Comments Thread For: Linares: Canelo is Best Pound-For-Pound Fighter in The World

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Former three-division world champion Jorge Linares (45-4) was very impressed with the way Saul "Canelo" Alvarez boxed in his majority decision victory over Gennady "Triple G" Golovkin in September. With the win, Alvarez captured the WBA and WBC middleweight titles.
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[Abovetheclouds]

1. Loma
2. Crawford
3. Canelo
4. Usyk
5. Inoue

[KingKrypton]

Its true. No one has faced an opponent like GGG twice in a row. Whether you agree with it or not on paper he beat GGG.

1. Canelo
2. Lomachenko
3. Usyk
4. Crawford
5. Inoue

[fvanesbeck]

Anyone who has Canelo ahead of Loma, Usyk or Crawford needs their head inspected.

[Bronx2245]

Jorge Linares vs. Anthony Yigit! Why not? That eye should be good by March! I want to see Yigit again, and I want to see Linares tested @ 140! The WBSS Jr.Welterweight Tournament is definitely "The Best Fighting The Best!" Richard Schaefer, SALUTE!

September 14, 2018:

Although the World Boxing Super Series has not had much of an impact in the United States in the first season, the second season has arrived with much more anticipation and is already a game-changer for the sport of boxing, according to Richard Schaefer.

Schaefer spoke with Fightful and mentioned the World Boxing Super Series is on its way to changing the sport for the better. The WBSS, called by Schaefer the greatest boxing tournament of all time, has already created an undisputed cruiserweight champion in Oleksandr Usyk and is en route to crown multiple unified champions at bantamweight and junior welterweight with the second set of tournaments and Schaefer said it's an opportunity for boxers to become huge stars.

The first season had its difficulties such as overall interest in the United States and everlasting doubts as to whether or not the tournament format is viable in the long run, but now the second season has been met with excitement from fans and fighters. Interest from boxers has increased with some lobbying to get into the tournament and Schaefer said fighters are understanding the potential rewards winning the World Boxing Super Series has in store.

"So for this second season, there was a substantially larger number of fighters wanting to participate, some of them being very outspoken, p*ssed off that they were not selected, but you can only select eight. You look at Sergey Lipinets and he was very p*ssed off that he wasn’t invited and he was outspoken about it. There was a lot of fighters who wanted to participate and I think that’s only going to increase because I think fighters are now thinking, ‘*****, if I’m in the World Boxing Super Series, in a matter of a year, I can be the king of the division and be featured and exposed globally’ and that is why fighters today are asking to be included,” Schaefer said.

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[ralex]

Anyone who has Canelo ahead of Loma, Usyk or Crawford needs their head inspected.

How do you figure? Canelos quality of opposition takes a dump on all of theirs combined. Canelo has put in the work to be #1

[fvanesbeck]

How do you figure? Canelos quality of opposition takes a dump on all of theirs combined. Canelo has put in the work to be #1

If he'd legitimately won against all of those fighters then he'd be p4p no.1 but he lost to Mayweather and (in my opinion) to Lara and GGG x2.

[DuckAdonis]

Wow really surprised a goldenboy fighter would say that...

[Mammoth]

Lomachenko
Crawford
Usyk
Garcia
Inoue

[NearHypnos]

Anyone who has Canelo ahead of Loma, Usyk or Crawford needs their head inspected.

We’ll wait while you bring up a better recent win than a top 5 p4p fighter like GGG.

Hell, we’ll wait for a top 20 they’ve even fought.

Loma does have Rigo and he should rightfully be somewhere towards the top. Usyk and Crawford are indeed studs but their quality of opposition is so far back that no one would take it serious in comparison.


Usyk is the best fighter in his division. Fair play to him.

Crawford isn’t or at least doesn’t seem to be interested enough to prove it by fighting the top guys in his div.

Loma and Mikey are/were(?) on a collision to determine theirs with both making the case for it.

Canelo just beat a literal reigning p4p kingpin in the division on a historic run to cement his status. Not to mention his *already* better resume...

We can hate on the ginger all we want but he’s earned it. With the absence of Ward, Canelo is by far the number 1 right now based on merit.

Usyk beating AJ or Wilder is now something to talk about.

Crawford establishing himself with a win over Spence Or Thurman with a win over one of the others (Like Porter) realistically puts him in the *convo* for #1. That’s what it would take to put him in the convo right NOW. By then, the other guys will have (assuming) built even better resumes.

So long as Canelo keeps winning it’s going to be near impossible to move him from there especially if he throws in a big fight a year or so.

It’s like with Ward. Only retirement or a loss would have bumped him off..no one could catch up at that point except Canelo who woulda made a great case.


If Usyk beat Wilder and AJ and cleared out the hw division though...no lie we might be talking about an atg type of status not just p4p.