Let's be honest, Callum Smith QUIT

[elfag]

Pathetic is the right word....at one stage Demetrius Andrade even called him out, saying "he isn't here to win", to which Brian Kenny had to ask him to repeat LOL That is pathetic. Paycheck mugger.

Andrade was amusing, very raw and unpolished as a commentator. DAZN was trying to hype GGG-Canelo 3 and Andrade is just giving whatever his personal opinions are, saying GGG looked old and slow and he dont really want to see that fight. I bet some DAZN execs somewhere are seething when they saw that. Then the girl there is trying to back track it a bit, "you didnt really mean GGG looked slow and old did you" lmao

[elfag]

I think he tried to win throughout the fight. He was just outclassed and super-critics will find fault in anything a fighter does.

Yeah he was trying to win the only way he really knew how. He didnt make many adjustments or try much else, but he was in it for 12 and we seen guys try to spoil, outright quit or non verbally quit - aka look at their corner or ref with puppy dog eyes. Think one fighter did that last night, the guy took a full count and beat the count but stared at the ref giving him the look so the ref waved it off.

All kinds of ways to quit or spoil your way out and Smith never did that.

[Sun_Tzu]

He did the best he could. Some of you guys need to go watch the Rhder fight. Smith wasn't some pvp great coming into this fight. I think he should alot of heart last night, he was clearly out classes.

[Mikeh333]

Smith in that third round should have said OK, I can't win this one on points, it's me or him someone's going out flat on their back, and marched forward, chin to chest and thrown hell for leather until someone got stretchered out.

Easy for you to say. I don’t blame him for staying away. I blame his people for making such a foolish fight for which their man was totally unprepared.

[786]

Canelo is just a beast. He did the same to Golovkin in the second fight.

Not at all. Canelo beat GGG in the second fight but it was a close fight where GGG had his moments. Callum got completely shut out and like Andrade said, didn't look like he was there to win. GGG was trying to win and believed he could which made for a competitive fight. There was nothing competitive about last night's fight and it doesn't resemble the rematch with GGG at all.

[soul_survivor]

Andrade was amusing, very raw and unpolished as a commentator. DAZN was trying to hype GGG-Canelo 3 and Andrade is just giving whatever his personal opinions are, saying GGG looked old and slow and he dont really want to see that fight. I bet some DAZN execs somewhere are seething when they saw that. Then the girl there is trying to back track it a bit, "you didnt really mean GGG looked slow and old did you" lmao

LOL I didnt hear that. I havent seen GGGs latest fight but yeah, he hasn't looked good post GGG/Canelo 2. Sadly, GGG should already have 2 wins over Canelo and the 3rd fight shouldn't even be up for debate.

[Mooshashi]

Sure he quit...that's why he went 12 ROUNDS YOU IDIOTS. WITH A TORN BICEPS MUSCLE.

Smith knew from the first round that he had nothing to offer to keep Canelo off him. If you say he was there to "survive" I'll
grant it to you, but quit...no sir, he did not quit.

[boliodogs]

I agree. He just fought to go the distance knowing full well he could never win fighting the way he fought if you could call that fighting. I recently rated him above Saunders but I take it back. I think Saunders would lose to Canelo but he might win a few rounds and would actually try to win the fight. Smith disgraced himself as a fighter to me anyway. He never actually flat out quit but he never tried to win either.

[Madison Boxing]

he didnt have any sort of game plan or desire to win, he turned up for a pay day and looked to go the 12 rounds and then did what most fighters do and blamed his loss on him struggling to make weight

[Toffee]

Callum actually threw 100 punches in the first two rounds compared to 44 for Canelo so I'm not sure how much more he could have done. And yes, it is definitely rich for people to call him a quitter. Those same people would probably still call him a quitter if he went out guns blazing because they would claim that he allowed himself to get knocked out instead of trying to win for all 12 rounds. Critics are never satisfied.

Agree with most of what you say.

With regard to his punch volume in the first few rounds, it was high, but he seemed more focused on touching him than hitting him. He threw more meaningful punches later in short bursts.

I couldn't understand the plan. Touching Canelo and moving backwards in a straight line. How was that going to impact the fight? Early on he just seemed happy to be registering some light shots while losing rounds.

But that's not quitting, that's just being levels below your opponent. Then he took a beating, stayed on his feet, and kept throwing back. Not a quitter.