Hurricane Carter vs Canelo

Carter by KO

 

Canelo is yellow. No way he hangs with Carter.

 

They call me Canelo yellow is that the Donovan song?

 

Carter by a ko in 1 or 2. Canelo doesn't stack up too well with most top middleweights of history.

 

Canelo would be the favourite but a Carter win wouldn't surprise me.

 

Carter was a shocking puncher, but he was also pretty beatable.

 

But not by Canelo.

 

I could buy that.

 

Which 24 year old would you favour over Carter?

 

Don't think it matters...it's like..."is it closer to Cleveland than here or by bus?"

 

It does matter mate.

You're a big fan of Rodrigo Valdez, if you was to only judge him on what he achieved by age 24 you'd never favour him to beat Carter.

But given the full perspective of his career you now would.

It's far too early to write Canelo off in historical context.

 

I'm following what you're saying luf, but remember, so many different fighters careers follow different trajectories...they peak at different ages....Wilfred Benitez, Mando Ramos, Mike Tyson, etc.,.....and then plummet to earth....and no, it isn't time to write off Canelo,...I just don't think he cuts it, whatever the comparative age factor,...to so many of the middleweight champions of the past....and he wouldn't have gotten as far as he's gotten today had he competed in earlier ages. For the record, Rodrigo Valdez would have crushed him....and Carter as well.

 

No match of them

 

He isn't being written off, he is being judged as a man who has held the world title against the middleweight contender Rubin Carter.By the way Alvarez is 26 years old and has had 50 fights, Carter had 40 bouts.
By the age of 25 Carter had beaten Holly Mims, Gomeo Brennan,Jimmy Ellis,Florentino Fernandez,and Emille Griffith.