Alvarez is a good example of how the 24 hour weigh in period allows fighters to exploit this to their benefit and be the much bigger, stronger man. 'Canelo' weighed in at the super middleweight limit last night, outweighing Gomez by about 10lbs. Frochy makes 168lbs easily with a day to spare. It's not hard to imagine in a day and age with no super middleweight division and same day weigh-ins that he'd be a pretty comfortable 175lber. So, if Alvarez couldn't make 160 safely on the day, he'd be an undersized Light Heavy in a time with no super/junior classes. How does he fare against Carl Froch under these rules? To be fair, we'll say over 10 rounds.
The Ginge would take a beating I reckon. Froch is bigger, more suited to the weight, far more experienced against quality opposition and versatile enough to outfight the Ginger, maybe even grinding him down to a late stoppage.
good thread! i shamefully havent seen a lot of canelo at all tbh, so a lot of this is filling in gaps in my knowledge however i believe froch takes this on points, i think canelo could take an early lead, but his advantage at l.midd, is that he is bigger than his opponents, reasonably heavy-handed whilst having good shot selection, but froch would weather the early storm and begin grinding down canelo, lets face it if canelo wants a war froch will oblige and i think the size difference would tell as froch would be able to effectively use his reach advatange through his criminally underused jab
I like to do threads that demonstrate how different the landscape would be under different rules. I actually think Alvarez would benefit so much by moving to 160. Sure, he might not win very fight, but he'd be more comfortable and be able to negate drain training to hone his skills further. Manny and Floyd have flourished fighting at their natural weight against drainers, Canelo should take heed and move up IMO, he's still unlikely to be massively outsized by many.
When I read the title I though Flea had been smoking his **** again, but he actually makes a good point. Although I think Froch would be FAR to strong for the ginge (I'm still not completely convinced he is THAT good tbh). Froch, with his long reach, could well jab Canelo all night if he wanted to. Even with his lack of real world class power, once his right connects, it's game over fr me. Don't forget, this is the lad dropped by the other Cotto.
I wonder if this is what that SSN presenter had in mind when he challenged Groves to step up to the mark and fight Amir Khan :think
Alvarez would take an early lead but would get dropped by Carl in the later rounds, he is too big and strong for him.
christ, did this actually happen? as far as canello, this weekend was the first time ive seen him. he did seem quite forward and back, attacking in straight lines. sort of like a good version of pavlik? i might be very wrong.....
I would imagine Froch would wear him down. Canelo would be a very quick light heavyweight, but Froch is has got all the size advantages over him, plus a granite chin and good power. Froch may get hit a few times but Alvarez' power would do little to him. He'd keep Canelo at a distance, for the most part, and win via TKO in the mid-late rounds.
