I don't think it's that great. Canelo being this demolition guy comes from him battering people like Amir Khan in complete mismatches or naturally fragile and/or past-it guys like Saunders, Plant and Kovalev. The Callum Smith fight was a big tell looking back at it - Canelo won every round and turned Smith into a punching bag, but never once came close to stopping him. I wish I had studied that fight some more before Bivol as I admit I too got carried away with Canelo's power after 2021
These days he clearly has big power at 160-168, even 175 maybe, but only after a lot of chemical work. Saunders is tough, never damaged, and his face was broken by one punch. That's not normal. Plant is tough and pretty big. KO'd with a clean shot. Smith is huge and tough. Beaten up and overpowered. Kovalev was drained and not quite recovered from Yarde, but look at the shots he'd taken off Yarde, Pascal etc., and Canelo finished him basically with a clean hook then a flush RH put him into the ropes. Golovkin was very wary of him after the first fight. When has Golovkin been wary except versus Lemieux. Canelo miraculously started beating up naturally bigger fighters and overpowering them, KO'ing them, after failing to hurt smaller fighters like Cotto etc. It is the most obvious example of PEDs in recent times, basically. To put this into perspective with his rival Golovkin, Golovkin was always a big hitter. You can see him dropping Bute in the amateurs, who fought at 168/175 and had a good chin. Froch needed about 100 clean shots to stop him. Golovkin didn't go from not hurting 140lb size fighters to KO'ing middleweights and up. He had highlight KO's of middleweights from the beginning of his pro career.
Canelo is more explosive than powerful, sure he have some power but his KO’s coming from quick, explosive and accurate shots that the opponent doesn’t see.
He had good power as a young boxer. These days it seems he goes to the distance more. But I rated him good.
I don't side with fighters because of their ethnic backgrounds, I pick fighters because of skill, ring generalship etc. Canelo looks impressive facing fossils like GGG but he looked horrible vs Dmitry Bivol, who outclassed him over 12 rounds, where was Canelo's power in that fight? Artur Beterbiev would take out Alvarez inside of 10 rounds, so he had a few wins since he last lost, so. My deceased Nana could have beaten GGG when he last fought Alvarez.
I believe it. Zurdo looks like an arm puncher and despite his size, is only average in the power department.
I think it's decent, slightly above average. I still don't see how he Ko'd Kovalev and I'll never understand that. Everyone else he stopped, none of those stoppages really surprised me. Nobody that he stopped was really known for their durability.
Ask Bivol he will tell you Canelo's power as it was definitely there that night & in his own words he felt it, it's just that Bivol kept great distance, didn't over commit with his punches & then some which is why the result differed.
