Canelo failing to stop Charlo is just as poor as Charlo's refusal to engage

Canelo tried to make it a fight, Charlo lost all his confidence once Canelo started countering him to the body and up top. Charlo didn't hold up his part of the deal. We all knew this was a mismatch though. Well most of us did.

 

Delusional.

Do you even know boxing? Its much harder to stop an opponent who doesnt willingfully engage and is on his bike for 95% of the fight.

No one calls Canelo a stoppage machine either against world level comp. He is a pretty good not not great and certainly not elite finisher. 85% of his stoppages against world level comp has come in rounds 9-12.

Canelo has still dropped most his opposition. GGG, Jacobs, Bivol, BJS (who quit on stool), Callum, Cotto, Floyd and Lara are his only opponents in the last decade to not touch the canvas and majority of them have never been knocked down.

 

Casual fan ^
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The OPs conclusion...
This fight was a bigger win for Charlo than it was Canelo.

Is awful trolling or just loony tunes

 

CDS is real.

 

I'm kinda with the OP on this one. I think that pretty much any of the fighters commonly referred to as Mexican Greats (especially having concluded that they were in little to no danger), would have thrown more punches to try to end it. It's not like the pitiful herbivore was successful in eluding Canelo, who appeared to cut off the ring with casual expertise throughout the 12 rds.

Seems to me he could have got the chicken**** into the corner and flat beat him down. I don't understand why he didn't try. He never looked tired. Maybe he didn't want to appear to have to make an effort? Didn't want to muss his hair? In the interviews leading up to the fight (which I rarely watch as I don't want to not like them because of some stupid thing they might say) he seemed to have some level of respect (at least for wide distribution) for the heritage of Great Mexican Boxers whom he wishes to consider himself in the company of. So that kind of contradicts some vanity play.

You can see I'm goin' around in circles here.

So wtf? Canelo (and nearly everybody else, myself included) knew that Charlo putting up much of a fight was unlikely. So why not at least be emphatic about it? So buyer beware? Is he at his house giggling that he ****ed me out of my 90 bucks? The undercard turned out to be **** as well.

 

Canelo hit a wall several years ago when it comes to knocking out opponents. This guy is 5’8” and realistically more like 5’7” and started off at 147. 3 weight classes up, against bigger world class opponents, on the decline in his physical abilities, yeah I think I could see why he wouldn’t be a devastating puncher at 168.

 

OP shouldn't expect every Boxer to be like the lesbian leprechaun, there can only be one in Boxing

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Yes the Charlo sister would have been stopped if it was Kanagawa heavy artillery scoring hits on Saturday night but unfortunately it wasn't, so you should learn to moderate your expectations OP

/end of discussion

Getting serious, it is difficult to stop an unengaged opponent on his bike or shelled up all night. It took Inoue 11 rounds to stop Paul Butler

A younger Canelo might have stopped him but he has mileage on him & is slowing down, loads up for his big shots & doesn't throw many combos

 

It's typically harder to stop an opponent who doesn't want to engage tbf

 

Hard to stop a fighter who isn't willing to fight back. Nothing wrong with Canelo's decision victory.

 

Silly OP. It's like people trying to blame Spence for Mikey Garcia running around the ring. Same fight and it's exactly the comparison I made prior to Canelo/Charlo.

I always buy PPVs, but even I did not purchase this one. Just wasn't interested because I knew what it would look like. Will be the same if Canelo fights Crawford. Dumb matchup.