Thread: Canelo vs Liam Smith set.

Just saw this has been announced a few places. Sept 17th on HBO and Canelo will go back to 154 for it. Must admit this is the Smith brother I haven't seen, how good is he? Pretty safe to bet Canelo won't be fighting GGG now I'd think.

Apparently, This Mexican fucks around like that.

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...pot-154-a.html

Ah didn't check that out sorry, obviously this was going to happen then. Not to impressed just watching a few clips of Liam Smith, looks like a mismatch.

I like Liam Smith, and I think he's a decent fighter, but here he's being served up to the dogs and is likely to get bashed up in this fight. He's young, and I hope that if he is starting to ship too many shots, the corner pulls him out.

Oh great. Looks like Canelo wants to get all blush in the face and be a tough guy again. What a chump. Respect to Smith but it's a bit like a spoiled brat storming into a toy store and demanding a discount. Nice chunk of change and spotlight for Liam but he should put a bow on the box of that trinket. So much for being too big for jr middleweight eh red?

Figured Canelo would fight a softie instead of a challenge. I will be surprised if his bitch move with GGG doesn't have significant negative impacts on this fights numbers. Think Canelo hurt his brand/image by calling GGG out and then ducking him like a punk.

Originally Posted by mikeeod

I will be surprised if his bitch move with GGG doesn't have significant negative impacts on this fights numbers.

Seriously??

Quite the opposite for me. Canelo is an established, carefully manufactured brand. Anointed the new "greatest thing in boxing" (now there's a distinction that has dropped in value)..... Canelo can do nothing short of actually saying in plain Spanish that he has no intention of going anywhere near anyone who poses a real danger to him unless he has a serious size advantage.... and Oscar will spin it into some sort of "marination" theory.

His PPV value is bullet-proof, helped along by legions of Braille-reading fans.

I honestly don't know why anyone would want to fight Canelo unless it's just for the payday, no one is beating Canelo on the scorecards I think that's pretty obvious by now so unless your like ggg who's coming for the ko why bother fighting Canelo except for the payday.

I like Liam Smith, he's a nasty little fucker, I remember in one of his recent fights he give someone a good dig and you could actually hear him cackle afterwards, always gets a good smirk on his face when he hurts someone.

He was pretty much punch perfect in his last fight against a bum, unfortunately there is no way that I can see him beating old ginger flaps, I'll be seriously fucking cheering Smith on regardless

Originally Posted by g3org3

I honestly don't know why anyone would want to fight Canelo unless it's just for the payday, no one is beating Canelo on the scorecards I think that's pretty obvious by now so unless your like ggg who's coming for the ko why bother fighting Canelo except for the payday.

The payday is what drives all professional fighters. After Floyd and Pacquaio had won countless world titles, they were still driven by the payday. The payday even convinced Jean Pascal to fight Kovalev a second time and take another bad beating.

Canelo is very good and he's also a bully cunt and the biggest draw in boxing right now. He'll have no shortage of guys lining up to fight him for that fuck money.

I would love it for Liam to pull off an upset. It would be magic.

The Mexican community should never buy the ppv event.

Canelo is just turning out to be junk now...he's chicken! He's waiting GGG out who turns 35 next April. It's bullshit and boxing is the big loser.

Originally Posted by Master

I would love it for Liam to pull off an upset. It would be magic.

The Mexican community should never buy the ppv event.

I would love it if they accidentally signed to fight Callum

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Originally Posted by Master

I would love it for Liam to pull off an upset. It would be magic.

The Mexican community should never buy the ppv event.

I would love it if they accidentally signed to fight Callum

Oddly enough Canelo will be the size of Callum when he gets in the ring with Liam. That is grossly unfair.