Does Canelo going for more belts almost go against the spirit of boxing?

A fighter seeking belts is not my favorite thing but there are good reasons for it. There are a plethora of weight classes and four belts in each of them. Such is the current boxing landscape. Alvarez is continuously looking for new challenges to stay motivated and to make money. There aren't many boxers who can challenge him so collecting world championships is his goal. While I much prefer a boxer staying at and dominating one weight class, ala Gennady Golovkin, you cannot knock Canelo for trying to win world championships. After all, that is the ultimate goal.

If there were less weight classes and just one champ in each this kind of stuff wouldn't happen very often. A belt would have considerably more significance than it currently does and winning a title at another weight class would be more difficult because the opponent would be the lineal champion.

Also, Alvarez is not the first one to do it. Certainly, Sugar Ray Leonard laid the groundwork for the modern-day belt chaser. I think I'll blame him. LOL

 

They are collectors items for him, he is chasing numbers for his legacy.

He can so he is going for the belts, numbers talk it is just way it is, it is down to the champions he faces to stop him, to date other than Floyd no one has.

 

So, um, the argument here is that we dont want the best fighters facing each other? Hmm... Sounds like im back on the forum alright.

 

The 168 clean up was just that—Canelo sweeping a weaker division and now he is challenging himself at 175.

I can live with all this bouncing around as it just highlights he’s always been a bigger fighter than he “claimed” or “wanted “ to be depending who was down the path waiting for him

 

Maybe it doesn't sit well with you because it's just disguised cherrypicking? I wonder when dominating one division became a bad thing.

 

Chasing challenges is good, but picking off easy champions as the A-side, then vacating to avoid dangerous opponents is not why the system of world champions was created. It was created so the best fight the best and then we know who the best is without a debate amongst deluded and subjective fans.

Canelo has taken boxing corruption to the next level. He is popular with teenage Mexican teenagers, casuals in general, and nut huggers who claim they are boxing aficionados. He clearly takes PEDS, that is undeniable, the only argument now is how much. He has had numerous gift decisions, but stealing the belts from Golovkin was probably the worst in terms of how badly he lost and how much he stole. Since then he has continued PEDding his resume with selected scalps. There was something seriously wrong with the Kovalev fight, Callum Smith was not given time to prepare, and he has beaten some weaker champions.

He is nowhere near P4P given a past prime GGG was clearly a better fighter. PED boy has now waited this long to ensure GGG is a brown banana in terms of how ripe he has become.

To me, boxing corruption, which started with the multi-belt era (htf can there be 2 world champions?) has allowed Canelo to exist because he brings in the big bucks when all the casuals watch his fight and squeal like little girls when he wins. The end game is boxing dies because of the corruption.

 

I'm still amazed that Canelo was awarded all the super middleweight belts without fighting the best boxer in that division.

 

Benavidez is a harder fight that Bivol. Similar styles but Benavidez is longer and more powerful.

 

Might be the dumbest take I've read on here in some time.

 

Every boxer is "ducking" every fighter they arent in training camp for, by definition.

You judge what happens in the ring. Not what doesnt happen or what you wish would happen. Thats wack and explains a lot of the moaning and bewildering opinions some people regurgitate endlessly on here. Because they dont want to judge what is actually happening or has happened.

 

match fixing? haha, ok.

 

Alvarez's weakness is for uppercuts to his chin, so, therefore, any prime, decent heavyweight he faces with a good uppercut is going to KO him to sleep and that is why he would be best off retiring ASAP>

 

nothing wrong with what canelo is doing imo.