Canelo winning was best for the sport of boxing

[g27region]

32 is young in boxing these days. They don't consider you old until you hit about 35. People seem to forget fighters were out of the sport by that age back in the day. Look at the top fighters today and the vast majority are 30+

We still have real young lions like Spence, Bivol, who else...Gassiev I don't know...Charlos...That's how young lions look like to me

[Motorcity Cobra]

32 is young in boxing these days. They don't consider you old until you hit about 35. People seem to forget fighters were out of the sport by that age back in the day. Look at the top fighters today and the vast majority are 30+

Crawford-30
Lomachenko-30
Porter-30
D. Garcia-30
Wilder-32
M.Garcia-30
GGG-36
Thurman will be 30 in November
L. Ortiz-72

Just a couple. I remember when your career was winding down at those ages. These guys are just starting to heat up

[Motorcity Cobra]

Remember this when Charlo or Spence get robbed in Vegas

Spence will not beat Canelo.

[-Kev-]

Absolutely. He went up in weight and fought the two best guys there. Cotto, and GGG. One guy he fought twice.

There's more for him to do after a 3rd lucrative fight with GGG, he has Jacobs, Saunders, Charlo and Lemiuex. But at this point, to me, he is pretty proven as a top 5 fighter of the sport along with Lomachenko, Crawford, Mikey.

[g27region]

I get your point but Dervy is not even close to these names and he's upcoming "young" lion who's older than most of these p4p'ers who actually earned their spot by 30

[Eff Pandas]

28-31 sounds more like prime best mix of physical conditions and experience

Eh I'd give a guy a lil more time than that. 27-32 maybe, but regardless I agree with you he's not young.

Most of the great fighters have been shot to sh^t or a shadow of who they were at their best by 35. Just cuz there are some outliers doesn't change the average.

[boliodogs]

1. He's younger

2. He's shown he will challenge himself and fight the best.


Can't say the same about GGG who has never taken a risk in his career. We were told anybody from 154-168 but it was really only Floyd at 154 and Froch or Chavez Jr at 168. Even guys moving up like Brook and Vanes had to fight 160 instead of meeting at a catchweight like 157. His whole U.S. career was about chasing a payday. The most telling part was after the Jacobs tough close fight he shut everything down. He had a fight signed with Saunders but instead of taking the risk he shut everything down in hopes of a Canelo fight, which he got. Even this last go round when Canelo failed a drug test the fans wanted to see him face a hungry young lion like Dervy. But GGG didn't want to take that risk and said it wasn't enough money to fight that fight.

Fans claim they want the best to fight the best but they don't like guys who actually do that, like Canelo and Ward.

We know for a fact we will see Canelo fight the biggest and best names going forward. He's never ducked anybody and never backed down from a challenge.


Say less GGG fans

The best thing for boxing is for the guy who deserved to win to get the win. Most viewers don't think that happened. Let's not get carried away with Canelo taking any challenge and GGG not doing so. A while back Canelo gave up his WBC middleweight world champion belt rather than accept GGG's challenge to fight for it. How is GGG fighting Brook so bad but Canelo picking on harmless fragile Khan is A OK? You don't care about what is good for boxing so much as you wanted to start a thread trashing a boxer you don't like. GGG didn't fight the Russian for obvious reasons. He had the 30 million dollar pay day right around the corner with Canelo and he didn't want to risk that fighting a dangerous guy nor did he want a grueling fight right before rematching Canelo. No other boxer in that situation would have done differently. If no Canelo fight was involved he would have been glad to KO this 12 pro fight wonder. You are a big Ward fan so it's almost a tradition for you to hate GGG. GGG will give Canelo his home town advantage again in May. Canelo could fight him in New York but he won't.

[Jsmooth9876]

Fans wanted him to fight a guy that nobody has ever heard of? Yeah that young hungry lion that has fought nobody.. what a horrendous duck that was. Gonna be right up there with Floyd ducking Margarito in the boxing forums 10 years from now.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Fans wanted him to fight a guy that nobody has ever heard of? Yeah that young hungry lion that has fought nobody.. what a horrendous duck that was. Gonna be right up there with Floyd ducking Margarito in the boxing forums 10 years from now.

When the choice was Vanes or Dervy who was the tougher challenge and who did the fans want him to fight?

[boliodogs]

32 is young in boxing these days. They don't consider you old until you hit about 35. People seem to forget fighters were out of the sport by that age back in the day. Look at the top fighters today and the vast majority are 30+

Boxers and athletes and humans age at the same rate they always have and 32 is just as old as it always was. If 32 is so young why did your beloved Andre Ward and Bradley retire at 33? Some of the good boxers started pretty late so they become champion at an older age. They used to start younger and become champions at a younger age but they still aged at the same rate.