Comments Thread For: Saunders: Canelo-Khan 'Middleweight' Bout is a Load of Bull****!

[kafkod]

the one in your av? it's Canelo

War Khan!

[thack]

Agreed 160lbs is middleweight and if they don't fight at this how on earth can you say you're the middleweight champion and insist the champion moves down . 155lbs is not a weight it's a con.

[ruedboy]

Saunders is 100% correct. If you claim to be MW champ then fight at 160.
Cotto wins MW title from a gimpy Martinez and Alvarez takes the title from the undersized Cotto. Now Alvarez faces off against another pretender. I guess you can say thats boxing but its still BS.
When same day weigh-ins were the rule a fighter wasn't able to weigh in at 155 and come into the ring north of 170.

[boxingfan4life]

I completely agree with Sanders. Unfortunately money takes precedence over everything. I have nothing against Cotto or Canelo, but they're not real middleweights. I honestly think its wrong and disrespectful against past and current middleweights who have worked their way up to 160 and fought at the weight. Why couldn't Canelo or Cotto do that? To me it contradicts the purpose of the division.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

Canelo can't make 154, so he's a MW.

Problem is, Canelo can't make 154, so he's a MW. But he won't let his opponents fight at 160.

Simple reason for this, Canelo is weak. He's KO'd one drained and inactive Kirkland at 154, everyone else has been 147ers.

Canelo isn't half as good as they pretend.