Comments Thread For: Canelo Still Firm on 155-Pounds For Golovkin Showdown

[hitking]

A-side has spoken.

[Uncle Rodge]

I think we can all agree Canelo is scared to death?

What a waste of time.

[hitking]

Well it looks like Canelo will be stripped of his title. It sucks that you're willing to have your title taken away from you because of weight. I still don't understand the logic. Canelo says he is not a middleweight but when he fights he's over that limit. I just don't get it.

Canelo ain't gone be stripped of ****. And even if he does, who cares. But with the WBC's history. And what they've done recently when it relates to already going back on their word that GGG had to be next for the Nelo-Cotto winner. And then making Garcia-Guerrero for their belt. I'd be willing to bet that whoever has the deepest pockets is gonna get their way. HBO nor WBC is gonna side with GGG over Canelo.

[hugh grant]

GGG said he'd fight Mayweather at 154 so he should expect to go down to 155 for Canelo.

I think we can all agree Canelo is scared to death?

What a waste of time.

This is why GGG is considered top 5 p4p fighter and why canelo isn't top 20. But canelo wasnt top 30 when he fought floyd so he's improved

[MDPopescu]

Those stats must have made Canelo´s little balls shrink even more.. but then again Wlad´s stats for the last decade looked pretty much the same and yet that silly ***** outboxed him. So nobody´s unbeatable, Canelo should just man up and go for it at 160. He still has ten good years to fight so a loss wouldn´t be the end of the world.

While the assertion according to which nobody's unbeatable is trivial, Mayweather, Marciano, Lopez, Calzaghe retired unbeaten though...

[doom_specialist]

I don't mind Alvarez wanting to fight at 155, but he shouldn't be allowed to hold belts hostage if boxers don't want to take title shots under the divisional limit. That's simply not fair.

[tredh]

LLS Canelo is a losing situation. Since ggg is his mandatory he can just wait Canelo out by not budging in negotiations on the weight.

[MDPopescu]

I don't mind Alvarez wanting to fight at 155, but he shouldn't be allowed to hold belts hostage if boxers don't want to take title shots under the divisional limit. That's simply not fair.

... which is obvious...
... first vacate, then fight Golovkin at 154 with no 160 belts on the table...

[alexguiness]

I don't mind Alvarez wanting to fight at 155, but he shouldn't be allowed to hold belts hostage if boxers don't want to take title shots under the divisional limit. That's simply not fair.

This ^

Nothing wrong with a catch-weight and the mega fight PPV revenue but...

Refusing to defend or challenge for a belt at Championship Weight is simply ridiculous and inexcusable.

[boxingfan4life]

You can get it, you can get it...

Since GGG came to U.S. (i.e. the Proksa fight), he won 11 fights by KO...
Now about the scorecards:
In 6 of these fights, all the judges saw GGG losing no rounds...
In 2 of these fights, only one judge saw GGG losing 1 round...
In 3 of these fights, there were 2 judges who saw GGG losing 1 round...

Therefore: by 'majority decision', GGG lost 3 rounds (out of 62 in the ring) in 11 fights...

I see your point. Its obvious there is some fear out of Canelo. They can make every excuse in the book but we all know he doesn't want those problems at 160. Oh well it will be the easiest title win for GGG.