What a masterful performance

You cant say that. It's just not true. Those guys fought in the Golden era with way better competition.

 

Floyd took that kid to school. Have said this before, but I couldn't understand people talking up Canelo's chances for this fight. A lot of powerful backers desperately wanted Canelo to be a new Leonard or De la Hoya, a huge attraction with the all-time great skills to back it up, but I always thought they were going to be left disappointed, and still do.

Watching it live, I struggled to give Canelo more than a couple of rounds at best. He took a couple of the low-key rounds with his half-hearted hustling between rounds eight and twelve, when the damage had already been done. But the gulf in class between the two men was eye-watering. Mayweather absolutely waltzed it. Canelo looked clueless early on (what he was thinking standing off Mayweather and trying to counter in the early rounds, I'll never know) and as if he'd never learned how to parry or avoid a jab in his life.