Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
Me too, Walrus. GGG already beat Canelo and he is not helping the sport if he goes ahead and fights Canelo. Leave Canelo's reputation in shatters and go on and fight Saunders instead. It's easy for me to say, but sometimes making a stand is more important than taking the money. You fight a cheat and just maybe the cheat holds the aces on you like Margarito against Cotto. Cotto was obviously the much better boxer, but a cheat stacks the deck in his favor. Could just be pre-fight hype but it would be great to see GGG pull out.


Precisely. Unfortunately, past histories cannot be ignored or swept under the rug. Let's go back to when Canelo was avoiding GGG with the supposed "marinating" BS, or when supposedly he was trying to drag GGG down to 154 because he (Canelo) wasn't (cough)... big enough. Then somehow he mysteriously shows up and fights Chavez Jr., another weight-manipulating cheat, at 170. Only when he tests those waters does he agree with what the rest of the civilized world already knew a long time ago, that he can very well fight GGG at 160. Some fans like to pretend this type of shit doesn't happen, especially if their favorite fighter is involved..... but it does. So in MY opinion, if you are a habitual weight-manipulating cheat, who as Miles said..... "stacks the deck in his favor".... then any other type of cheating cannot be beyond your reach. These type of fighters will seek every single advantage over the sun to make sure the outcome is predetermined. Corrupt judges (CJ Ross, anyone?), weight advantages, plaster in the gloves, even PED's if they can get away with it, or use some BS excuse like consuming tainted meat. It's tendencies, and they should not be ignored.