Let's be rational about Canelo's Victory

[ruedboy]

Hilarious everyone mentioning Beterbiev. He was a nobody until last week.

Speak for yourself.
Check out some of his fights if you get a chance.
It's called being a boxing fan.

[bojangles1987]

It's still a very impressive victory against one of the best fighters in the division, especially because of the division jump. Give Alvarez his proper due.

[Squ□redCircle34]

Those are all rational views but look at it this way!

Canelo moved up 2 divisions
No catch weight
No tune up for the weight class
Fought the #2 in that division
Fighting for a title in his overall 6th division(he started as a jr welterweight )

Got the knockout over a legit light heavyweight champ who’s proven with a hall of fame career in a fight he was losing and needed a KO to win to escape damaging criticism if it went to the cards

Every sport makes up new rules and changes the status quo so he is officially a 4 division champ which is huge history

He holds belts in 3 divisions currently something that hasn’t been seen since Henry Armstrong arguably the greatest fighter of all time

This is all rational as well, scary thing is he’s still just in the middle of his career and has an outstanding resume!

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

He has the resume. But he got that resume by playing out his career. Now he's at the end and the resume is only useful for reference not as an indicator of his skills at present.

As for Yarde how do you know he's a top fighter? He has no resume.

Kovalev still has legit skills, he showed that last night.

I said Yarde is decent... and he proved that against Kovalev despite his shallow resume. His best win is Sjekloca who was coming off a draw with Stieglitz for the EBU title.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I didn't see the fight but from what I gathered from the majority of the comments on the forum it was more of a non effort from Kovalev rather than a determined effort to win the fight.

Not at all, Kovalev tried to box off the back foot and was winning the fight (albeit not on the cards) prior to the stoppage.

Kovalev was very competitive last night.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Bivol vs Kovi to set up a fight with Canelo

Yeah I like it, it would certainly legitimise Bivol.

I’d love to see Beterbiev-Bivol also. They’re the top 2 in the division IMO

[USMCer]

Canelo stole the show that night.

Nate Diaz, Jorge Masvidal, didn't settle anything.

[eco1]

King Artur says ; here kitty kitty
But that is not a calculated fight

ehhehehheheehehe. Canelo won't go there if there are not 500 rehydration clauses and they guy has to come up with his hands tied to the back while someone handles canelo a *******.

[Tatabanya]

Meanwhile, no one seems to have realized that Kovalev's weakness is not his body. It's his chin, after the sixth round.

[vwelsh]

This is the most irrational thread I’ve ever clicked on.