Comments Thread For: Canelo Withdraws From Golovkin Rematch on May 5

[Street15]

Meh Canelo is super young

He’ll be fine for a year

This has probably brought him more noteriety (granted its bad press) but hey any free publicity is good publicity

That's not how it works. He has to rebuild his brand.

1. Regain confidence from his fans, networks, his peers, the overall boxing community. He has to deal with people doubting his wins and his entire legitimacy now. Those are the risks of cheating though.

2. Not to mention he still has to appease and hope his sponsors don't leave (tecate, hennessy, everlast, under armour, etc).

3. He has to think about all the money he cost fans from all around the world from tickets, to hotels, to other travel expenses.

4. The economy of Las Vegas just took a guaranteed $300 million hit because of him.

5. All the money GBP spent on advertising/marketing this 2nd fight, in order to make the fight again, they'll have to spend that money alllllll over again.

6. He has to gain confidence in the states of Nevada, Calif, New York, and Texas that this won't happen again.

So, again, this isn't something that's that easy to where it will blow over and he will get back to doing things just as they were before and he won't be affected at all from this. He will definitely feel this for the rest of his entire career.

[MDPopescu]

i'm being honest here, i believe they've already settled things behind the scenes. Because Canelo announcing cancellation of the fight is probably a breach of contract and he and GBP could be sued for all of this, however we haven't heard any of this and GGG is happy to headline a May 5 fight.

... yes... it sounds plausible...

[BigStomps]

do you see the line after it where it says "in all seriousness" which implies I didn't really mean what I said before. But I do think there's a good chance that he did use peds and it's what screwed this fight up. Honest mistakes likely wouldn't have caused Vegas to risk canceling a $ fight of this magnitude. Morales was allowed to fight garcia despite testing positive for the same thing

Well no I didn't see that actually.
And of course Canelo taking PED's is what screwed this fight up.
Whether he did it intentionally or not we'll never know but it's completely Canelo's fault that the fight isn't happening. Triple g did nothing wrong and if anyone is blaming Triple g then that shows you how much of an idiot they really are!
Sucks for us but we all knew it was gonna get cancelled so I don't blame Canelo for cancelling the fight first before the NSAC cancelled it for him. That gives Triple g one month to find a replacement.
I don't think it'll be a top fighter though. And he shouldn't fight a top fighter. He should take a tune up and hopefully fight Canelo in September. At least that's what I'm hoping for..

[TonyGe]

This is GGG's fault

Thank you GGG for crying in interviews

**** off Jack off...

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Really?
**** that then.

According to Michael Benson, dunno how legit the source is

[ramses07]

That's not how it works. He has to rebuild his brand.

1. Regain confidence from his fans, networks, his peers, the overall boxing community. He has to deal with people doubting his wins and his entire legitimacy now. Those are the risks of cheating though.

2. Not to mention he still has to appease and hope his sponsors don't leave (tecate, hennessy, everlast, under armour, etc).

3. He has to think about all the money he cost fans from all around the world from tickets, to hotels, to other travel expenses.

4. The economy of Las Vegas just took a guaranteed $300 million hit because of him.

5. All the money GBP spent on advertising/marketing this 2nd fight, in order to make the fight again, they'll have to spend that money alllllll over again.

6. He has to gain confidence in the states of Nevada, Calif, New York, and Texas that this won't happen again.

So, again, this isn't something that's that easy to where it will blow over and he will get back to doing things just as they were before and he won't be affected at all from this. He will definitely feel this for the rest of his entire career.

I'm pretty sure if a guy like mosley, who was actually caught doing real steroids

and margarito who was caught using plaster in his hand wraps

came back and had multimillion paydays

Canelo will be able to come back easier than these guys.

[FranciscoS]

I'm pretty sure that Canelo could be caught red handed with a needle with the letters PED written on it, commit murder, uppercut 3 babies in the face and get caught raping sheep on his farm and there would still be fans here defending him.

You mean like with Floyd Cheatweather.

[Street15]

I'm pretty sure if a guy like mosley, who was actually caught doing real steroids

and margarito who was caught using hand wraps

came back and had multimillion paydays

Canelo will be able to come back easier than these guys.

That's not the issue. Whether or not he can make millions again is not the issue. That's a direct result of being popular. He's definitely popular.

Neither one of those guys were as big (status wise) as Canelo. Neither one of them had fights cancelled just before one of the biggest fights boxing has ever seen. Neither one of them is costing the Vegas economy hundreds of million of dollars in revenue (well, not costing, but eliminating that opportunity). Neither one of those guys had to deal with the hundreds of media outlets that now exist.

The point is, it won't be easy for him to just say "give me my 6 month suspension, and absolutely nothing will change for me". things will definitely change. Especially considering those things I mentioned above.

He's had 2 humiliating moments in his career. Both came as a result of having to face Gennady. (giving up his belt to gennady & now having a fight being called off because you have banned drugs in your system before a Gennady fight).

[NYG]

Canelo lost the first fight anyway and now he got exposed as a ***** ****** juicer. Guy is the biggest fraud in boxing and i hope his name remains ruined. Complete bum

[landotter]

Muthaf***** f****** f*** f*** bi*** f****** aaahhhhhhh!! Where’s the f***** aspirin!!

Okay, this actually made me laugh for the first time since I got the freaking update on my phone!