Very good, thought-out post....... up to here.



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Like Ray, Canelo is a very good fighter indeed. Unlike Ray, Canelo is young enough that he will be seen as the cash cow of the future. Does GGG believe that he has to conclusively KO Alvarez to have any chance of winning? What would have happened had Leonard granted an ageing Hagler a rematch a year later?

Does Canelo leave a permanent stain on GGGs legacy, does Golovkin get his revenge for the patently ridiculous Adalaide Byrd scorecard? Will the end of the fight be controversial again, do we get a third instalment?

All will be clear by tomorrow, but there are so many parallels with Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and so many cards once again stacked against GGG ....... that I wonder?


Putting SRL and Canelo in the same sentence paragraph universe is beyond sacrilege. SRL is an ATG with reasonable shots at claiming TBE. Canelo is a manufactured phenomenon since the very beginning, totally different from the fighters of the past, or even the kind that you're alluding to, who have had to work their way up. Canelo was handed everything on a silver spoon. Also, Canelo isn't just the cash cow of the future. Canelo's been the cash cow of the present and the recent past. Where we do agree is on GGG having to conclusively KO Canelo to have any chance of winning. Adelaide isn't there..... but Dave Moretti past scorecards always seem to favor Canelo just a little bit. So the deck is again stacked.