Who took more risks in their career Floyd or Canelo?

[blitted_master]

Canelo took a risk by fighting Floyd when he was still too young and inexperienced.

But the truth is that both of these fighters exemplify what's wrong with boxing in this era.

[The Big Dunn]

Floyd is the only boxer I know who moves up in weight, fights bigger guys, fought in 25 fights against current or former world champions, but according to some never takes any risks.

[blitted_master]

Floyd is the only boxer I know who moves up in weight, fights bigger guys, fought in 25 fights against current or former world champions, but according to some never takes any risks.

Every great fighter he fought was showing signs of slipping when he challenged them. He lost the first fight against Castillo and also against Maidana, who bullied him around the ring like a little child.

[The Big Dunn]

Every great fighter he fought was showing signs of slipping when he challenged them. He lost the first fight against Castillo and also against Maidana, who bullied him around the ring like a little child.

Your 1st sentence is flat out untrue. He called Shane and ODH out for years and they flat refused to fight him. IMO he didn't lose either of those fights. However, if you feel he did, then the rematches had to be risks, right?

[boliodogs]

Mayweather fought better competition for his weight class in my opinion. When Mayweather won a close fight he fought a rematch. Canelo wins the closest of split decisions over GGG in his boxing home town where he gets such favorable scoring and refuses to ever fight him again even though the majority of viewers thought he lost that fight. Canelo fools gullible fans by weight jumping to fight the weakest champion at a higher weight class instead of fighting the toughest guys in any one weight class. Canelo studies these heavier champs and fights the ones he thinks he can beat instead of fighting one of the best at that weight. Feiding was a very weak champion who had been KOed in two rounds by the real 168 pound champion Callum Smith. Why does Canelo cherry pick Fielding instead of fighting Smith? Canelo was a 12 to 1 favorite to beat Smith so it was not a risky fight at all. He would be no better than even money to beat Smith. Same thing with Kovalev who has shown much weakness and is a 4.5 to 1 underdog to Canelo so the fight is not that risky. Nobody was asking Canelo to fight these weaker heavier champions when he had tough guys to fight at 160. Canelo would not be such a big favorite to beat Jermall or Andrade or GGG. Mayweather rematched Castillo and Maidana but Canelo never rematched Lara or GGG after winning close disputed split decisions.

[Redd Foxx]

Canelo has taken calculated risks. I'd say he has generally taken more risks than Floyd. Problem is, he's also either failed or been helped out by judging so he's still less convincing than Floyd.

[Caught Square]

The thing with Floyd is that because he’s so good he would be the expected to win by the majority of fans almost all the time unless he went up to middleweight.

Canelo is also a top fighter, but has more noticeable flaws so the perceived risk he is taking going into certain fights would be higher.

[hugh grant]

We know it should be Floyd or sven ottke or calzaghe

[Phenom]

Canelo, it's not even close. Canelo was green when he took on a prime Floyd while draining down for a CW, Floyd never did that. Canelo twice fought GGG at his best and prime Jacobs; Floyd never fought an elite level fighter at their best.

Now Canelo is about to jump up to fight Kovalev, another big risk.

Canelo was a unified champion when he fought 37 year old Floyd

[GrandpaBernard]

yep Canelo skipped out on rematches with Trout and Lara

Mayweather fought better competition for his weight class in my opinion. When Mayweather won a close fight he fought a rematch. Canelo wins the closest of split decisions over GGG in his boxing home town where he gets such favorable scoring and refuses to ever fight him again even though the majority of viewers thought he lost that fight. Canelo fools gullible fans by weight jumping to fight the weakest champion at a higher weight class instead of fighting the toughest guys in any one weight class. Canelo studies these heavier champs and fights the ones he thinks he can beat instead of fighting one of the best at that weight. Feiding was a very weak champion who had been KOed in two rounds by the real 168 pound champion Callum Smith. Why does Canelo cherry pick Fielding instead of fighting Smith? Canelo was a 12 to 1 favorite to beat Smith so it was not a risky fight at all. He would be no better than even money to beat Smith. Same thing with Kovalev who has shown much weakness and is a 4.5 to 1 underdog to Canelo so the fight is not that risky. Nobody was asking Canelo to fight these weaker heavier champions when he had tough guys to fight at 160. Canelo would not be such a big favorite to beat Jermall or Andrade or GGG. Mayweather rematched Castillo and Maidana but Canelo never rematched Lara or GGG after winning close disputed split decisions.