Thread: When will canelo stick to his weightclass?

With a week away from the fight canelo is weighing 157.2 and floyd 152.

After this fight will we finally see canelo sticking to the trouts of this world or will he get the loser of little lucas and garcia?!

Just think of the excuses when canelo looses about weight drained and etc.

Surely catchweights need to be eliminated from boxing now or will there always be an unfair advantage?

What do you think?

Why will he make excuses when he has been successful and unbeaten this long. If he drains himself it is a calculated risk which has worked. If everyone could do it they would but it takes hard work and dedication.

Originally Posted by Master

Why will he make excuses when he has been successful and unbeaten this long. If he drains himself it is a calculated risk which has worked. If everyone could do it they would but it takes hard work and dedication.

Would you be happy to see canelo fight someone like golovkin?

Originally Posted by imp

Originally Posted by Master

Why will he make excuses when he has been successful and unbeaten this long. If he drains himself it is a calculated risk which has worked. If everyone could do it they would but it takes hard work and dedication.

Would you be happy to see canelo fight someone like golovkin?

Canelo would get smashed.

Catchweights should be eliminated even though they were happening before any of us were even born. Good luck with that.

Catch weights shouldn't even be on the radar of casual fans. Fighters can agree to face whoever they want at whatever weight can be agreed upon, the only alternative is that great fights wouldn't happen as often.

Loads of fighters routinely struggle to make the maximum weight allowed for their division anyways, it's not as if catch weights introduce anything new.

Originally Posted by Fenster

Catchweights should be eliminated even though they were happening before any of us were even born. Good luck with that.

I agree and at the very least totally eliminated for title fights.

Originally Posted by imp

Surely catchweights need to be eliminated from boxing now or will there always be an unfair advantage?

No, you will probably always need the catch weight option if the sport is to survive. Promoters often need late subs, who can come in at the last moment, that are perhaps a few pounds overweight. Also the sport has a great tradition of catchweight matches.

For instance, watching the Journeyman Middleweight fight the Welterweight prospect can be used as a main event in the small halls, and can create fascinating matches, that give value for money.

Originally Posted by Britkid

Originally Posted by imp

Surely catchweights need to be eliminated from boxing now or will there always be an unfair advantage?

No, you will probably always need the catch weight option if the sport is to survive. Promoters often need late subs, who can come in at the last moment, that are perhaps a few pounds overweight. Also the sport has a great tradition of catchweight matches.

For instance, watching the Journeyman Middleweight fight the Welterweight prospect can be used as a main event in the small halls, and can create fascinating matches, that give value for money.

Good answer.

Im just trying to see if theres any other options out there as canelo never made the matthew hatton catchweight and was overweight whats going to happen this time in the biggest fight of his life.