In retrospect, wa Amir Khan an excellent amateur who didn't become an excellent professional

Overwhelming majority of poster in here also had GGG winning.
Overwhelming majority of fans had GGG winning.

 

Right but we're talking about expectations to results. The expectations about what would happen were vastly different than what ended up happening. Not only in the scoring of the match, but just the fact that it went the distance in the first place and was as competitive as it was.

The overwhelming majority of poster did not expect that, the overwhelming majority expected and predicted a GGG domination or a knockout. It ended up being far closer and Canelo doing far better than they expected, even if most still thought he won. So with people talking about what Floyd would do to Khan, they are making a similar expectation and prediction in what would happen if Khan fought Floyd in 2015. Overrating Floyd's ability to deal with Khan as they did GGG's ability to deal with Canelo.

 

Im sure there was a fair few that backed Canelo

 

The expectation was it would be a fight where Canelo had his moments but GGG would ultimately win, with many predicting a late knockout.
Worth noting plenty were predicting that if it did go to the cards Canelo would get be protected, which he was.

Not really that outlandish, expectations to results, considering GGG did win, insane judge cards aside.