Comments Thread For: WBC: Canelo-Golovkin Deadline Extended To Dec. 11

[Boxing lives]

Not defending that other dude but......

"Completely dominated and beat up by Canelo" is not even close to being an accurate assesment of that fight..... Canelo DID NOT COMPLETELY dominated nor Cotto was BEAT UP....

Canelo won a close COMPETITIVE fight, GOOD PERFORMANCE.... Cotto has nothing to be asshamed of.....

#FACT

Canelo clearly won though. 117-111 or 116-112 was right. Competitive yes but Canelo made Cotto look outright foolish in there at times. Not many people saw that coming for some reason. Slipping punches and landing flush hard counters. For Cotto & Roach to say they won after was in poor taste. They know they lost. Cotto landed so many of his punches backpedaling with no leverage behind his shots. Canelo was landing hard with every power shot that connected. Good effort yes but they lost it hands down.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

Yes, and Cottos complaint was GGG shouldn't of been a mandatory

Wrong. The WBC was referring to the step aside fee to the Mandatory challenger, so the champion could fight some one else. Cotto was not a Champion, nor did the WBC do him any favor, because it was Martinez who requested and negotiated the step aside fee. WBC didn't bend any rules for Cotto.

Yes, the same type of agreement that led to GGG getting a shot at Rubio.

Cotto complained that WBC screwed up when they let GGG get the mandatory from Rubio.

Here is the quote.

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"The WBC, for two years, participated the process for the WBC to make Cotto-Canelo in many ways - including helping step-aside agreement reached with Marco Antonio Rubio so Cotto could fight Martinez. So that same rule that applied and helped him become champion, is being questioned by himself."

"He is the only who decided not to abide by the WBC's rules, regulations and conditions. He is the one who decided to abandon the title. We did not take any action. We gave him time, flexibility. We extended the deadline four times. I communicated many, many times with him, with his promoter, with Canelo on this subject. It is all on record. I just feel very, very sad because losing a champion is very uncommo

[Progrssive_Jedi]

honestly who didnt see this coming? Next Canelo will ask for a voluntary title defense and it will be accepted. Im not expecting a Canelo-GGG fight till late 2016 or early 2017.

I read both sides asked for more time.

Team GGG should be happy with the extension.

If WBC took action, GB could just blame them for not having enough time.

162?? wtf jedi???

You know I meant 152.

WBC Thanksgiving excuse for Canelo-GGG deadline delay is laughable (every1 knows holiday date!) but it's good they're trying to get it done.

— Dan Rafael (@danrafaelespn)

Dan is mad, he swore up and down this fight wouldn't happen.

I don't think Dan wants Canelo getting "good boy" style beating.

[mathed]

I have a feeling that Canelo will somehow bypass GGG.

[NachoMan]

canelo will run and wbc will bend the rules and make another belt for ggg

...and would you have had the same problem with that if Cotto had won?

[NachoMan]

Canelo clearly won though. 117-111 or 116-112 was right. Competitive yes but Canelo made Cotto look outright foolish in there at times. Not many people saw that coming for some reason. Slipping punches and landing flush hard counters. For Cotto & Roach to say they won after was in poor taste. They know they lost. Cotto landed so many of his punches backpedaling with no leverage behind his shots. Canelo was landing hard with every power shot that connected. Good effort yes but they lost it hands down.

I thought 177-111 was a very fair score, but I didn't think that 118-110 or even the 119-109 score was ridiculous. Cotto didn't embarrass himself in any way, but Canelo was better in almost every round.

[NachoMan]

I don't like Cotto neither Canelo, but without a fan look, I saw It 114-114 live, after replay without audio 115-112 Canelo, and third time using the Mexican audio, I saw it 114-114, it's very important that all the Mexican broadcast live saw Cotto win, after the fights, I see multiple Mexican analyst saying Canelo lost the fight, was very very close to a non followers, to each followers its a Canelo win or Cotto Win, I saw a draw, but its curious that Mexican broadcast saw Canelo lost it and other analyst.

I'd seriously like to know which Mexican broadcasts you are talking about. I know many island PR's who thought this fight wasn't even close. They all say Canelo clearly won this fight. The only person I know who thought Cotto won was my little brother, but he hates Canelo and can't score fights for **** anyway. Canelo won that fight no worse than 117-111. Watch it again. Not a hard fight to score.

[Mr. Philadel]

We Be Crooks aka We Back Canelo won't **** on Nelo in favor of Lil G....regardless of ALL the political correct tough talk they were talking during the Cotto-Nelo build up....if dudes think the WBC is gonna strip Nelo, do me a favor....kill yourself ....Nelo get bigger purses and draw bigger crowds....the kid got youth on his side....Lil G gotta play with whatever cards Nelo deal....the kid is running things right now and if anybody wanna get a big pay day, they have to bow down to the kid.....it is what it is!!

[QballLobo]

I posted right after the Cotto win that GGG deserves his shot and I want to see the fight. I think the make a deal for next September. I don't know if GGG is willing to fight on an undercard, he could headline his own show and bring in more $$$ but I want the fight to happen. Canelo's comments in the ring said he is not scared of this guy.
The fight will happen but only on Canelo's terms and at a weight he wants. WBC want to keep that strap on Ginger for the next decade so they will get paid and as much as GGG wants the belt he is not getting any young. They paday of a Canelo fight is just as big for him so he doesn't want to fight for a vacant title. GGG accepts his position in the game and the fight happens or they try and pull rank and get left out of a big moeny fight again.

[MDPopescu]

Trainer Abel Sanchez thinks WBC middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez’s interest in fighting Gennady GGG Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) at a catch-weight of 155lbs is a very disrespectful to the sport of boxing. Sanchez also thinks it is disrespectful to all the great warriors that have fought in the past in the normal weight classes without catch-weight handicaps to try to get an unfair edge against their opponents.

Sanchez feels that Canelo and Miguel Cotto is a couple of divas who have tried to put themselves ahead of the sport of boxing by gaming the system by using catch-weight handicaps to gain an edge over their opponents.

Canelo had catch-weight for his fight for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title five years ago in 2011 against welterweight Matthew Hatton.

"Gennady owns the 160lb title with the WBA, IBF and IBO," Sanchez said to the knockout News. "Canelo just fought for the 160lb title, middleweight title. He didn’t fight for the 155lb title. Canelo has to make up his mind about what he wants to do. If he doesn’t want to fight Gennady at 160lbs, which is the maximum weight [for the middleweight division]. If he wants to make a fight, he can fight at 155lbs if he wants, but the maximum weight for the fight is 160lbs. He has to negotiate with Tom Loeffler and the Hermann brothers. We’ll see what’s going to happen. If not with Canelo and we get the [WBC] belt, then great. If we get Canelo in May and we have to fight at 158 for the title, it doesn’t matter," Sanchez said.

The fact that Sanchez is already talking of giving into Canelo by mentioning 158 lbs as a catch-weight handicap for him tells me that they’re ready to cave into the catch-weight idea for Golovkin’s title fight against the 25-year-old Canelo.