I personally don’t really care about the cw. Champions from different divisions meeting in the middle is fine...but people try to ignore the cw like it didn’t happen, like Floyd basically beat him at 154. He made the fight at a cw because he felt it was to his advantage...period.
Why Floyd will NEVER truly get credit for beating Canelo...
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I know. It takes IV fluids to truly rehydrate the minerals, nutrients and vitamins back into one's body. Mayweather insisted on the catchweight not to drain Canelo but to even out the playing field because he was at a disadvantage by being the natural smaller man.Comment
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Pacquiao gets credit for beating Cotto at 145. Cotto could never make welterweight again after that too.Comment
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I despise catchweights, but Floyd totally dominated that fight, all with skills, skills, skills. It'a a great win. Over a guy who was NOT green in the least, who'd already had a lot of big fights.
Floyd "put on a clinic", as the saying goes.Comment
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If it was a close fight then maybe the weight could have won Canelo an extra round or two but it wasn't close.
Also I don't buy Canelo was green. 40 professional fights in isn't green. The same people who say Canelo was green also say Floyd was ducking Thurman who at the time had only 20+ fights. This is evidence that whoever Floyd fights people will hate on.
good point
the weight made no difference whatsoever in that fight
Canelo weighed 1.5 lbs less than he did for Trout, 1 fight earlier
if Mayweather wants the fight to be a boxing match, it will be a boxing match..... Canelo got schooledComment
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Why are Floyd fans lying when they say Canelo insisted the catchweight? Because judging from Canelo's own words that he doesn't want to do a catchweight because he feels like its going to affect him and it did in the weight in and in the fight where he looked absolutely sluggish and horrible.
"I'll tell you the truth of what happened," Alvarez said in Spanish through translator Eric Gomez. "Why would I give up the weight? I'm at 154. I'm the 154-pound champion.
CANELO: Calm in the spotlight
MAYWEATHER: 10 bone-rattling shots
"I wouldn't do that. But when the (fight) negotiations started, they wanted me to go to 147. I said that's physically impossible. I couldn't do it. Then they inched up to 150. I said I can't do it, that's impossible. Those days are over. I can't make that weight anymore, I've grown.
"Then they went up to 151. And then finally, so we could make the fight, I said, 'If anything, I'll give up two pounds. I'll go up to 152. I agreed to that. Then they tried to force me to be quiet and not to mention anything that they came up with the weight of 152. And that's why ... I haven't said anything until now.
"They said we were idiots, we were ******, that we were the ones that wanted the catchweight."Comment



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