How can "boxing" fans actually defend this?

Well what do you expect him to say? "I'm scared of GGG, I'll wait until he gets old"? Weight problem is the excuse he comes up with.

 

At the end of the day he don't have the skills to beat Goodlovin so let him use whatever excuse makes him feel best

 

Canelo and his team know his body better than any fan does. If he feels he's not ready to make the jump to a full fledged MW, than that's his prerogative.

I'd have a bigger issue with the Cotto fight if Alvarez had campaigned at the full 160 before. He hasn't though, and he wants his body to slowly acclimate into the weight class. Sorry that makes you so angry abuffy.

And truthfully, I can see why GBP is taking their time with Alvarez since he's their cashcow and he's only in his mid 20's.

Canelo and Cotto aren't Middleweights. Cotto is 35, so it's fair to say he'll never fight at the full 160. ALvarez still has time on his side so I'd expect him to make his jump to the full 160 within the next year or 2.

Maybe Gennady should redirect his attention towards actual Middleweights and quit wasting time on either of these JMW fighters. Whoever wins that match will probably vacate the WBC belt, and Gennady will have what he's been incessantly craving, another paper belt to add to his collection.

 

You have to understand, Mayweather ducked Margarito for 10 damn years.

 

I agree, I think this catch weight stuff has gone too far.

 

haha bumlovkin will get those worthless belts from another mw can.

everybody knew this would happen except golov****s who thought canelo would fight ggg right away.

ggg will have to wait for canelos body to be ready for 160
or accept a 155 fight

 

Shouldn't Goodlovin be thinking about Quillin, Sturm, Jacob, Eubank, ya know actual middleweights?

 

Well that's not true at all.

I don't think there's any fighter in the history of the sport where if they were given the option of either fighting for the UNDISPUTED WW championship and 8 million dollars or a non-title fight for 8 million dollars that they'd pick the non title bout. We're talking about a slow plodding Margarito FFS. His style would be very easy for FLoyd to dissect. The difference in handspeed and footspeed would be way too massive for Antonio to overcome.

 

Canelo and Cotto are fighting at middleweight.

I think Canelo would be the most competitive fight at middleweight for Golovkin, followed by Quillin.

Quillin is very dangerous because of his power, but Canelo has better all around boxing skills.

 

LOL!!!!

Floyd has been on steroids since the Ortiz fight unless you can somehow convince me that it's normal for an athlete of Mayweather's quality to walk around with the testosterone of a 257 year old man.

And even a roided up Mayweather got the **** beat outta him by Maidana the first time, who was robbed by the judges.

You know DAMN WELL that Margarito was the real player at 147 that everyone wanted to see Mayweather fight, especially after he whupped Cotto.

Mayweather CLEARLY DUCKED HIM.

He had ample opportunity. Why didn't he fight Margarito after his Baldomir fight?

Wow, didn't think of that, did you?

LOL.

Don't tell me you were that stupid.

Everyone would have preferred Margarito over anybody else at the time. That would have been a great fight, and give how Mayweather struggled so much against Maidana, an unroided Mayweather gets stopped.

 

Ok, let me break this down for you.

This all starts and ends with Miguel Cotto. He's the first lineal MW champion that i can remember that actually won the title without ever campagining at the full 160. It's odd and it's definitely uncharted waters, but Maravilla agreeing to that 159 lb stipulation basically openened up the floodgates to allow Cotto to continually defend the belt under the 160 limit.

Do I like fighters not campaigning at the full limit? Absolutely not, but Cotto started this trend at MW and Sulaiman has allowed him to continue to do so regardless if it's right or not.

In the case of ALvarez, why should he be criticized for taking on Cotto at 155 lbs? Cotto wouldn't fight him anyway at the full 160, so it plays perfectly into Canelo being able to fight him immediately.

Anyway, what does it matter? Sanchez, Loeffler and Golovkin have mentioned countless times all they care about is the WBC belt and not the opposition themselves. The winner of Cotto-Canelo will more than likely vacate the belt, so Gennady gets what he wants, another belt. He doesn't really care about the glory because if he did, we all know who he'd be fighting next.

I personally don't have a horse in this race, so overall I have an insouciant disposition. But I can see both sides to the argument, it would be nice to see the winner of Cotto-Canelo campaign at the full 160, but no one can force them to. They're cash cows at this juncture in their careers and usually call the shots in their fights.

 

Damn, shut the **** up.

I want to see the fight with both men not drained.

What the **** is wrong with you???

Why wouldn't you want to see the best versions of both men. You're not a boxing fan.

Just shut the **** up.

For real.

Get the **** outta here.

Right now.

Get the **** out.