Throwback-Mayweather Canelo Epilogue

[b00g13man]

It was obvious there'd be some salty mufuckas in here...

[GrandmasterWang]

Canelo was drained but damn it was an impressive performance by Mayweather.

It was actually imo Mayweather's last great performance. He was in the zone that night against a hungry young lion and put on what I would consider to be a technical masterclass.

Floyd gave Canelo a lesson that night, great stuff by the ATG.

[B Phontain]

Great performance by Floyd. Canelo probably has improved but he would have had to improve x 10 to beat Floyd.

The dominant performance wasn't down to 2lbs or Canelo being green. It's because Canelo is a boxer, not a brawler and made the naive mistake thinking he could box with Floyd. If you do that, you won't even come close to winning. Maybe saying he was naive is unfair because he IS a boxer and you can't just turn to a game plan that isn't natural to you against one of the best fighters to lace them up.

Floyd is just the superior boxer of the two and Canelo doesn't have the tools to compete with him in that respect and never had the tools to do anything different.

This pretty much sums it up. No version of canelo thus far would've beaten that floyd

[Sledgeweather17]

I give both Canelo and Floyd plenty of credit and defend them both against the haters when they get idiotic. Having said that, Canelo was green in this fight. His identity up to this date is still a counter puncher first. Against Smith/Khan, he showed his growth as an offensive fighter when pressuring and attacking. That part of his game was DEFINITELY not there against Floyd, and it was still not there against Lara.

Styles make fight. Green Canelo who didn't know how to press his offense was an easy fight for Floyd. At times, it didn't look easy, and it was competitive, but the dude is tailor made for Floyd. At the time, he had poor movement, lack of offensive skills, and lack of power to hurt Floyd's granite chin.

It's not discrediting, it's stating facts. The 2013 version of man-boy Canelo that fought Floyd is absolutely nothing like the guy who fight Smith or Golovkin. It's what makes me a big fan. Canelo stays in tremendous shape and keeps working on his craft, constantly improving one aspect or another.

Stop feeding yourself lies. Canelo was slick AF when he fought Trout, and that was before the Mayweather fight.

That's part of the reason everyone demanded the fight. They thought because Canelo outslicked a slickster like Trout that he would do the same to Mayweather.

He soon learned, along with his bandwagon of fans, that there are levels to this shieet.

No version of Canelo beats 36 year old Floyd, not even the middleweight. Version.

[Real King Kong]

1-Canelo was 23 and a unified champion and p4p top 10

2-Why do ya'll keep coming at me like im a Tank fan?

Of course you're not a tank fan...you'll wait til he's proven himself a top level talent before you get on the bandwagon, same as you did with spence.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

High quality win for Mayweather. And given Canelo's success since, it only makes him look better. Definitely helps his legacy.

[Ray*]

Vintage Mayweather, he put everything together in the fight. Canelo was like BS when he heard the “Draw” scorecard, he knew he lost that fight on all cards.

[FeFist]

His last great performance.

[j0zef]

Stop feeding yourself lies. Canelo was slick AF when he fought Trout, and that was before the Mayweather fight.

That's part of the reason everyone demanded the fight. They thought because Canelo outslicked a slickster like Trout that he would do the same to Mayweather.

He soon learned, along with his bandwagon of fans, that there are levels to this shieet.

No version of Canelo beats 36 year old Floyd, not even the middleweight. Version.

Because I disagree with you, I'm 'feeding myself lies'? I'm not the obvious fanboy with 'weather' in my username.

That's a laughable analysis. Floyd and Trout? Really? You're also skipping over the actual boxing reasons for why Canelo struggled so much. His lack of foot speed and lateral mobility, which turns ugly when he has to be the offensive fighter.

And yeah, current MW version of Canelo would absolutely destroy Floyd.

[Willy Wanker]

Floyd's last great performance.

Canelo has improved, but I still think the 2013 version of Floyd would beat today's Canelo.