Jermell followed in the footsteps of Kovalev, Smith, Yildrim etc

I've already made it clear, not all Canelo's fights are fixed. He's a skilled fighter after all. But multiple opponents post GGG 2 have extreme question marks many are in denial about.

 

The alternative is all these opponents are scared of Canelo's "power" and counterpunches that they fail to throw many if any heavy shots with intent throughout the fight (despite many being much bigger (height, reach and frame) and stronger - Kovalev, Callum Smith eg), . Or when they rarely do, they don't follow it up with anything. But I've discussed this before, and this alternative is pretty silly and unlikely

 

This has been going forever. However, Canelo’s fight are extremely suspect and go quite beyond that

 

Kov was literally pitty pattying a guy coming up two weight classes who had knocked out absolutely nobody at 154 or 160 (with exception of tiny glass chinned Khan). He did this all night against Canelo with the jab, rarely putting snap on any of his jabs/extending his arm fully. I think he also threw one right hand, if that, which looked pulled to begin with.

This was 2 months after he wrecked a heavy hitting cruiserweight in Yarde (FAR bigger puncher than Canelo), dominating him around the ring with a stiff jab before knocking him out with it. 2 months later he's scared to throw a heavy jab against small light puncher Canelo.

Either Kovalev wasn't trying and allowed himself to be knocked out...or he was injured in both arms...or he was so concussed from the Yarde fight that he wasn't able to extend his arms and throw hard punches with intent through 11 rounds against Canelo. In my opinion, if he was that concussed he wouldn't have been deemed fit for fighting..I fail to believe a fighter that concussed can walk to the ring looking fine but simply be unable to extend his arms throughout the entire fight.

The only evidence we have is the fight itself..if we are going off that Kovalev wasn't trying at all. Whether Canelo was in it, who knows, but I'd suspect so...you can tell in sparring if someone is going easy on you, Canelo's a smart guy

 

He stood in front of Canelo for 3 rounds, right in front of him, showed ZERO resistance, chucking throwaway meaningless light jabs when he was taking breaks from being a punchbag.

The guy didn't even try. Threw zero with intent. Yildrim was swinging for the fences against Eubank AS he was getting freaking knocked out. Against Canelo, he stood in front of him with his arms to his head, allowing Canelo to tee off at his mid-section (which, he actually looked like he could take them) and did absolutely jack-****.

 

Oh absolutely, many would happy to be offered $10 million to take a few punches from Canelo and get "knocked out".