Canelo hasn't even started declining yet and he's been up against almost any style and body type you can imagine. Often you hear fighter's say "I wish I had the body I had back then with the experience I have now" Well Canelo has both. Baldomir Mosley Trout Mayweather Lara Angulo Kirkland Cotto Chavez jr Khan GGG Jacobs Kovalev Yeah alot of them were old but he would have certainly absorbed some of their craftyness and knowledge beating them You could say Pacquiao in 2009/2010 had a tremendous amount of experience. Maybe Oscar in 2002/3(but even he hadn't been up against such a versatile range of guys) Thoughts?
I think he'll come up a little short of Pac and ODLH in terms of what he attempted in his career but he's doing more of what they did than anyone else today.
canelo has one of the best records out there but baldomir, mosley and angulo were fossils when he beat them, i doubt he learnt anything from these fights sice they offered zero resistance. Kovalev and chavez jr were badly faded, even though kovalev managed to frutrate him just by using the jab and holding the distance, so maybe he learned how to deal more effectively with bigger men in that fight. the most rewarding fights were trout, golovkin, lara and mayweather
Sure. I'm not claiming he's a top ATG, I'm talking about the amount of experience he has collected before even entering physical decline. It's mind blowing.
Canelo will go down as an all-time great. You can be a fan of his, or root against him, or think he won this fight, or believe he lost that fight ... but he'll go down as an all-timer. He already is.
Yeah I mentioned him. Pacquiao fought an assortment of greats through several weight classes before he started declining.