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“First of all I want to make it clear that we are not looking past Cotto. He’s an excellent fighter, he’s a puncher and Canelo is a puncher so is going to make for a great fight. But I can tell you one thing, Saul dodges no one. He’s a fighter and he wants to fight the best and Golovkin is one of the best. We are ready to fight anyone, but our fights will be at 155 pounds. Canelo is not ready to be a full-fledged middleweight so if GGG or anyone else wants to fight at 155 pounds we are more than happy to fight them.”

This is completely ridiculous. So what he is saying is that he wants to have the advantage against a light middle because he is too big for the division but will force a middle to cut down to 155? I can understand catch weight fights here and there but how can you just make a firm weight and say you won't fight anyone except for at that weight. That is the whole purpose of weight classes. The difference is 6 pounds. It's not that big of a deal. Canelo is most likely the same size as a lot of middles.

Canelo has tended to fight the best fighters for the most part but this is ridiculous. If you are too big to fight at the light middle limit then you are a middleweight. It's not that difficult to understand.