**With a right gameplan Callum Smith should beat Canelo**

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by IsaL, Dec 17, 2020.


  1. JordanK2406

    JordanK2406 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Smith honestly just not that good people need to realise this. Canelo either takes him out with a body punch or an inside uppercut
     
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  2. Pimp C

    Pimp C Too Much Motion Full Member

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    Canelo will school him.
     
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  3. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas FRANKINAUSTIN

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    The worst handicap he had was eating nothing but TexMex the past few weeks; that's all you can get in San Antonio. Brits can't handle enchiladas smothered in queso, or chicken flautas in mole sauce or Chile rellenos covered in salsa. Mucho mad caliente.
     
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  4. blues87

    blues87 Member Full Member

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    Smith will get stopped within 4 rounds!
     
  5. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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    Just bringing out my told you card.

    I think we have a case here of people underrating what Kovalev had left when he fought Canelo. Sure he was on the downside, but he was still a very skilled fighter, so skilled he twice outboxed Andre Ward, "outboxed" a very skilled Andre Ward even in the rematch where Kovalev got stopped.
    Callum Smith though younger and undefeated, is nowhere near the skill level of Kovalev.
    Canelo is at the moment at the peak of his prime, he's turned all the fighters he's fought recently to timid gunshy forms of themselves and that included Gennady Golovkin who in the rematch was on the backfoot pushing an arm jab.

    As I said in a previous post on this thread my friend, defense by Canelo would be key and Smith who had never been in a ring with anything like that type of defense was lost.
     
  6. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    You said KO... I said ud 12
     
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    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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  8. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council Full Member

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    We sure found out who is special and it’s Canelo not Smith.
     
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  9. Stiff Jab

    Stiff Jab Despiser of Super-Middleweights Full Member

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    Not sure who I'm laughing at harder; the hardcore anti-Canelo crowd who bigged up Smith (literally, in some cases) hoping to see Canelo fall, or the hardcore pro-Canelo crowd who bigged Smith up (again, sometimes literally) to make Canelo's one-sided victory seem impressive rather than an inevitability of his class and Smith's lack of.

    Every last one of you needs to calm down. :lol:
     
  10. ShovelHook

    ShovelHook Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    People get too caught up in their feelings, but that shouldn't surprise you.
     
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  11. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    :deal:
     
  12. Bokaj

    Bokaj Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Canelo's best performance so far imo. He keeps improving with every fight, which is very nice to see.
     
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  13. nurological

    nurological Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ;) told you Smith had no chance
     
  14. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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    I never made a prediction one way or another, I was just questioning from the beggining what within Smith's limits could he do to beat Canelo, I just did'nt see with the type of height and reach that he had that his jab was strong enough to keep Canelo at bay.
    My example pre-fight was that even Kovalev on the way down was a better fighter than Smith.
    .......and I was right on the issue, Canelo had a much easier time with Smith than he did Kovalev.
     
  15. divac

    divac Loyal Member Full Member

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