When Have We Seen Canelo Fight A Prime Power Puncher?

Closest we saw was GGG 1 which Canelo lost.

This older version of Canelo, without the elite speed and head movement he once had, will get hit by Benavidez but I'm not sure it will matter with pharmaceutical levels of Clenbuterol in his system and judges looking for any reason to give him rounds.

 

Kirkland.

 

GGG was past it in the first fight but he was still a serious puncher. Benavidez poses a challenge Canelo has never had before, a prime pressure fighter. Will be a good test of his chin.

 

Kirkland was a pretty big puncher 30 stoppages out of 34 wins although he had a pretty long lay off when he fought Canelo.

Kermit Cintron.

Golovkin/Jacobs were in their prime and both big punchers.

Callum Smith can hit.

 

Callum Smith and Kovalev didn’t even try to win against Clenelo.

Old Golovkin still hit hard when he fought him

 

Awful post. Canelo will not fight Benavidez like GGG1. It will be like GGG2 and GGG3. Canelo will get inside to his range...which is NOT Benavidez range...and he will do his usual stalking hook stuff.

Benavidez likes to be the only one moving forward and the only one throwing power punches. That works just fine versus Plant and Andrade but Canelo has more wrinkles.

Canelo decision all day unless he gets robbed in ironic passing of torch fight

 

Disagree w entire post.

GGG was not past prime in first 2 fights. He came to America at 28 and was fresh since he had 0 close fights and had taken no damage.

GGG was also twice the boxer Benavidez is. This fight will be GGG2 not GGG1.

Why so many people keep referencing GGG1 when Canelo has done NOTHING but come forward in past 5 years...I have no idea. Canelo will come forward and Benavidez will be jabbing a lot from the outside while Canelo tries getting inside.

By the way, when Canelo gets inside all of Benavidez work is smothered outside of uppercuts. Benavidez has awful habit of squaring up to people with his jaw hanging out looking like he's trying to tie a clothing line to it and dry laundry. Canelo will exploit this badly.

 

Canelo schoolz him. And i wouldnt care who won.

 

He's fought a few power punchers in his time.

Kovalev, Smith, Golovkin, Jacobs, Kirkland, Cotto, Angulo, Cintron, Charlo, Fielding, Smith.

 

I think Canelo wins the fight but not the war.

Canelo does best when guys come at him. And he can bang it out in those situations very well. And he got the chin, head movement, and experience at the biggest stage.

But I think it will be a war and Canelo might leave a piece of himself behind in the ring.

 

None of those guys count because they weren't ripping off their shirts and foaming at the mouth with "Peak Prime Power."

 

Good take Pook.

 

Enter David Benavidez, the elite puncher who couldn't even crack Plant lol.

Canelo's chin is very well tested and proven to be asteroid tier. GGG tested it for 36 rounds. Kovalev, punch drunk or not, has heavy hands and still cracked harder than a typical light heavyweight by the time of the Canelo fight. Then there is Bivol who bashed Canelo's head in round 5 landing a volume of punches. Nearly all of them were clean hits at that. If taking all that on the chin and not dropping doesn't count as an elite chin, what does exactly? Taking that same combo from Beterbiev?

While we're on the subject, what exactly proves Benavidez is at the elite level with punching power? I think people are overrating Benavidez's power. He's strong certainly and above average, but elite? Nah. You need a resume to prove that and so far he lacks it.