Comments Thread For: Loeffler: We Expect Canelo To Defend Against Golovkin

[M Bison]

I expect king Khan to easily school Conelo

[Mike_R]

At some point it just has to come down to these guys knowing their own bodies. I can't imagine Golovkin at 33 years old can afford the 5 pounds it would take to appease Alvarez. When you cut weight and you really sc**** all the way down as far as you can go... Those last couple of pounds to your physical limit can be all the difference when you have to show up and fight the next day.

I think cutting weight with relation to age has to be considered here. Hopkins pulled it off with Oscar, but Bernard might be the #1 most disciplined athlete in the last 25 years of boxing.

[Joe Beamish]

Plan B doesn't come into it....what comes into it is regaining the middlweight belt and defending that middlweight belt against legitimate 160lb Fighters...not laying seige to a middlweight belt and trying to defend it against 155 or less fighters....canelo will be stripped if he don't defend against golovkin and that's that.....I am more concerned in getting the middlweight championship back in its rightful place....plan b will then come into place....if u seriously love boxing and your happy with what canelo is trying to do..I suggest you go find another sport ....all this 155 crap is no good


WAR GOLOVKIN

I totally agree with this. This phase needs to end.

[Supreme Leader]

I expect king Khan to easily school Conelo

Hahahahahahahahahahaha! You're too funny, that's the funniest thing I've heard today.

[The plunger man]

At some point it just has to come down to these guys knowing their own bodies. I can't imagine Golovkin at 33 years old can afford the 5 pounds it would take to appease Alvarez. When you cut weight and you really sc**** all the way down as far as you can go... Those last couple of pounds to your physical limit can be all the difference when you have to show up and fight the next day.

I think cutting weight with relation to age has to be considered here. Hopkins pulled it off with Oscar, but Bernard might be the #1 most disciplined athlete in the last 25 years of boxing.

5lb is almost down to the lower weight class so really asking a natural middlweight to trim down that much off your body is totally wrong.....now if I saw golovkin in his last few fights come in at 157 or so ....I would say maybe he could get 155.....but he's not that low and for all the years I can remember I have not seen him dip under 159.....so it's also a safety matter dehydratin can be one of the main factors in terms of brain injury as u lose
all your body water and that includes what's around your brain as a cushion....catchweights should not be happening and weight classes are there for a reason..."the bottom line is if your a good enough fighter in that divison yiu should be able to compete from 155 to 160....if you need an advantage by draining a fighter to win a fight in the same division then you shouldn't be in that division in the first place

[Irony123]

I also expect Canelo to defend against GGG...at 155lbs. The financial rewards are too great for GGG to turn down this fight. Then again, GGG's concern is unifying the belts, and not the money.

its probably both and they usually go hand in hand for prize fighters.

[Rip Chudd]

I really hope GGG and team stand their ground. This 155 crap has to stop. Now if he wants to fight there go ahead but don't try to hold the middlewweight championship hostage while doing it

[The plunger man]

I expect king Khan to easily school Conelo

No mate I'm english and even I know Khan has simply no chance in this fight ..sad to say

[kafkod]

its sad how fans who bashed catchweigths for years and even cried that canelo lost to floyd at 152 are now defending canelo for fighting at 155 over and over. why does he have fans? i don't get it. after he drops the belt and ducks ggg they will still defend him. the essence of being a fanboy.

I think it's because the fans have had to watch Cotto drop to 145 to fight Pacquiao, and De La Hoya drop to 147 to fight Pacquiao, and Canelo drop to 152 to fight Mayweather, and B-Hop drop to fight De La Hoya, etc., etc. The catch-weight fight is not new to the game, so fans expect GGG to do what other great champions have done in the past. At this point GGG can stick by his "principles", or he can go get some "commas." He can go down to get 'em, or go up to get 'em, but he's not in the position to make demands where he sits at the current time.

All the examples you gave are fights between men in different divisions.

In each case the bigger man knew that his opponent was naturally smaller than him and that, even with the catchweight, he would still have a weight advantage in the ring on the night.

Now look at Canelo and GGG. Canelo actually enters the ring heavier than Golovkin after rehydrating.

Fighting at less than 100% strength and fitness against a smaller man is one thing.

Doing that against a man who would be around 5lbs heavier than you in the ring even without the catchweight is another thing altogether.

This is also a mandatory defence by Canelo. I defy you or anybody else to find even one example, in the entire history of boxing, of a world champion demanding a catchweight from a mandatory challenger.

[KeyboardWarrior]

Enough of the catch weights