If canelo chickens out......

[J_Undisputed]

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.

Lara and Trou are both clear wins for him imo, close fights, but not sure I could score them the the other way if I tried. Don't give him much more of a chance than anyone else against GGG though.

I think he could have done enough body work to take the Lara fight and I think aside from the knock down Trout was a tougher bout to score. It just seems that the split decider or vote going against the grain for Canelo (like in the mayweather fight) is always like a score

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I like Lara, but for me it's not could have but did. Nearly every truly effective punch was Canelos and this isn't the amateurs, plus output was very close if I remember. You don't score points for looking cool when you aren't punching.

Trout would have been a near even fight if it weren't for knockdown, which made it another clear win imo.