Bivol is coming to spar Canelo

This is so ****ing stupid lmao

Irony levels off the charts.

You keep watching Canelo's circus show you naive fool

 

I remember you, you're the guy who couldn't debate my points in another thread where I called his fights as fixed. And I'm calling it a fix based on trends you halfwit. You don't get claim in out of touch and biased when you're rationale for the fights being real is non existent

 

This is just ramblings. You may as well have just deleted this part because nothing was said of value. The only so called "conspiracy theory" I entertain is this blatant fixed affair in Canelo - Kovalev, Yildrim, Smith

Kovalev dominated a much heavier handed counterpunching essentially cruiser (limited in ring IQ) in Yarde with the jab alone. He was in and out of range, putting intent and snap on the jab and other punches. His hesitation to what was coming back was also heightened. These were all thing he demonstrated before against much bigger opponents. Yet he does the opposite against a guy coming up two weight classes and hadnt knocked out anyone at 154lb+ + apart from 140lber paper chin Khan and Kirkland.

Canelo was not doing anything drastically more impressive than Yarde. He was just plodding forwards, often leaning forward to counter, stepping back and moving his head every now and then (let's not pretend Canelo's come forward head movement is good). Kovalev was literally trying not to hurt him, there are countless instances of him not just putting no snap or intent on his punches but pulling his punches. He was slowly pitty pattying away receiving no response from Canelo over and over again, telling him he could put a faster snappier punch in without repercussions from a 160bler, yet he never does so. There are countless openings where Canelo is open to be hit yet Kovalev slowly (instead of throwing fast and snappier which would reduce his chances of getting hit back) pitty pattys away with no intent. He does this throughout the fight. Canelo was eating snappy thrown with intent straights against 36yo GGG and smaller Lara, yet Kovalev with arguably a better jab than GGG, alongside height and reach advantage, cannot put anything behind any of his punches. What is absolutely clear is he is not trying to win the "fight".

To suggest his lack of training camp (there were 2 months + in between fights) and his performance against Yarde (where he dominated bar one round and finished him with a jab) was the reason why he did the above (zero intent/snap on punches, clear openings etc) is pretty laughable. You've claimed, and Kovalevs claimed, he had no energy.. So that prevents you from throwing punches with any snap and causes you to pull punches from round 1 onwards when there are clear openings. I've seen countless exhausted fighters halfway into a fight throw punches with intention and snap actually trying to hurt the opponent. Kovalev did not look exhausted he looked like he did not care. He pitty pattied all night. He could stand up move around the ring, throw slow pitty pat punches (which consume energy just having your hands up and even extending) yet couldn't throw punches with snap and intention. OK

Having a short-camp or coming off a tough fight against a previous opponent is not enough to completely stop you from doing something as basic as committing to your punches by stepping into them and having your arms extended when throwing punches, at least not in the very first round.

This was either an outright fix or Kovalev just simply did not care at all about winning in the slightest. Canelo would certainly have known Kovalev was not trying to take him out or even try to win. Now given several trends in Canelo's fights where opponents try not to win, I have to point towards the fights being fixed.

You are calling what I've claimed absurd yet your argument rests on Kovalevs performance being a result of a short camp and dominating a cruiser - which I've addressed. And I think you're being a bit dishonest saying I'm absurd for these claims. Many, including on this forum (Lufcrazy did a poll 32/94 (34%) thought the fight was a fix) , thought the fight was fix. Professional boxers even hinted at it. Badou Jack is on video suggesting it could have been, Chris Eubank Jr suggested it, and Austin Trout outright called it a fix (twitter). It's far from absurd, and claiming I'm absurd for thinking it is a fix is just ridiculous, especially when you look at the fight itself. The fight itself is suspect at the very least. So you're exaggerating here for the sake of it.

Also, you watch a lot of boxing, there are countless indicators of corruption in boxing - almost every other week there are dodgy scorecards, or a suspect ref, there's also blatant dodgy rankings and associations with certain promotional outlets. This is not to mention all the other behind the scenes shenanigans. Why is a fix so beyond the realms of possibility? I think it's absurd to think otherwise to be honest.

Corruption in boxing is rife, fixed fights are not out of the realm possibility. It was literally run by the mafia. Kinahan himself was involved with MTK. These are just somethings out there. Boxing is clearly corrupt. This is not to mention blatant fixed fights, for what we have seen with Richard Lartey (against that Wardley and others) and Wilder Scott (Wilder literally did not land a punch)

It's telling that a guy who watches so much boxing can't understand this