Re: If canelo chickens out......
I'm not trying to tear canelo down. I think hes steadily improved in the ring, but the more i look at who he faced and what they were when he faced them, the more questions i have how much is flash and how much is cash.
I never really ranked gomez or baldomir. They were beneficiaries of opponents not showing up to do what they were supposed to. (i mean if Judah cut up baldomir like he was supposed to and went on to fight floyd, i doubt baldo would have ever left the shadows and Gomez is a tough little guy but was never elite to me... i suppose maybe Josesito lopez gets put in this group too). He has the loss to floyd and some will argue he lost to lara and edged trout. Angulo, Kirkland were punching bags at the point where he fought them. Cotto and mosely were pretty good wins. Pretty much everyone had khan as a lamb being led to slaughter because of the weight. He still has a good record, im just trying to separate the earned from the engineered.
They want your @$$ beat because upsets make news. News brings about excitement, excitement brings about ratings. The objective is to bring you up to the tower and tear your @$$ down. And if you don't believe that, you're crazy.
Roy Jones, Jr. "What I've Learned," Esquire 2003
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