Is Canelo the Greatest Super Middleweight of all time?

No, that's steam coming from your vag getting hot and wet seeing i'm here for you to try and beg for attention from lapdog...

 

Relax Lance, i dont want you to stroke out. Its only 9 pages!

 

"Pay attention to me!!!"
Get some humility FFS. Are you proud the way you post like an antagonizing spoiled 9yo??

 

9 pages, almost 10. The heck.

 

Joe beat him like a DRUM

 

You’ve obviously misread the thread title.

 

That wasn't at Super Middleweight, when RJJ was in his Prime. And RJJ still dropped Joe and had him hurt in Round 1. Also RJJ who had a suspect chin at that point in his career was competitive in that fight and was never in danger of being stopped.

 

He accomplished more than anyone in SMW history simply by becoming Undisputed, and in the manner in which he did it. Wide decision wins over Callum Smith and GGG (favorable GGG judging notwithstanding). No one has ever beaten either guy besides Canelo and Canelo beat each of them in dominant one-sided fashion. Brutal KOs vs Fielding, Saunders and Plant. Saunders and Plant were both undefeated Champions both were brutally stopped by Canelo.

 

It's very hard to make a case for.

 

It's actually a very easy case to make. He's the most accomplished SMW ever. No one's ever been Undisputed. Simple. Most Accomplished = Greatest. And, on top of that, it's not like any of his SMW Title fights have been even remotely close or controversial. Every fighter he's fought at SMW was a World Title Holder at the time he fought him, most of them undefeated (in GGG's case undefeated outside of the time he beat him). Every fight he's had at SMW was either a wide, dominant one-sided schooling or a brutal stoppage.

You can't do better than being Undisputed and having every fight he's ever had at SMW be one-sided and/or brutal stoppages.

 

We’ve debated this before.

It always stirs up a great debate.

Canelo is a great fighter.

Yes, he’s undisputed. And that’s great. But does that make him the SMW GOAT?

The stats are impressive, but he’s not beaten any great fighters or done anything out of the ordinary.

Of course accomplishments are important. But then so is H2H ability, along with who you beat and when, as well as the manner of the victories.

Can we really claim that he’s better than prime versions of Joe, Roy, Ward and Toney, on the grounds that he’s undisputed and they weren’t?

I think there’s a lot more to look at.

It would be interesting to list their best wins, before then looking at how skilled they were.

H2H ability is very important to me.

I’ve never seen a better fighter at SMW than a 25 year old Roy Jones.

 

LOL I'm surprised that as many as 3% voted for Canelo. It's Super Joe and it isn't close.

 

Hmm? you know Kessler wasn't a chump, I think you may be right ,he could take Canelo and of course I'd take Ward over him.

 

As per my previous post, it’s not very easy.

Again, it’s not as simple as saying that he’s the GOAT because he’s undisputed.

And if you’re focusing on statistics like him being undisputed etc, then the title defences of Ottke and Joe also have to be very impressive to you.

Have his low number of fights surpassed the longevity of Ottke and Joe?

How good are his wins?

Fielding wasn’t a good win.

The Smith win was very impressive.

How good is Plant?

BJS was one of my favourite fighters, but he was only at SMW because he could no longer comfortably make MW. He was also out of form.

How much does the win over GGG boost his SMW resume, considering the fact that GGG has never officially fought at SMW before, where he only fought there as that’s the only weight where he could get another crack at Canelo?

I don’t even think that Canelo can make MW anymore. So due to him feeling aggrieved at their previous 2 fights, GGG was forced to fight him there.

Of course, it’s all subjective. But IMHO, Canelo is only in the running for the being labelled the GOAT, again behind Roy, Joe and Ward.

 

Never saw Calzaghe gas in a fight like we have seen with Canelo numerous times. I think early on it would be competitive with Calzaghe outworking him and outboxing him down the stretch.