Rosado vs Alvarez

Canelo stops him late after a pretty severe beating

 

:thumbsup Common sense at work here.

I really don't understand the reticence to accept Canelo stopping Rosado. Gabe has been stopped 4x, thrice by much lesser fighters than Canelo and once by Golovkin but three years ago - with Rosado eating lots of clean punches in those intervening three years (and dabbling with BKB on the side!!!)

Carlos Baldomir had been stopped once, early days, and not for sixteen years when Canelo managed it. (and even after moving up to campaign at middleweight, super middle, and even light heavyweight, Tata was only stopped once more in his career, and that was a corner retirement against the hard-hitting Veneno Rubio)

 

Truth...

 

Unlikely, unless Rosado is cut which is actually likely.

 

Baldomir. Kirkland. Angulo.

 

:yep

 

ok scrooge.

 

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Agree with everything except the technical advantage.

Canelo would simply make the fight at the full 160 limit, come in around 180-185 and bully Rosado who only weighs about 165-170 on fight night.

I hope we can all agree that Canelo ONLY fights at 155 b/c he CAN.

He's a solid sized MW at 26 and growing into his adult frame.

He can try to stunt his growth as much as he'd like, but eventually it will catch up him.

He's gonna have to fight full frame MWs soon, b/c continually boiling off 20lbs in a couple days is not healthy and he's gonna end up bone dry entering a fight and F around and get stopped by someone as bunk as Jarrod Fletcher.

 

You know you're moving the goal posts there, man.

If the reason Kirkland nor Angulo deserve any credit is because other people have stopped them, you have to give him props for being the first in sixteen years to stop the rugged Baldomir.

If the Baldomir stoppage is no good because he's a teeny-tiny little welterweight, you have to give Canelo some credit for knocking out a weight-cutting natural super middleweight (squeezed into a JMW frankfurter skin) in Mandingo. If because there was nothing coming back at him for Canelo to fear with Tata's feather-dusters, you have to give him credit for taking it to big punchers in Kirkland and el Perro. :deal

Any way you slice it, you're painted into a corner.