Comments Thread For: Canelo on De La Hoya: He Says Things That He Should Not Say

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You and I agree on lots but on this you couldn’t be more wrong. Canelo is moving up from 160, two weight divisions to face a guy that has laid down his last two opponents in his weight class. Both of which I’d surmise has more power than Canelo. The path he is in now is a much larger risk and it’s not even close. In fact I can’t see GGG, Charlo, Andrade, BJ Saunders or anyone else you could name beating Kovalev. In fact, not a single one of the above named fighters have faced a guy as dangerous as Kovalev in any of their two previous fights.

No one was *****ing when GGG faced and beat a 34 year old fighter by the name of Marco Antonio Rubio for the WBC interim title, or Loma beating a 33 year old Martinez for a belt or AJ beating a 41 yo Klitschko that was his so called “hallmark” win. Only when the name Canelo is mentioned do people come up with all kinds of excuses and reasons as to why this or that boxer isn’t sufficient enough.

well, I disagree. Kovalev has been stopped twice fairly recently. His last fight was against a novice in Yarde and Yarde came close to stopping him. Experience and Yarde's lack of conditioning is why he lost that fight. Either way, Kovalev at 36 yrs old, just finished up a training camp, had a rough fight weeks ago, and now has to be in training camp to fight again within 6 weeks. No easy task. When it comes to age, wear and tear, ability to take punishment, and style, I believe that Charlo, andrade, callum smith, plant, bivol and the other younger champions at 175 are all a bigger threat to Canelo than this current version of Kovalev, especially on short rest. That's not to say Kovalev isn't a risk at all, because he is, but the other fighters I mentioned would be more dangerous if they landed the opportunity on Nov 2.

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He is fight a damaged goods fighter

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well, I disagree. Kovalev has been stopped twice fairly recently. His last fight was against a novice in Yarde and Yarde came close to stopping him. Experience and Yarde's lack of conditioning is why he lost that fight. Either way, Kovalev at 36 yrs old, just finished up a training camp, had a rough fight weeks ago, and now has to be in training camp to fight again within 6 weeks. No easy task. When it comes to age, wear and tear, ability to take punishment, and style, I believe that Charlo, andrade, callum smith, plant, bivol and the other younger champions at 175 are all a bigger threat to Canelo than this current version of Kovalev, especially on short rest. That's not to say Kovalev isn't a risk at all, because he is, but the other fighters I mentioned would be more dangerous if they landed the opportunity on Nov 2.

I Agree with this comment, fighting Kovalev does have it's risks due to his punching power, but Canelo's defense is really good, also I do think Canelo will be roided to the gills for this fight, and I don't know why, but I think it will be a easy fight for Canelo, he does know how to work the body and that's Kovalev's weak area, well the chin has been in question also, so the combination Canelo will bring in the ****tail of roids he will consume on tainted meat, plus his skills, will make this fight almost easy for him.