Credit to Canelo for consistently fighting good opponents

Best grab my popcorn

 

mungia vs ggg should be happening.

 

That's why we need to applaud Canelo. He has been carrying boxing for years and has faced the best out there. Just look at how often he has fought compared to Crawford, Spence or anyone else. And not only has he fought more often, but he's fought far better competition when he has fought. At SMW, he beat undefeated Champion after undefeated Champion after undefeated Champion en route to Undisputed and after he did that people acted like he didn't fight anybody. Then he moves up to 175 to fight Bivol, even in a losing effort that was a ballsy move, then will fight GGG 4 months later. It's just crazy the amount of risks this guy consistently takes.

 

Props to Alvarez for daring to be great. Hope he fights Benavidez soon.

 

Dude literally gives GGG the belt in order to avoid Golovkin in his prime, but yet you call him a guy who takes on all comers. You can't make this **** up.

Where do you guys come up with this stuff?

 

Clenelo is in a unique position as he brings the big bucks, so no opponent is really going to turn him down.

 

I don't think such a commanding A Side has fought such a high calibre of opposition since Mike Tyson unified the HW division in the late 80s.

Canelo has taken the high risk low reward fights that A side guys never face. The likes of Trout, Lara, BJS, Plant and Bivol.

He also fought Golovkin and Kovalev who no one would ever have predicted he would face.

At MW he defended against Jacobs who was far and away the best available contender.

He fought every SMW belt holder within 2 years.

He calibre of opposition cannot be knocked.

 

He’s the new ODLH from that perspective.

 

Please delete Fielding from your list, thank you. He was not the world champion. Surely you know the difference between world and the sanctioning bodies money grabbing, interim/regular nonsense scams!

 

I get your point but technically Yildirim wouldn't be, like you said he's a bum.

Also Fielding wasn't a real 168 champion.

However I generally agree with your main point, i.e. that Canelo has been fighting quality opposition with only a few exceptions.

Sadly, much of the rest of the 160-175 divisions are sitting around keeping their 0s in hopes of a Canelo payday.

 

Just because they won't turn it down dont mean anything if you yourself aren't willing look at Mayweather everyone wanted it but he fought rarely and avoided challenges

 

Canelo fought champions but with the exception of Jacobs and Bivol they were weak champions. He might be fighting champions but he's not fighting the best fighters. I think he got a gift with Jacobs.