Comments Thread For: WBO, WBC Have No Issue Sanctioning Canelo vs. Smith or Charlo

[bernardo20oct]

Elite boxers fought
Canelo 25 yrs old:
Mayweather (HOF) 2.5 million PPV
Cotto (HOF) 900k PPV
Mosley (HOF)

GGG 34 yrs old:
... Lemieux ... 97k PPV... lol GTFOH boy

[sicko]

I thought Jermall is schdeuled to fight J-Rock next??? Of course I'm sure he would drop everything to fight Canelo.

I don't know which brother exactly but I think one of them may have to fight Charles Hatley next. But yeah J Rock can weight if he can get Canelo.

[Tomjas]

Elite boxers fought
Canelo 25 yrs old:
Mayweather (HOF) 2.5 million PPV
Cotto (HOF) 900k PPV
Mosley (HOF)

GGG 34 yrs old:
... Lemieux ... 97k PPV... lol GTFOH boy

NIL, ZERO, NADA, ZILCH NO fights against anyone from his weight division in the last 3 years

[TheCell8]

He'll go with the path of least resistance, which is Liam Smith, the worst title holder in the sport currently.

Charlo would light his ass up.

[REYESdelBOXEO]

WARD - I am a massive fan of Ward (and not of GGG) but the stars were never aligned for this one and much of the fault lies with Andre

LARA - GTFOH. Lara brings nothing to the table and is not a threat anyway. The only people that want to see this are Canelo fans deflecting

CANELO - looks like a clear duck by GBP until proven otherwise

MORA - GTFOH. Lucky if he lasts 3 rounds

DEGEALE - I assume that you mean DeGale. At 168 and fighting Jack next. Might happen in future

RAMIREZ - has literally won 1 decent fight over a shot Abraham and is fighting somebody else anyway

BROOK - GTFOH. Good 147 fighter but has fought nobody bar Porter and has shown no willingness to do so

HOPKINS - last heard telling GGG to move up and fight Kovalev to deflect from his client

Now let's examine Canelo's record

Years campaigning as a MW: 3

Fights against MWs: 0

Says it all really

I brought facts you brought your own personal opinion. ggg turned down these fights theirs audio & video footage , wake up this is the reality , quit living in fantasy land , your hero does not want the big fights after all, and his fans don't either, that's a sad & pathetic reality.

Your wrong again: CANELO fought & totally dominated the Ring Lineal WBC Middleweight Champion , future hall of famer & top 10 P4P boxer Miguel Cotto.

#Checkmate/Next!

[Citizen Koba]

Canelo can still physically make the cut to 154 (nearly every 154 fighter still walks into the ring near 170 anyway), had no intention of fighting anyone at 160 yet, and has given back the WBC belt (the one lynchpin that Golovkin fans kept hanging their hat on).

With no belts on the line, Alvarez offered Golovkin a chance at the big time, and all it would've taken was for Golovkin (who is supposedly smaller than Alvarez) to make the weight cut to 155.

move on

Did he? I musta missed that. You got a link?

[Daddy T]

All this weight draining he is doing is going to shorten his career

[Tomjas]

I brought facts you brought your own personal opinion. ggg turned down these fights theirs audio & video footage , wake up this is the reality , quit living in fantasy land , your hero does not want the big fights after all, and his fans don't either, that's a sad & pathetic reality.

Your wrong again: CANELO fought & totally dominated the Ring Lineal WBC Middleweight Champion , future hall of famer & top 10 P4P boxer Miguel Cotto.

#Checkmate/Next!

Nope

Just another blown up WW who has signalled his intention to move down having lost his title

Forget chess and stick to Minecraft

[MDPopescu]

Canelo beats Liam and Jermell in the same night...

[Bronx2245]

Here's a good article on GBP:

Is "Canelo" Alvarez Getting Bad Advice From Oscar and GBP?
By Miguel Iturrate ON May 30, 2016

De La Hoya and his sidekick Hopkins always couch their rhetoric with talk about being "for the fighters" and it all sounds very good. Especially when you consider it comes from two heralded, iconic boxers of the modern era. Nowadays, a lot of the time they appear to be morphing into bad salesmen. The talk has changed in tone and a lot of what is being said is contradictory to previous statements.

Take the following diatribe from Oscar around the time Miguel Cotto vacated the same WBC title in 2015: "It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace to the promotion, it's a disgrace to the sport to do something like that. Every fighter dreams of fighting for the WBC middleweight championship."

Compare that to De La Hoya's talk after "Canelo" vacated the very same WBC belt. “There is no denying that Canelo is the biggest star in the sport of boxing. He is eager to get in the ring with ‘GGG’ to show the world that he is also the best pound for pound fighter in the sport, but we won’t negotiate under a forced deadline. Now that the WBC title is off the table, I am hopeful that ‘GGG’ and his promoter K2 Promotions will come to the table in good faith and get this deal done.”

After the retirement of Floyd Mayweather Jr. Alvarez has emerged as boxing’s top drawing card, as Oscar De La Hoya and GBP now tell you at every turn. Though this may be the case, Alvarez has certainly not come close to earning what Mayweather did and there can be no doubt that boxing’s ceiling is a long elevator ride down from the penthouse that Mayweather crafted. Oscar seems to have missed out on the reality check, and that is that Alvarez basically got the label by default, and he could quickly lose it because of bad management."

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...-oscar-and-gbp