Quote Originally Posted by Ron Swanson View Post
They need to implement a limit on how many UK soft seats a top fighter can take. So many deserving fighters skipped while Canelo filled his pockets on no hopers.

I’m not judging Canelo’s legacy in total, he’s got a fantastic CV. Just, imagine if instead of Rocky Fielding he had fought Jermall Charlo, instead of John Ryder he had fought Artur Beterbiev. And so on, could have been a historic CV instead of so many cash grabs.
Can’t argue too much with your stance on this. Except to say that if you mug Americans weren’t prepared to pay to watch these mismatches, and stump up the big money, they wouldn’t have happened.
You can say “yeah but it’s Mexican money, yadda yadda bullshit, but apart from last night’s fight , they were all in the states, many in Vegas.
He fought Fielding instead of Charlo because Fielding had something he wanted (a title at another weight) and he thought Ryder instead of Beterbiev because there was clearly less risk.
If you were a Boxer , you would probably be handled and manoeuvred the same way.