Comments Thread For: Canelo vs. Golovkin Rematch Finalized For May 5, HBO PPV

[SteveM]

This fight for me has lost a lot of steam. GGG older and less confident. Canelo younger and now more confident. GGG will get punished more in this fight.

That's it exactly. The A side got what they wanted - strong marination to hide the smell of less than fresh meat.

Still, I'll be watching of course. The reality is both have more difficult and less financially attractive fights to be avoided - Jacobs and Charlo for starters.

The winner will jump at Saunders as he'll be seen as less of a challenge than those 2 and comes with a belt providing he beats Murray.

[scarybodyshot]

Regardless of who you want to win lets just enjoy this fight! I'm rooting for GGG! Hope he'll seek and destroy this time, Canelo caught him flush a few times and he literally walked forward. - although Canelo didn't seem too phased by GGG. Great fight!

[Mammoth]

for reals... lost interest in this fight along the way.

Needs a good undercard this time

[boxing90]

If you have compubox why are judges needed...

Triple G out landed Canelo by a big gap shouldn't have been a draw... Not really hyped over the rematch more so looking forward to Wilder vs Joshua.

[j0zef]

Good to see Golovkin staying in shape for the rematch. Less muscle this time as I predicted. More speed.

Where you seeing this?

[Scipio2009]

Boxing’s biggest event of 2018 is official! #CaneloGGG2 I expect we will see even more fireworks. #May5 pic.twitter.com/r7KA6APlDl

— Oscar De La Hoya (@OscarDeLaHoya) January 29, 2018

The hilarious thing is that this likely won't be the biggest event of the year, because Wilder vs Joshua, for all of the marbles could happen this year, in August even.

[SteveM]

he will be even less successful this time around

Most people had Golovkin winning.

I had it 7-5 in favor of Canelo but all the rounds were competitive.

It's obvious what Golovkin has to do but not sure he can do it. He threw less because Canelo has quicker hands.

If Golovkin could disguise his punches more and get to that body to slow Canelo down but not sure that either he and especially Sanchez will a/ see the need for that and b/ be able to do it/ teach it

[Boxing Logic]

"It's a special moment for the sport when two of boxing's most accomplished competitors-both in their prime-

I've defended Peter Nelson before many times, but if he is going to blatantly lie to the fans in press releases in the hopes of tricking and pulling the wool over the eyes of casual fans who don't know any better, then you're not going to see me defending him very often in the future. First they ruin the best matchup in the sport-again-by waiting too long, which is already an injury to the fans, so to speak, but now they add insult to that injury by lying to try to cover up how much they ****ed the sport over again out of greed by trying to determine the outcome ahead of time, instead of just letting the boxers decide it in the ring in their primes. They did this by waiting until the older, less marketable boxer is past his prime so that they can use him to build the name of the younger cash cow.

The only other two times Canelo has looked as fast and explosive as he did last September was when he fought Chavez Jr, and Angulo. You know what all those fights have in common with Canelo-GGG? All three were against faded, slowed down, either past prime or drained or both, opponents. Angulo was past prime with no snap left on his punches, so Canelo was able to light him up with combinations between every slow attempted punch. Chavez Jr was so drained he had no snap either. And GGG, similar to Angulo, had lost much of the snap off his punches with age. He just started off from a much higher skill level, and had much better fundamentals such as a the jab, so he was able to outpoint Canelo that way, but his faded reflexes still had the effect of making Canelo look way better than he ever has except against Angulo and Chavez Jr, just like the corrupt boxing establishment planned it. It's like they have simply been planning to wait until GGG got old to use him as a sacrificial lamb for their younger, more marketable, North American stars this whole time.

So as much as I've defended Peter Nelson being picky with his limited budget and only buying 50-50 fights, something that he hasn't even been consistent about the last half year anyway, I can't defend him anymore after he was either behind, or he allowed Oscar to, ruin GGG-Canelo, and now that he's adding insult to the situation by trying to mislead fans about it. He's still better than the guy that ran HBO when Haymon was there, as well as the last guy right before him who gave Andre Ward 2 mil to fight Edwin Rodriguez, and he's definitely better than Stephen Espinoza, but those aren't high bars to clear at all. HBO can still do much better, but the pattern is clear enough that it seems like they're not interested in doing better for boxing, they are just interested in money, in which case Peter Nelson's hands were probably tied on this one. But he still didn't have to come out and lie about it.

So, it's still fair to say Nelson is better then the rest of them recently, but I can't be a supporter of his after this either.

[SteveM]

Triple G out landed Canelo by a big gap shouldn't have been a draw... Not really hyped over the rematch more so looking forward to Wilder vs Joshua.

"If you have compubox why are judges needed?"

smdh

[MrShakeAndBake]

The hilarious thing is that this likely won't be the biggest event of the year, because Wilder vs Joshua, for all of the marbles could happen this year, in August even.

wilder is getting murked by King Kong.