Teddy Atlas: “Canelo is good, but not great”

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  1. Gennady

    Gennady Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Because he didn’t finish the job and didn’t knock out Jacobs. Hagler or SRL would have knocked him out he says.

    Teddy has great thoughts but sometimes he is overdoing it I think.

    Canelo is a natural junior middleweight fighter, Jacobs is a natural super middleweight. No one can expect from Canelo to knock out Jacobs.
     
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    IsaL VIP Member Full Member

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    Thanks for clearing that up Teddy.
     
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  3. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Teddy = Certified Canelo Hater
     
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  4. lepinthehood

    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    Where does canelos future lie, becoming a middleweight great with loads of defences or by beating bigger men at SMW and climbing the weights, because I think Smith will best him, then Smith will go 175 later on, other fighters at SMW give canelo alot of problems. What does canelo do then go back down, you can't keep going up and down as you get older
     
  5. Lazar

    Lazar Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Teddy especially doesn’t like Golovkin but had him beating Canelo in both fights.

    Also, if you need PEDs and judges in your PRIME to cheat an OLD champion out of his titles then you’ll never be great.

    Never.
     
  6. DoubleJab666

    DoubleJab666 Dot, dot, dot... Full Member

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    Sniff, sniff... Teddy seems to have gone a bit 'Sauerland' here....
     
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  7. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    You`re right and Leonard was a natural welter he would not have stopped Jacobs who looked really strong and big, Hagler would have battered him from pillar to post though and maybe got a TKO, different class.
     
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  8. GK BOX

    GK BOX Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Atlas sounds like that grumpy old man screaming GET OFF MY LAWN
     
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  9. Gennady

    Gennady Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Imagine that 3 hour conversation if he is your dad and you are coming home with a failed test.
     
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  10. Manfred

    Manfred Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Ain't nothing natural about Canelo at 154.
     
  11. elmaldito

    elmaldito Skillz Full Member

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    Teddy is right.
     
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    elmaldito Skillz Full Member

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    Ya, he was only 20 lbs more natural then lara fightnight and still got humiliated in the fight.
     
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  13. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Canelo was "humiliated" by Lara ? You must be joking .
     
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  14. Gennady

    Gennady Well-Known Member Full Member

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    He is a midget among the middleweights
     
  15. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Leonard gassed in the Hagler fight the same way Canelo gassed v Jacobs, except Canelo has learned how to be more economical with his footwork making him less prone to gassing whereas Ray moved excessively v Hagler making him gas pretty quickly.