Derev is no joke though. His only losses are razor close to the very best, the Charlo loss was not as close but extremely competitive.
I'm on the fence about GGG fighting Canelo now because i would hate for things to go wrong for him after winning the first 2 then getting robbed, but if anybody out there has a chance to beat Canelo its GGG. He's the one who knows how to do it. That's outside of the judges of coarse.
Lets be real. He get a draw from 1 of the judges in the Floyd fight. It was GGG KO for a draw on the scorecards or a obviously robbery. This is 100% spot on: ”Here’s the problem for somebody scoring it for Canelo,” Malignaggi said. ”You’re looking for any kind of explosion for Canelo. If it’s in the last 20 seconds, you’re automatically giving him the round. That’s how these people are judging their fights, and that’s how the boxing judges are judging where money fighters are involved. They watch the fight looking for a reason to give the money fighter a round, then they give them the round. That’s why these judges are such animals. You’re dealing with complete animals here,” Malignaggi said.
Some fighters have that “luck” for whatever reason it maybe (corruption, money, fan base, judging, interpretations) I’m not qualified enough to know exactly all the reasons and events that transpire for some fighters who always seem to get the nod in close fights, but Alvarez certainly has had some fortune, to compile the record he has. Paulie has been in the business a long time, so his quotes could be spot on.
When you are a mainstream cash cow, the face of boxing, you will get the benefit of the doubt MUCH MORE often then smokey joe from nowhere, USA.. Canelo hasn't had to worry about getting a particular fight in, ever.
The only cherry picker here is GGG. Even his only step ups(Brook and Alvarez) were carefully selected smaller opponents.
These robberies you could predict years in advance. All the gymnastics of vacating the belt waiting a year and a half to grow into the division as well as all the financial games made it quite obvious, even more so than Canelo's other fights that Canelo possibly losing wasn't an acceptable option.
Canelo prior to his confidence surge by going the distance twice with GGG was a notorious weight bully, not the other way around.
Exactly. Also, GGGs resume is riddled with career 154 fighters. Now here's a fighter who's career has definitely been carefully orchestrated.
That argument is all smoke and mirrors. He repeatedly was weight bullied himself by smaller fighters to agree to catchweights. You can't call him a weight bully for fighting at the limit of a division. Yes he was big for 154 but that doesn't make him a weight bully since he wasn't bullying anybody into fighting at an unreasonable weight. Fighting JMWs at 155, 1-lb over the limit is not weight bullying. Weight bullying is draining a fighter or not conceding anything if there is a large weight disparity. What GGG did to Brook was weight bullying. Making him come up to the full 160 when he was a much smaller man. Canelo meeting Khan at 155 wasn't weight bullying because he agreed to come in at a lower weight so Khan would be more comfortable.
Same with Cotto who demanded 155 for Canelo. Mayweather demanded 152. Golovkin wanted to weight BULLY Ward by making him drain to 164.
Yet, if Alvarez dared to call out a smaller opponent, those simpletons will be all over him with hate. Hell he's fighting bigger opponents and still gets hated on. Golovkin's team knew that the way to create buzz is to target clueless people on social media. No one is going to ask "Who did he knock out there?" on social media.
He went the distance twice and beat him too. What happened to his Mike Tyson+George Forman power?. Or did that power only unleash against blown up Welters?, against Jr. Middleweights it's nowhere to be found?.