Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Derevyanchenko: IBF Ruling is Expected Soon

[Boxing Goat]

Canelo vs GGG wouldn't be for the lineal championship anymore.

The Ring title is a joke and doesn't represent the lineal title.

The Transnational Boxing Ratings Board are the closest thing we have to the keepers of a true lineal title, and they dropped Canelo from their rankings due to the PED suspension (as Ring should have done, but didn't). In order to become ranked again, Canelo would have to return and win a fight in the division.

Canelo is not the lineal champion. He has not won a fight at middleweight since May 2016. He had a draw which most feel he clearly lost against GGG followed by a PED suspension, he fought Chavez at catchweight, he fought Smith at junior middleweight.

The only way to crown a new lineal champion is for the #1 fighter in the division to fight the #2.

With Canelo suspended, that fight would be Golovkin vs Saunders.

I stopped reading at the bolded part. The lineal title that goes back to Hopkins still rests with Canelo, as much as I hate to say it. He's still the champ. End of discussion.

[Boxing Goat]

You mad bro? Why so hate?

Not mad at all.......trolls annoy me though

[Boksfan]

Not mad at all.......trolls annoy me though

In that case you must be sick of yourself

[Curt Henning]

Mandatories are what they are but.....when you have the chance to win the lineal championship for the most lucrative fight in the division, you take it.

he had that chance....and he couldnt manage anything better than a draw with a guy with 0 wins against MW's and that lost to a past his prime featherfisted WW

[Boxing Goat]

he had that chance....and he couldnt manage anything better than a draw with a guy with 0 wins against MW's and that lost to a past his prime featherfisted WW

Lol And only an idiot would think Adalaide Birds scorecard was legit.

[famicommander]

I stopped reading at the bolded part. The lineal title that goes back to Hopkins still rests with Canelo, as much as I hate to say it. He's still the champ. End of discussion.

He hasn't won a fight at middleweight in over two years. He's not the middleweight lineal champion anymore than Tyson Fury is still the lineal heavyweight champion.

You can't get suspended and fail to win a fight in your weight class for multiple years and still call yourself lineal champ.

[Boxing Goat]

He hasn't won a fight at middleweight in over two years. He's not the middleweight lineal champion anymore than Tyson Fury is still the lineal heavyweight champion.

You can't get suspended and fail to win a fight in your weight class for multiple years and still call yourself lineal champ.

Do you not know the difference between what Fury has done over the last two years and what Canelo has done? It's not that hard to decipher.

[Curt Henning]

Lol And only an idiot would think Adalaide Birds scorecard was legit.

if byrd was in on it she could have filled out a 115-113 card for canelo...right? if it was a fix?

if she filled out a 115-113 card no one would have batted an eye or said anything about any possible "corruption"...they would have called it a close fight that canelo got the nod in

her card only lent to speculation.....if she was fixing it she could have been less con****uous

face it...golovkin didnt convince the judges he was superior...despite being a career natural MW

[Curt Henning]

common sense would tell you if a judge was trying to skew a fight towards a fighter of their favor they would probably do what they could to not draw attention to themselves huh?

[famicommander]

Do you not know the difference between what Fury has done over the last two years and what Canelo has done? It's not that hard to decipher.

They both got busted for PEDs and they both failed to win fights in their weight classes for multiple years.

Of course the circumstances are different, but result is the same. To be lineal champion you actually have to take and win fights in your division.

The TBRB stripped Canelo just like they stripped Fury.

By the time Canelo fights again it will have been over 2.5 years since his last middleweight victory, and nearly three years since he beat an actual middleweight AT middleweight.