Funny, in the time that GGG was in self imposed exile Canelo moved up in weight, captured the WBA SMW world Title (same version GGG captured against Milton Nunez) moved back down to MW and beat Daniel Jacobs. GGG comes back and takes on the monster Steve Roles.
My point being that you have different energy for Canelo than you do for other fighters. Jacobs was a good win, off the back of a garbage fight. He didn't exactly have a 12 round war with Jacobs that's going to take years off of his career, so demand a little better from the world champions in this sport. He doesn't have to fight an 'elite' next, that's fine. There aren't many elites in the sport. He should still be defending those titles against the best available guy though, and that ain't Munguia. He could announce a 12 round shadow boxing session as a title defence and I'm sure you'd find a way to defend it
Nope. I have the same level of expectations for every fighter. Lets say Canelo had GGGs resume and vise versa, I would be ragging on Canelo and giving GGG mad props. The fact that After Canelo beat GGG, three months later he moved up in weight, captured a SMW title, then moved back down and fought the #2 MW in Jacobs is more than what GGG has done in that time. Furthermore, GGG has a crap resume, Canelo does not.
Fielding was a trash fight, hop off with that nonsense trying masquerade it as something meaningful. Poor-good-poor isn't what we should be demanding on a fighter's record. I don't want that from a world champion, especially not a genuine elite fighter like Canelo. You wouldn't rag on him at all, you didn't even rag on him when he failed PED tests. If Canelo was done for noncing you'd be the first one screaming "BUT SHE DOESN'T LOOK 14" Adding an edit because I can't remember if it was you or shadow who basically refused to **** on the PED test failures but I was too happy with the above comment to just completely remove it. We ride and die babay.
You're using too much emotion, especially that last bit you typed. Fielding was three months after fighting GGG. How many elite fighters take a tune up three months after a big difficult fight? Besides it was a title fight, the same version that GGG held for many years and got credit for. I don't mind elite fighters taking tune ups/stay busy fights here and there or in between top fights. I do think its rather lame for GGG to fight Roles, and his next fight be against a 154 lb fighter.