Canelo just given WBO # 1 spot

yeh i know but it is insulting. 3G is one of my favs. i prefer boxing gentlemen.

 

Politricks.

 

who do you object to? Saunders, Lemieux, or Canelo?

 

canelo. it just makes me angry to see the G sidelined. He deserves better.

 

As long as he fought above the 154 limit and within the 160 range then he did fight at Middleweight. The ranking system could care less about your approval of "full mw limitz".

 

i agree. i think it is more De La Hoya though.

 

If I'm struggling to make 160 and some guy drains me down to 155, he's not fighting me at my best and he's gaming the system.

Clearly not.

 

There we're people begging a fight with GG at 160 without fighting once at 160

 

How is GGG NOT Number 1 on WBO rankings ?

 

Because he has all the other belts, you won't get ranked then.
It's a stupid rule all alphabets have for some reason. If you own another belt, you're not ranked in their top15.

 

Drained or whatever, it's still officially considered MIDDLEWEIGHT. Which is why the Middleweight titles will be on the line if a Champion is involved. As long as you make the official limit for Middleweight, YOU ARE FIGHTING AT MIDDLEWEIGHT. If two light middleweights are fighting and one shows up at the weigh in weighing 154.1 then he will be officially considered a Middleweight and will be penalized for failing to make the light middleweight limit. Understand?, catch my drift?, namsayin?. Don't blame the players, blame the system.

A lot of Golovkin fans are far too mentally slow to understand this, and I've been finding myself year after year repeating the same exact point...

 

Well, Canelo had the #1 WBO 160 lb ranking before as he was the 154 lb WBO champion and the WBO has a rule that the champion of a lower weight class gets the #1 spot when he moves up. Canelo didn't make use of that because he fought Golovkin instead, so the WBO had no obligation to reinstate Canelo as #1. However, Canelo wanted the #1 spot back for bargaining power as he discusses the Golovkin rematch and the WBO agreed.

Bottom line: The WBO clearly likes Canelo (or to be precise, the money associated with Canelo), but this is not particularly shocking or out of the ordinary.

 

These Boxing organisations want their belts to be held by cashcows or atleast by fighters plying their trade out of America where average income from their fights is a little higher. They cant control everything and they cant control how good fighters are guna get and who wins fights but they can fiddle around in the background and play their game of chess putting Boxers into better or worse positions to help get to the end result they hope for.

After no doubt a little back hander and a wink from Oscar im sure the WBO would be more than happy to see the belt around the waist of Canelo who will bring them a hell of alot more money than Saunders or Lemieaux.

 

If Canelo does not do the rematch with Golovkin next then it's a duck, it really as that simple.


And I don't want none of this "smart business move" rubbish, it's a blatant duck, the rematch clause was in the contracts, it's not difficult to do.

Joshua has been slaughtered, people on here have said he is ducking half the heavyweight division for not agreeing to Twitter call outs and ridiculous demands so Canelo has no excuses.

 

This.

Canelo lost #1 and he knows he will lose #2 unless he can age GGG into oblivion. We'll see Canelo calling GGG out in 2022 and then saying he's a ducker for being retired.