Why do Canelo fans defend canelo weight?

[RussB23]

They also insist hes not a real middlweight(lol). Canelo walking around looking like a SMW yet hes not ready for 160. So he wants to hold the MW belt and be called MW champ but doesnt want to fight real MW's?. Then when his mando wants to fight him he says "only 155 doe" lol. Seems like canelo ****ting his pants lately.

Ive even debated with some canelo fans on here that tried to say 155 is middlweight and isnt a catchweight. wtf!?

[Beercules]

Because they're like 15 on average

[Razcal26]

They also insist hes not a real middlweight(lol). Canelo walking around looking like a SMW yet hes not ready for 160. So he wants to hold the MW belt and be called MW champ but doesnt want to fight real MW's?. Then when his mando wants to fight him he says "only 155 doe" lol. Seems like canelo ****ting his pants lately.

Ive even debated with some canelo fans on here that tried to say 155 is middlweight and isnt a catchweight. wtf!?

155 -160 is Middleweight.

What he is doing is wrong and ridiculous. No one should defend it.

[HanzGruber]

People don't like to be or admit when they're wrong

[Eff Pandas]

There is no question its a silly thing, but boxing is a sport with lil to no structure so the inmates make the rules & have been making the rules since its inception basically. Nowadays I think more boxers are finding out they can make their own rules like the alphabet groups, commissions & promoters have been doing for decades. Boxing fans tend to go kicking & screaming into change so they are freaking out about it. Thing is without a power structure in a sport ANYONE can make their own rules.

For example the WBO just popped up in the 80's & said "yea we are a world title too" & within a decade or two they were accepted as such & nowadays virtually no one thinks of the WBO as any more of a bs title then the other 3 alphabet groups for the most part. Two decades from now there maybe a Caneloweight champ, a 156lb champ, a 157lb champ & so on with how boxing is moving & it'll be no big deal. Or it could go the way of the two weight division titles in one night Sugar Ray Leonard rule from back in the day that no one really did until Mayweather did it several decades later as a one off as well.

[R-C]

I don't defend it, but I understand that he earned the right to dictate his fights. He made the necessary sacrifices to be where he is at now.

No different from Oscar, Floyd or Manny.

I also like GGG, but I understand that he won't make the necessary sacrifices to become a superstar. Everything he has (titles) were basically handed to him.

[Uncle Rodge]

There is power in the ginger.

[Scipio2009]

They also insist hes not a real middlweight(lol). Canelo walking around looking like a SMW yet hes not ready for 160. So he wants to hold the MW belt and be called MW champ but doesnt want to fight real MW's?. Then when his mando wants to fight him he says "only 155 doe" lol. Seems like canelo ****ting his pants lately.

Ive even debated with some canelo fans on here that tried to say 155 is middlweight and isnt a catchweight. wtf!?

-Outside of Floyd Mayweather and maybe a handful of heavyweights (though there's no weight limit, most guys do have to go through a full fight camp to get themselves anywhere near being fighting fit), there's hardly a single professional fighter that walks around near the weight that they compete at; Dominic Wade, according to the WBC 30-day weight, is still 15 lbs off of the division limit. Erislandy Lara walked into the ring for his fight with 'Canelo' Alvarez at basically the same 170, yet Golovkin and his camp don't want that work either.

-When has Alvarez ever run around wanting to "be called MW champ"? lol, Alvarez wanted the fight with Cotto, finally got the fight with Cotto, and added piece was that Cotto had the WBC MW belt.

And, just like Alvarez, Golovkin's camp want to fight Cotto/Alvarez, with the actual title being a distant secondary concern to them; notice Golovkin "earned" the mandatory status Oct 2014, yet Team Golovkin has been plenty happy to take three step-aside payments to keep things moving. If they wanted the actual belt, they could've asserted their mandatory status, Cotto and Alvarez would've gladly mailed the green belt to the WBC, and gone back to fighting at JMW.

Golovkin's camp ****ed him when they backed out of a legacy-making fight with Andre Ward; with Ward walking into the ring for the Barrera fight in the mid 180s, there's no way he's ever coming back down to 168lbs.

Golovkin is now a 34-year old MW, that no one has any idea of actually how good he is, continuing his wait on smaller fighters coming up in weight. 16 months from now and Golovkin could be done with (even Wladimir Klitschko, in a heavyweight era where the talent was what it was, is at just about the end of the line at 40 years of age), lol

[BoliviaChiLEsp]

As a businessman I defend him, smart move of De La Hoya.


Nonetheless he is the champions of nothing; he is not defending his belt against top names within MW division.


He has the belt but not the recognision; in order to achieve that he has to fight against Lemieux, Jacobs, Quillin and of course GGG.


The only relevant name in his resume is Cotto.

[Eff Pandas]

Golovkin is now a 34-year old MW, that no one has any idea of actually how good he is

True. This is the part I hate about the whole situation as a boxing fan. I just wanna see the best fight the best at the end of the day. But its also impossible to ignore the realities of how boxing works with its clusterf#ck of a structure & corrupt ranking groups.