Who do you think won GGG/Canelo 2?

[Freedom]

[Freedom]

[Mark TKO]

GGG for me but only by the narrowest of margins.

No complaints re it going other way.

Can’t see how a third would be any different.

Two great fighters. Two great chins.

[Freedom]

Fightnews poll result: Canelo won: 29.16%, GGG won: 70.84%

[Freedom]

Media scores for GGG-Canelo II

Harold Lederman (HBO Sports): 116-112 Golovkin

Brian Campbell (CBS sports): 116-112 Golovkin

Dan Rafael (ESPN): 114-114 draw

Salvador Rodríguez (ESPN Mexico): 114-114 draw

Gareth A Davies (The Telegraph): 116-112 Golovkin

Josh Peter (USA Today): 115-113 Golovkin

Sports Illustrated: 114-114 draw

Dylan Hernandez (LA Times): 115-113 Golovkin

Lance Pugmire (La Times): 114-114 draw

Box Scene: 114-114 draw

Chris Mannix (Yahoo! Sports): 115-113 Golovkin

Kevin Iole (Yahoo! Sports): 114-114 draw

The Guardian: 116-112 Golovkin

Joe DePaolo (Washington Post): 115-113 Golovkin

Mike Coppinger (Ring Magazine): 114-114 draw

Sherdog: 116-112 Golovkin

Jai Bednall (news.com.au): 115-113 Golovkin

Brian Mazique (Forbes): 114-114 draw

Adam Abramowitz (Ring Magazine and SN Boxing): 115-113 Golovkin

Tom Craze (Bad Left Hook): 116-112 Golovkin

Fraser Coffeen (Bloody Elbow): 115-113 Golovkin

The Associated Press: 114-114 draw

Bill Simmons (HBO and The Ringer): 114-114 draw

Steven Muehlhausen (Sporting News): 116-112 Golovkin

Michael Montero (MonteroOnBoxing): 115-113 Golovkin

Matt Christie (Boxing News): 115-114 Golovkin

George Willis (New York Post): 114-114 draw

Below The Belt Podcast: 115-113 Golovkin

World Boxing News: 115-113 Golovkin

Jeff Powell (Daily Mail): 116-113 Golovkin

[TitoFan]

Fightnews poll result: Canelo won: 29.16%, GGG won: 70.84%

The 70% in the Fightnews poll matches the 70% on this thread poll.

Plus none of the sportswriters you mentioned voted for Canelo............. NONE.

No, it was not a robbery 'cause it was close. But the decision had already been mailed in. Announcing it was merely a formality.

[sanatogen]

Will BJS want any part of Canelo? Doubt it.

Canelo probably has sights set elsewhere anyway.

[armin]

Ggg all night but his name isn't john Smith si he didn't get it

[armin]

just googled round by round scorecards and first page of results it was all golo victory or draw so yeah don't see how you give that to alvarez, if he was german and his name was schweinsteigerstein or some shit like that and the fight took place in germany hbo would have been crying robbery but alas it is their cash cow

[armin]

[armin]

yeah I am going with golovkin got robbed

[TitoFan]

I was looking for something like this all last night. Thanks for sharing.


What can I say. It was closer than the first fight, which they inexplicably called a draw, so of course they gave it to Canelo.

I've looked back at some scorecards by Dave Moretti on Canelo fights and, although not as corrupt/inept as a CJ Ross or Adelaide Byrd, with Moretti scoring you practically have to kill Canelo to get him to score the other way.


Not in the robbery category maybe, but definitely the wrong decision as evidenced by the almost unanimous consensus by the boxing experts.

Bottom line: Canelo fans thought Canelo won. Boxing fans know GGG won.

[tomcy03]

Close fight for sure, these two will always be close but it only moves more in Canelos favour the older GGG gets. I had GGG by a few rounds, it simply came down to the two judges who scored the last round for Canelo essentially giving him the victory with that one round. They were never going to give GGG a fair crack, just a shame as it was a good contest overall. No robbery though.

Over the 24 rounds they've been very evenly matched.