Quote Originally Posted by TIC View Post
will you give canelo any credit if he fights david b in his three fight contract with pbc? as for suspense, i was saying before the dmitry fight that it was a really hard fight & most of us here agreed that dmitry was the second best light heavyweight in the world at that time, that fight was nowhere near a foregone conclusion. you see it as a miscalculation, i see it as an extremely difficult challenge


IMO it was both. No doubt it became an extremely difficult challenge. But also a miscalculation, because that hasn't been Canelo's M.O. throughout his career. Most of his fights have been coldly pre-calculated, to give Canelo every possible advantage within the rules... (and at least once outside the rules). Taking on Bivol was uncharacteristic for Canelo. No doubt he was emboldened by previous successes against Rocky Fielding and Kovalev. But Bivol turned out to be much more of a live dog. Wanting to challenge Ilunga Makabu, and wanting to drain Badou Jack 20 pounds below his weight... those are more Canelo's style.

Will I give Canelo credit if he fights Benavidez in his 3-fight contract with PBC? Depends. If it does, which I doubt... it needs to happen soon. So Canelo will have no age excuse when he gets KTFO'ed.

BTW... whatever happened to Canelo's previously used excuse about not wanting to fight fellow Mexicans? I remember him pulling that one out from under his sleeve when David's name first started being mentioned.

Ginger's got a ready-made excuse for everything.