It'd be a competitive fight and Canelo would have his moments but I just think Ward is too crafty and that his long guard would give Canelo a lot of problems, with Ward having similar successes to Bivol and Plant had with using frames and shoves to off-balance Canelo and force him to reset.
Ward, up on the cards, low blows Canelo into corner retirement somewhere around the ninth to spend more time with his surviving testicle.
Ward schools him. There’s levels to this ****, Ward already has the style to beat him if they were the same size, but on top of that he’s bigger.
Clenelo's best wins at 168 Callum Smith - short camp, barely any sparring or decent sparring, froze on the big stage, suffered a freak bicep injury, coming off almost a year of inactivity and an unofficial loss in his previous fight where he looked terrible Berlangy who is trash Shot 40 y/o GGG who Clenelo shamelessly ducked the trilogy fight with for years until GGG and only manned up and popped his head out of the coop when GGG was a pensioner 154 Jermello who hadn't fought in 16 months or above 154 William Scull who is trash Caleb Plant who is C level Juan Ryder who is C level BJS who lost on a freak eye injury after ducking into one of Clenelo's Clenbuterol bombs. Once BJS actually started to relax and not let the occasion get to him anymore he started taking Clenelo to slick school prior to suffering the injury Kessler would 100% beat Clenelo he has too much of everything not to
Ward would win a UD. But.... is the ref going to look the other way when hes throwing headbutts and lowblows and wrestling? Are the judges going to be on his side? If there's a no nonsense ref or one that is bought and payed for by team Clenelo? I can see prime Clenelo doing alright and if he can win 3-4 clear rounds the judges might give it to him.
Both had some powerfully corrupt judges and people behind the scenes backing them. Depends which side the judges are. It would certainly go to points cause neither can't punch much.