Canelo didn't fight well enough to convince me that he has a chance against GGG. He was forced to just throw looping shots because of Khan's speed. He won because Khan has no chin. Punches like those aren't going to do **** to GGG. Gennady will walk Canelo down and give him the beating of a lifetime and Canelo knows it.

They'll fight eventually. Probably a few years from now. Canelo will roll over a bunch of opponents and get into his prime as GGG leaves his. He's banking on GGG losing his edge in the future so the match will be easier for him.

GGG has to humiliate Canelo. Put up billboards in his hometown about how much of a pussy he is. Full page ads in Mexican newspapers and magazines should be all about how horrible he is. Talk about how he's a disgrace to his country by running away and not being a true Mexican fighter. Give him an offensive nickname. Gotta be like Ali/Frazier type of harassment as Canelo continues to run away.

i think it will prob happen next cinco de mayo weekend


but there is no one i really care to see either fight except each other. canelo-pacman is really another pretty pathetic fight against someone way smaller but at least it would be sort of interesting. i don't know how much money he could make from that but i'm not necessarily convinced canelo should be favored in that fight even and if he loses to pacquiao the GGG fight loses some luster


can't believe one judge had it 4-1 canelo. khan never had a chance

I can see it being 3-2 Canelo after the fifth. But no way did Canelo win the first or second round. Judge must have some selective vision.

Did you guys think khan was winning the fight? I'm a huge khan fan and I say maybe it was 3-2 or 2-3 khan. I felt canelo figured khan out around 5 so even if it went 12, would have been difficult for khan. I feel the fix was in though proven by those cards. I felt this was just a money grab for Khan kinda. He knew he prolly wasn't going to win fight and a loss wasn't going to hurt him much.

Also think khan should have played it safer at end. Seemed like first 3-4 rounds he was fighting super safe and just out boxing canelo from
Outside. Feel if he's on his bike for 12, he might get a bad decision but gives himself a shot to win at least.

I'm a huge khan fan but feel his career is over. He's going to need to beat Garcia or kell brook to really put his name out there. Think he really messed up losing this fight as it prolly gets him a mayweather fight no question. Think his chin is just too weak and he's always going to be at risk of a ko no matter how big he's winning. I feel he should just work on being extremely cautious and fight from outside takin almost no risk. I'm not a boxing guru but I feel he can beat almost anyone if he just boxes safe at distance. Think he should fight Garcia also over brook as I feel he can easily beat Garcia if he just focuses on smart boxing like first 3 rounds of their first fight and puts defense and movement at a forefront.

Shots fired

$6m smile to start this video

He's had nothing but praise since day dot....best example is his heroes welcome for getting 2nd pace ffs.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/o...ome-40476.html

Oh and the fact he has been based in American since forever means he won't be as endeared to the Brit public like Calzaghe or Bruno.

I think Canelo won 4 and 5 and Khan maybe won two of the other three (but I'm a huge Canelo fan - as are the judges obviously ).

I'm sure Khan would have loved to have stayed on the outside for 12 rounds, but it's hard to keep that up when someone is punching the sh*t out of your ribs. Most telling image of the fight is Khan laying on his back with a massive welt/bruise already coming up on his left ribs.

2nd most important image from the fight was GGG jumping around in the background trying to photobomb every interview.

Good, insult Canelo until he's forced to take the fight. Only way he'll get it most likely.

GGG gotta do with Apollo Creed did to Rocky in Rocky 2.



Imagine dropping thousands of leaflets out of a small plane over Canelo's hometown of Juanacatlán or posting billboards with demeaning advertisements all around the country.

So are we changing the thread to "waiting for Canelo v GGG now?

It's shaping up to be a Manny/Floyd situation.

Kinda think this is the new formula for boxing now. Better get used to it.

I think variations of this formula are as old as boxing.


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I wonder what GGG does? If Canelo doesn't fight him, he becomes the full WBC Middleweight champ. That means he'll be the reigning WBC/WBA/WBO Middleweight champ with only Billie Joe Saunders standing between GGG and #AllTheBelts.

If he does that, he can instantly move up and run through Jack, Strum, and Degale (lulz) followed by GRam.

By then his career will be over and holy mother of god.

Naturally, none of those guys will probably fight him, so he'll get ducked until he retires, but a guy can dream.

He's a bigger and bigger draw. 4 years ago Geale nor Murray would fight him (Sergio was the original #duck).

Canelo has certainly dodged for a year or so now, but nobody else is really a big name at 154-168, particularly 154, which is likely a better spot for GGG to move to. Saunders/Jacobs/Lara/Charlo would be better opponents than most GGG faces, but they aren't particularly compelling fights, certainly not "OK, GGG has finally faced a great fighter." They're not a lot different than Geale or Murray or Macklin before GGG destroyed them.

Ward might be the exception, but between those prior promotional issues, a lack of a large draw (Ward isn't a massive name) and Ward being a very large 168 and GGG a small-medium middleweight, it makes sense why Ward-GGG didn't happen. Now Ward is moving up, so it's even less likely.

If Canelo doesn't happen, I'd love to see GGG run down DeGale. I think GGG's style is basically perfect for him, and it'd be at 168, setting up a "Ward-Kovalev winner should move down to 168 to fight Golovkin in the spring." I really think Canelo fight happens though and it would be great, GGG's style is what Canelo fights best against, except GGG is just really damn good at that style and should be a solid fav.

Parker v Takam on the 21st being shown live on Sky.

Stacked Night:

I'm surprised by the quality of Briggs' opponent there. I thought he'd be matched against a complete bum.

I think I hate both Kell Brook and Amir Khan the same amount so if they ever did end up meeting I'd be up **** creek.

i think it will be pretty pathetic if they don't end up fighting


really no excuse not to get it done, they both would get huge paydays (perhaps khan gets a bit more for canelo fight but whatever) and winner would get a massive fight afterwards. plus if it is an exciting close fight they can always do the rematch thing

Isn't it odd that it sort of seems like this fight is likely. I don't recall ever feeling like this during the Floyd v. Manny era, such as it was. I wouldn't be shocked if it happens this fall, although next Cinco seems likely.

And yeah, neither guy is hard to find and neither guy is going to try and run. That fight is over before 6 full imo.

Manny Floyd had the huge network war, basically no Haymon fighters were on HBO and basically no Top Rank fighters were on Showtime, Showtime had Floyd locked in and HBO had Manny locked in.

I think those hurdles were huge and required both fighters to push hard for the fight in order to make it happen, and that's after the higher ups got involved.

On the contrary, both Canelo and GGG are locked into HBO deals.

I still agree though, pre Khan fight I really hated the language I was seeing, it was really setting up to continue to duck GGG, but for Canelo's "I'll fight anyone, lets go" persona, it's hard to dodge for too long. Floyd was basically "FU I'll do what I want" and a villain, so it always worked fine.

Man the 21st looks awesome Rosh.