Who would Canelo have to beat

Do you have Braindamage or something? The Fight WAS close to a Draw. It was 95-95 x2 after 10 rounds. Crawford needed to win the last 2 rounds to win the fight.

LOL OK at least you mapped out what he would have to do. I just find it interesting that he has to move up another weight devision and beat two much bigger fighters than him in order to regain a spot that he had before HE moved up to 175 to fight a bigger guy in Bivol and he gave Crawford a shot at 168 which he didn't have to do. He made these big fights, he challenged himself, therefore he should get credit and shouldn't drop from #1 to #10 for having competitive fights against Top P4P Fighters. After all he's already done in the sport and how relatively good he looked in both his losses to Bivol and Crawford. The only thing justifying such a drop is the thing that some of you believe, as to the extent Bivol won or Crawford won which is subjective and frankly shows a lot of favoritism for Bivol due to fandom and a dislike of Canelo. That seems to me to be why we are here so I'm exposing that and calling out those that put us here.

 

Beating any one of those would be career defining and legendary. Needing to beat all 3 to reclaim what he lost is a big ask, especially coming from you who had Canelo already beating Crawford. On the other hand there is the need to physically reclaim what he lost being part of P4P and actually showing that he can beat Crawford or at least in a more convincing fashion.

I think you can say that Canelo didn't perform up to the expectations or the standards that we expect of Canelo, but I think you'd agree that it wasn't a poor performance either. And I wonder if the problem for Canelo is motivational. He seems to have trained very hard in the gym but in his last 2 fights he fought very slick very defensively style slippery fighters and I don't think any of us, fans or non-fans can say that Canelo really passed the test over the last 2 fights against Scull and Bud.

But that doesn't mean he can't pass those tests, part of what is new here is the fact that he's now fighting for the Saudis and there's a different kind of energy going on. There was a definite agenda for this to be Crawford's crowning achievement and especially with it being advertised by WWE and being the first ever of its kind that is a lot to unpack and I don't think we've really scratched the surface of what all went on there but the result of which is that Canelo finds himself #10 on the P4P List and I can't for the life of me understand how he would have dropped so far. Maybe a little bit, but from out of the Top 5 to #10 in a fight that you and others had him winning or at least being very close. Does not make sense to me, I just don't see how a close decision loss to a P4P #1 dropped you out of P4P contention. I mean Canelo could have easily salvaged a draw there with a judge giving him 11 or 12, and I'm asking you to imagine that scenario and where Canelo and Crawford might be ranked if Canelo retained, and lets just say it throws the whole thing upside down.

The main point here and I think it's an important one is the way in which P4P Rankings are nowadays is almost comical. But it's not as if P4P itself is comical. I'm just saying that nothing about canelo being dropped to #10 or how any of this happened makes any logical sense, but it's being done for a reason. A much more sensible result of Canelo losing to Crawford is, Crawford moves to P4P #1, or maybe he doesn't, and maybe Canelo drops a few spots, or maybe he doesn't. But to plummet to #10, in both ESPN and Ring as if they're both holding hands when coming to that decision (think about it) it all seems a little dodgy to me. Now you might not care because you don't care to defend Canelo like you do Usyk Bivol or GGG, and that's fine, but in not doing so you're de facto signing off on this.

Generally it doesn't make sense for two Top 5 P4Pers to Fight to a Close Decision and for one fighter to sky rocket to #1 and the other to fall to #10. And the justification for Crawford being P4P #1 as a result of beating Canelo, and I know you and others disagree and have Usyk #1, is that Canelo was a Top P4P Fighter himself, Top 5 they said. Former #1. This would only make sense (for Crawford to be elevated to #1) if Canelo's P4P Ranking held at least around what it was. For him to drop, that makes no sense. So please, provide some analysis of this situation, if any of this strikes a chord, what does what doesn't.