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There is nothing wrong with losing a few fights over a career. (Nearly) all of the greats had some losses ..... the mark of a great fighter - just like life in general - is how you respond from and learn from those losses.

There's no shame in losing to a top class operator like Bivol, as long as Alvarez shows he learnt something. If Nadal and Djokovic hadn't been around, Federer would probably have won about 30 Grand Slams by now, but competing with and losing to them made him a much better and rounded tennis player that he would have been without them, even with 30 Grand Slams.

Alvarez is definitely lucky he only has one loss, I think Trout beat him, I think Golovkin beat him, I cannot understand how judges gave him so many rounds against Mayweather and Bivol ..... I don't think that's his fault though.

I think Lara beat Canelo as well.

But now that you bring up the tennis analogy...

If Canelo had faced the "Nadals and Djokovics" of boxing, he'd be just another good fighter, with just another good record.

Case in point:

Another thread on here asks how great was Floyd. Love him or hate him, Floyd's resume stacks up well with any of the ATG's..... but is light-years ahead of Canelo's.

I won't list his opponents here, but anyone can look down the list of Floyd's opponents and see what I mean.

To be clear... I always rooted for Floyd to lose. But facts are facts.

In the '80s, it was Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Hagler, Benitez... facing each other. Plus there was plenty of elite competition around them as well.




But back to the OP question... is Canelo on a serious slide? Hell no. Canelo's 32 years old. In the prime of his boxing career. He got his ass handed to him by Bivol, due to a serious miscalculation on Team Canelo's part.... which will very likely never happen again.

Is there anything wrong with Canelo having lost to Bivol? No, obviously not. What would've been not wrong, but TRAGIC, would've been yet another questionable decision in Canelo's favor. Thankfully the gap in the fight was so wide, the judges had no choice but to do the right thing and award the decision to Bivol.