Sugar Ray Leonard said he had Canelo beating GGG in the rematch . . .

GGG lost. Not only did he lose but he got beat "Mexican style" which made Canelo's victory so much sweeter. Do you have nightmares of Canelo winning those belts?

 

Well it sounds like you're really struggling with what happened and you continue to deny what happened. When you say things like all Canelo needed to do was stay standing at the end and he'd win, it's hard to take you seriously as a boxing fan.

With statements like that you sound like a sore loser. It's obvious that the loss crushed you as a GGG fan, and your continual whining about it is getting old. You need to man up and accept the reality of what happened. Canelo won fair and square not because of some judging conspiracy but because he won more rounds than GGG.

 

Because GGG wasn't outworking Canelo in the rematch. Backing up and throwing range finding jabs does not require as much work or energy as coming forward and loading up on power shots one after the other.

In the first fight what you call taking large portions of rounds off was a strategy to frustrate GGG and set him up for power shots, and it worked ! In the middle rounds when Canelo started moving away and taking portions of the rounds off if you will, during those lulls in the action, GGG wasn't able to land either so neither was able to land when that was happening. And when GGG was able to close the distance Canelo would constantly use head and upper body movement to make GGG miss.

So Canelo was using a much higher level skill set in how he fought the first fight than how GGG fought the rematch, so what GGG did in the rematch wasn't better than what Canelo did in the first fight. That would be like saying that Sugar Ray Leonard didn't deserve to beat Duran in the rematch because he didn't stay close enough to him as he was backing up. SRL was only able to get Duran to say no mas by providing extreme outboxing. If he just moved away slowly while staying close to Duran (like GGG did in the rematch) it wouldn't have worked or frustrated Duran to the extent that it did that night.

Canelo utilized a brilliant gameplan in the first fight to confuse and frustrate GGG while managing to land the higher quality power punches throughout the fight. What GGG did in the 2nd fight was a reaction to what Canelo was doing, which showed an unwillingness for GGG to stand there and trade with Canelo and more importantly showed GGG backing down from the kind of fight that he asked for out of Canelo.

 

The easy route? Coming right at GGG, going toe to toe with GGG and staying in the pocket all night is taking the easy route? That's what you wanted Canelo to do wasn't it? I thought "running" like Canelo was accused of doing in the first fight was taking the easy route, to avoid GGG's power, no?

That would be like saying that SRL took the easy route in the first fight with Duran, and in the 2nd fight inexplicably decided to make the fight harder on himself by using his boxing skills.

 

This is confirmation bias my man and a kind of reverse psychology that went on amongst GGG fans going into the rematch to have a built in excuse if GGG lost. I know very well that many GGG fans predicted that Canelo was winning a decision. Of course the same prediction was also made about the first fight and that didn't happen. And there were also many GGG fans who predicted Canelo would be knocked out and that didn't happen either.

Surely you've heard the saying that a broken clock is always right twice a day. Just because you or many GGG fans predicted Canelo would win a decision due to what you believed was corruption or favorable judging doesn't prove that Canelo didn't win the fight all by himself.

Now you're just getting silly. He won "because" he's a drug cheat? That doesn't even make any sense. You have no way to know if what you are saying here is actually true. You ignore the high probability of contaminated meat just like you ignore what Canelo did in the ring. You are jumping to conclusions here in ways that suit you. As much as you want so badly to believe that Canelo's a drug cheat and that there was favorable judging, there's no way for you to prove either. Face it : These are only your theories, theories that makes you feel better as a means to not have to admit Canelo was the rightful winner.

GGG just didn't do enough to win enough rounds to win that fight. You cannot deny that while GGG did very well in the last 3-4 rounds, he was not able to equal that output or have that kind of success in the first 6-8 rounds. If GGG would have came out with the eye of the tiger and made Canelo pay early in that fight, GGG would have been on his way to winning the decision. Halfway through the fight, it was abundantly clear that Canelo was winning and was in complete control of the fight, so much so that GGG's late rally was pretty surprising given how well Canelo was doing in the first half of the fight. In the rematch, the judges cards very accurately depicted what happened in the rounds.

Saying that Canelo is the "judges darling" is just another way to say that he does a lot of the little things that impresses the judges and wins him rounds. It's insulting to the sport for you to act like all Canelo needs to do is show up and he'll automatically win fights. He went to war with GGG over 24 rounds, and in the 2nd fight he took the fight directly to GGG and landed the better punches. GGG landed more jabs but more of the telling blows were landed by Canelo. I know you'll never admit that but you should to save whatever credibility you have left. The fact that you point to you predicted all this makes you look even worse, as it shows that you had a preconcieved notion of what was going to happen. That's precisely the wrong attitude to take going into a fight and it screams of you being extremely biased and giving yourself a built-in excuse if GGG were to lose.