It's great that you can pick and choose the fights which Canelo was prime for. You sound like a GGG fanboy. But yeah, Lara and Trout were either close to his prime, or in it. The difference between Canelo from Lara/Cotto/Kirkland and the GGG/Jacobs fights is very little. The whole 'Canelo improves with every fight' schtick is bollocks. The difference between Canelo in 2015 and 2017 is minor. Certainly not big enough to turn a close deicosn, which he didn't deserve, vs Erislandy Lara to a win over Michael Nunn.
Canelo has his moments but Nunn boxes his tits off and it's pretty conclusive Canelo wins 120 -106 on the scorecards lol
I'm not saying Canelo for sure beats Nunn but he has everything to make it close and Canelo getting the nod since obviously he would've been the cash cow, Canelo has ATG chin and defense no way Nunn stops him, he also has atg skills and counter punching combinations to make it close and even beat Nunn, Don't forget Canelo is still not done he still has a lot of time and WILL be miles ahead ahead of Nunn when he's done.
No, you were winging that people don't blindly follow your cheating hero. Starting off by saying that Canelo beats Nunn by making it close and having the judges in his pocket really doesn't help your case He doesn't need to stop him lmao And then again, they said the same about Kalambay... What he has is a style very similar to James Toney's. A fighter who was much better than Canelo and still nearly lost to Nunn. Canelo wouldn't repeat Toney's win because he doesn't have the workrate, power or skill to set those pucnhes up. And in his actual fights with slick, rangy southpaws, he almost lost both. This bears little to know beating on this fight. Greatness and H2H are completely separate things. And even still, it'd be at middleweight, where Canelo will never fight again. Nunn's middleweight record is one helluva lot better than Canelo's three fights or so.
Wtf has being prime got to do with it? So they dont count unless its todays version of which id imagine you believe to be prime?
I actually would pick Canelo against Nunn. I think he has the same basic areas of strength that made Toney win against Nunn: tough as nails, good defence, body punching and decent power. That said, if Nunn had fought a slightly more intelligent fight against Toney he could have won, and he could likewise beat Canelo.
The problem with the Trout fight was the judges had it lopsided so Trout never stood a chance from the beginning. Which means it was a robbery before the fight ever started. That fight was open scoring , and i remember thinking Trout was ahead clearly after 4 rounds, then when they showed the cards it was a shut out or near shut out for Canelo.
