No **** PBF didn't even have to take the fight he doesn't need Canelo. Canelo puts on 20 pounds on fight night and will dwarf him in the ring. Lets see if Canelo moves up to fight at 160 and he fights a JCC Jr who puts on 20 pounds or more on fight night and see how he and his fans like it.
The guy shouldn't even be fighting at 154. If you're putting on 20 pounds then you're fighting in a class that's too low and you should move up. Most 154 pound fighters put on maybe 10 pounds but 15 to 20 is excessive they do this to pick on smaller fighters but this will backfire on Canelo because Canelo won't have the speed nor the stamina to stay with PBF.:deal
god man... its obvious what happened... canelo said last year 'i'l fight mayweather at 150..' so when it came to negtiations obviously floyd said lets fight at 150 then.. canelo obviously said no so they met half way.. just like ward with dawson, dawson said he'd go to super middle, when it came to negotiations he wanted a catch weight, ward said no... But like somebody above said, the weight loss won't affect him now.. it'l take it's toll in a few years. It'l affect his stamina though, but i mean if you weigh in .5lb below the limit then you know you made weight without any troubles so 1.5lb more isn't a big deal.
weight classes are defined on what a fighter weighs on a scale the day before a fight. weight classes are not defined by what a fighter weighs at the time of the fight.
kirkland(174), lara(172) and angulo(174) all rehydrate close to 20 pounds after the weigh-in. are these guys weight drained as well?
I understand that but the weight issue is real and something that guys do for an advantage. The 15 to 20 pounds is very real on fight night and he weighs as much as a SMW.
angulo, lara and kirkland all weigh over 170 on fight night. kirkland was 174 against molina and angulo was 174 against lara. canelo was 172 against trout. some guys can cut 20 pounds and some guys cant. it is what it is.
Trout put on almost exactly the same amount of weight after the weigh-in as Canelo did in that fight. Trout weighed 1 lb less than Canelo did after re-hydrating. Should Trout not be fighting at 154 also? This whole re-hydration BS is a recent phenomena. the goal is to make the weight. once you make the weight, you are free to put on as much weight as you want in 24 hours. the idea that "he shouldn't be fighting at 154" because he puts on lbs after the weigh-in is ludicrous. And to be honest, that type of thinking is what gets people thinking that catchweights are normal, and they are not.
Relax......nelo is fine. He wasn't going to win at 154......he won't win at 152....but the weight has nothing to do with the outcome. Floyd has everything to do with the outcome. That's if I'm right and Floyd wins a decision.
and that's hardly a reason for his opponents to demand a catchweight. FMJ is trying to make his own rules up to make it harder on Canelo. The weigh-in rules state you just have to make the sanctioned weight on the day of the weigh-in. Catchweights below that weight or re-hydration clauses are desperate attempts to gain a competitive advantage over an opponent that would othewise not exist. To demand something like that a sign of weakness any way you spin it.
I like how the guy coming in as a Super Middleweight is supposedly at a "weight disadvantage" against the guy maxed out at 151....the twisted minds of some of these boxing fans is fascinating
Here's one of many articles, from a ******* newspaper no less which directly quotes Canelo as saying he is willing to fight at 150. I'm surprised they didn't hold him to that. Not hard to figure out which team is lying here. link