack his defense. How about him trying to crack yours if you're set on actually DEFENDING and not trying to trap him against the ropes or going for broke with looping punches (a la Hatton).

[#YOLO]

Marquez doesn't have Canelo's defense?


The only thing that Canelo has over Marquez is youth and size.

Bad wording on my part, I don't think he has genius IQ or is a master counter puncher, but he has exceptional reflexes.

[cupocity303]

Marquez doesn't have Canelo's defense?


The only thing that Canelo has over Marquez is youth and size.

The more fair statement is that JMM doesn't have the same TYPE of defense as Alvarez. After the Trout fight, I jokingly stated that Canelo looked as if Pernell Whitaker had a son out of wedlock after having an affair with a white Mexican woman while on vacation.

[cupocity303]

Gatti was shot and waaaay past his prime. As is 99% of floyds opponents! Gatti C class....LOL!
Floyd Cherry picks weakness. Plain and simple. How great to you have to be to win fights like that!

That's all you got out of that post? Why so hostile? I wasn't fanboy-ing it up for Floyd now did I.

Deep breath, calm down.

[Boxing Bob]

Gatti was shot and waaaay past his prime. As is 99% of floyds opponents! Gatti C class....LOL!
Floyd Cherry picks weakness. Plain and simple. How great to you have to be to win fights like that!

all you ever have is ignorant I hate Floyd posts. You must use up a lot of your day just dreaming up dumb shyt to post on here.

I think Floyd was dating your sister and you got all giddy thinking Floyd was gonna be your brother in law. Then Floyd left a large deposit in her and never called again and you haven't forgiven him yet.

[PAC-BOY]

That's all you got out of that post? Why so hostile? I wasn't fanboy-ing it up for Floyd now did I.

Deep breath, calm down.

Not hostile. Big Gatti fan though! I hate that Floyd gets any credit for beating that version of Gatti. Gatti was in bad shape in that time of his career. In the Ring and mainly out the ring. I got side tracked at the end when reading that!

[Russian Crushin]

The more fair statement is that JMM doesn't have the same TYPE of defense as Alvarez. After the Trout fight, I jokingly stated that Canelo looked as if Pernell Whitaker had a son out of wedlock after having an affair with a white Mexican woman while on vacation.[/SIZE]

Trout was pawing and slapping, there's a reason his "defense" looked so much better in that fight, or even "good".

All that movement tired him out and he does not know how to transition from defense to offense. By the time he's done trying to slip punches, floyd will have landed what he needs to and will be on the other side of the ring by the time canelo decides to throw a punch

[IronDanHamza]

Trout was pawing and slapping, there's a reason his "defense" looked so much better in that fight, or even "good".

All that movement tired him out and he does not know how to transition from defense to offense. By the time he's done trying to slip punches, floyd will have landed what he needs to and will be on the other side of the ring by the time canelo decides to throw a punch

That's a good assesment. Good eye.