Before the Canelo fight, seemed like it would be competitive. Now everything is up in the air with Smith. What the hell was that performance against Canelo, especially considering there was no rehydration limit. He got bashed up by a guy basically two weight divisions beneath him. Okay, so there's always the roid issue with Canelo, but still. He barely won a round. Even Kovalev won many rounds despite being a ghost of himself. People acted like Golovkin got beat up by Canelo because he was marked up a little in the second fight, but Golovkin actually hurt Canelo more than he was hurt himself. Smith never hurt Canelo and ended up with a broken nose/arm and so on, despite being a giant compared to Golovkin. Maybe Smith has an easier time against Kovalev because he's easier to hit than a compact fighter, but at this stage I'd pencil Kovalev in for a TKO. Smith has a good chin, so I'd predict it's a ref or corner stoppage. Having said that, Smith might go up to 175 and look really good, who knows. But it wasn't even competitive with Canelo, that's the scary thing.
I think Canelo hurtG plenty in the second fight there's a reason he didn't go to the body that's G's mo go to the body and break a man down
He wasn't a ghost of himself, he was still a force to be reckoned with. Kovalev won rounds because unlike Smith, Kovalev has a good jab, and since Canelo was fighting at LHW he fought more cautiously, and he was slightly slower than usual from the weight gain. I don't know what you guys would do without me breaking this stuff down for you. This is pretty basic stuff but you're talking like you have no clue about why this happened. Hahahaha that's a funny one. Canelo ate GGG's jabs like skittles, GGG got the beating of his lifetime. The level of delusion on here in regards to Canelo and GGG never ceases to amaze me. Yup he was a giant, but he clearly doesn't have the boxing skills of GGG or Kovalev. Doesn't know how to jab, block, use his size, reach advantge, etc. Smith was hyped a lot on here before the Ryder match, but he turned out to be disappointing. Canelo schooled that dude. I don't know what happened to Callum Smith. But the version who fought Canelo would be destroyed by Prime Kovalev. By destroyed I don't know if that means he'd be stopped or not because Smith clearly has a granite chin. Though the question becomes was Callum Smith a better fighter a few years back than he was vs Ryder or Canelo? Did he become worse? And if that's the case then you could argue he's not Prime anymore as has been argued for Kovalev. But the difference is that while Kovalev has become more chinny than Smith, he seems to have retained much of his speed / skills that he had in his prime. If we're to compare Prime Kovlaev, before Ward lets say, before he bacame chinny, to current Callum Smith, or to Callum Smith maybe when he looked better a few years back, then who knows. I guess the other side of the coin is who would win now - current Kovalev vs current Callum Smith, that's a more apt comparison. Could Callum Smith hurt Kovalev, does he have the power? Or was it just a bad styles matchup for Callum Smith against Ryder and Canelo, and would he match up better with Kovalev? Something tells me he would, even vs Prime Kovalev because he matches up better size-wise with Kovalev than vs Canelo. He just couldn't land on Canelo due to Canelo being so elusive. Maybe vs Kovalev, Smith would have an easier time preparing since they match up better size-wise. Styles make fights and I do think with the right strategy he certainly has the frame and the reach to cause Kovalev problems. But does he have the slill? Did he ever have the skill? Probably not which is why he would probably get destroyed. But current Smith vs current Kovalev, at 175? I think you'd have to favor Kovalev now given the weight advantage.
No he won't, Kova would be more aggressive and stopped earlier, stop with the fansty fights because in reality Canelo son them both!
