Floyd Mayweather masterclass against Canelo Alvarez

The judges trying to steal off Floyd was a bigger masterclass

 

Even though Canelo was green it was a superb performance - absolutely superb

 

Was he really that green? He had plenty of fights with experienced fighters (Mosley, control, Lopez) band had come of a big win over Austin trout who had just easily beat cotto and a year later he beat Lara so was he really green?

 

I've maintained for years that this was a shutout and have mostly been dismissed as an outlier on the other end of the spectrum from CJ Ross' absurd 114-114 card...but slowly in retrospect I'm being more and more vindicated as a larger percentage of viewers revisit the fight and overcome the surpassing expectations bias to realize the few rounds Canelo is assumed to have won weren't really clear - or even arguable - for him at all. Just slightly less dominant Floyd rounds.

 

@shadow111

Watch and weep

 

That's what happens when they give him decisions he doesn't deserve. Both Trout and Lara were real close fights, but i thought Canelo lost both. The Mayweather fight, as i recall it, was already signed before the Trout fight.

 

The way i remember it, it was 6 rounds were clear for Floyd, and six rounds were real close. So a 9-3 fight is fair.

 

More like Floyd had six dominant rounds and six closer but clear rounds. There were zero in which a reasonable scorer, viewing in a vacuum with a tabula rasa mind-wipe of all context or knowledge of either man, would say that Canelo was a clear and indisputable winner.

 

Canelo weighed 165lbs on fight night for Floyd, but vs Trout on fight night he weighed 174lbs. Canelo was a middleweight masquerading as a jr middleweight.Lopez was way too small for him, he was barely a welterweight at the time.

 

Canelo wasn't green at all, that's just an excuse made by Floyd haters and Canelo fans.

This was a masterclass pure and simple, I scored it 119-109 to Floyd but 120-108 is perfectly acceptable.