Canelo Alvarez vs Michael Nunn

Nunn wins a comfortable decision on any scorecard. The difference in footspeed is immense. Canelo would look like he was standing in cement next to Nunn. With his speed and height/reach advantages, Nunn wins without any real danger of getting hurt.

 

Except on a Canelo/Oscar scorecard.

 

The Lara fight would suggest Canelo loses comprehensively on the cards. Unless Canelo can lure Nunn into an ambush where he can deploy a counter attack hard enough to win by stoppage.

 

This is a pretty close fight. Canelo's big advantage here is his constitution and his cement chin; he might be able to out-tough Nunn the same way Toney did.

 

Nunn would completely outsped Canelo with superior hand and foot speed. Nunn 10-2 rounds.by the way Nunn has an excellent chin, only stopped once in 60 fights and 3 weight classes.

 

I mostly agree with this. Nunn could be trouble for just about any middle weight. A better question is could Nunn win with the judges?

 

You are going sit here and say Canelo has a “tighter defense” than James Toney? James Toney who was a defensive wizard. WoW. Objectively so many things wrong with that, but setting that complete nonsense aside, Nunn didn’t have a glass jaw. He certainly wasn’t GGG or Hagler with their chins that were made on a different planet, but it wasn’t glass either.

 

Tighter as in Toney slipped shots but Canelo blocks them with a high guard.

 

Canelo`s counters are quicker than Nunn`s were, he lands more counters than Nunn did.

 

Canelo is better than Toney defensively? That's a incredible reach to say the least.
Nunn was beating Toney convincingly until he got caught. Canelo isn't in Toney's ball park as far as skill level is concerned.
Nunn beats Canelo pretty easy in my opinion. Canelo is perfectly made to lose to a fighter like Nunn. Canelo is short, He isn't a very dangerous puncher, he isn't particularly fast, or skilled, or has shown the endurance necessary to wear Nunn down in a long fight. Plus Nunn was a damn southpaw.
Nunn wins this fight easier than most would imagine.

 

Nunn struggled with Starling`s high guard, Canelo would have been caught less by Starling thanNunn was, Michael`s southpaw style counted against him v Marlon cause he kept eating straight rights and Canelo is an amazing counter puncher.

 

I think that Michael Nunn has a real good chance, since the rumor is that Saul Canelo Alvarez has split with Oscar De La Hoya, Golden Boy, and DAZN. Michael is much more quicker, landing good quick combos, and avoiding the counters thrown by Canelo, Michael by a comfortable points margin.

 

Nunn late tko

 

I don't think there could be a worst style matchup for Canelo. Nunn would win and win comfortably. Too big and fast and he won't engage to give Canelo that counter which Canelo usually needs.

 

Nunn supposedly went missing weeks before the Starling fight and basically rocked up on fight night having not trained. He was already a massive cokehead even by that point and was stagnating and going backwards. Not the fighter who whipped Tate and decimated Kalambay; the manner in which took out Kalambay probably did him no good either in the long run and probably gave him an inflated opinion of himself that wasn't helped by his already existing coke habit and lack of focus. Starling was better defensively than Alvarez anyway imo and a more skilled fighter in general, and Nunn clearly underestimated him. It's just as easy to point to Alvarez basically losing to Lara and looking poor against Rhodes, Matthew Hatton, Khan for five rounds and failing to take a round off Mayweather as it is to point out that Nunn kept copping Starlings right when he visibly couldn't be arsed.