Comments Thread For: De La Hoya May Not Owe Fans Apology, But Canelo Deserves One

[HeroBando]

Such a bunch of whiners AND TOTAL HYPOCRITES all these people saying "boycott, boycott" and calling Canelo a coward. May I please remind you, you bunch of biased GGG or anti-Canelo fans that:

1) YES, Canelo has been avoiding GGG BUT ONLY AT 160 pounds or above.

2) GGG himself has been avoiding Canelo at 154-155 and has NEVER EVER proposed a catch-weight of say 157 against a guy who has NEVER EVER fought above 155. Yet he and his loud-mouth trainer keep saying that GGG will fight ANYONE 154-168. Yeah, right, liars!

So they are both "cowards" under different circumstances.

Hey, bunch of hypocrites whining about boycotting Canelo until he fights GGG at the latter's convenient weight (160) why didn't you EVER ask to boycott your bully cowardly fighter when he bullied a blown-up welter weight who had to go up 13 pounds to face him? HYPOCRISY at its best, that's what you guys very accurately portray.

BTW I am equally a fan of both GGG and Canelo because they are aggressive fighters, and always give the fans good performances, so I will watch them even if they fight against opponents that really don't stand much of a chance vs. either of them, because I love boxing, period. I don't fixate myself foolishly into worshiping a particular fighter, even if he is a hypocrite who pretends to be willing to fight any one but the reality is: yes, anyone but with some restrictions (which in reality means being a liar, a hypocrite and a coward). True boxing fans never do that, EVER. We are willing to watch just about any professional fight because we love boxing, as opposed to loving to watch only CERTAIN fighters, and only when the fight conditions are advantageous for them, so they have way bigger chances of winning.

They proposed Cw a bunch, you're just clueless and like to hear yourself talk. They didn't propose a Cw for the unification/mando cause that'd be a joke@. Why are you advocating that anyway?

[bojangles1987]

"He was a fearless beast who willingly fought the best boxer of this generation, southpaw movers who could make him look bad, murderous punchers who could’ve knocked him cold".

Who are these murderous punchers? Kirkland?

Wondering the same thing. Also, trying to talk up fighting Floyd Mayweather as fearless is ridiculous. The guy's been retired for a year and he still has every boxer from 135-168 talking about fighting him. Everyone wants to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.

He gets the proper credit for Trout and Lara, but they don't mean he gets a pass for avoiding Golovkin.

[turnedup]

Real talk. No boycott talk when GGG fought non ranked by anyone on house arrest Wade. Or just a week ago when he dragged a WW up two full weight classes in such a blatant mismatch that the WBA refused to sanction it. Smith is at least world champ and top ranked by everyone in Canelo's weight class something NEITHER Wade or Brook were. Phony whiny GGG fanboys had no problem supporting those fights but since GGG can't dictate terms on Canelo we should boycott his fight? GTFO

You were saying...

[batista84]

Such a bunch of whiners AND TOTAL HYPOCRITES all these people saying "boycott, boycott" and calling Canelo a coward. May I please remind you, you bunch of biased GGG or anti-Canelo fans that:

1) YES, Canelo has been avoiding GGG BUT ONLY AT 160 pounds or above.

2) GGG himself has been avoiding Canelo at 154-155 and has NEVER EVER proposed a catch-weight of say 157 against a guy who has NEVER EVER fought above 155. Yet he and his loud-mouth trainer keep saying that GGG will fight ANYONE 154-168. Yeah, right, liars!

So they are both "cowards" under different circumstances.

Hey, bunch of hypocrites whining about boycotting Canelo until he fights GGG at the latter's convenient weight (160) why didn't you EVER ask to boycott your bully cowardly fighter when he bullied a blown-up welter weight who had to go up 13 pounds to face him? HYPOCRISY at its best, that's what you guys very accurately portray.

BTW I am equally a fan of both GGG and Canelo because they are aggressive fighters, and always give the fans good performances, so I will watch them even if they fight against opponents that really don't stand much of a chance vs. either of them, because I love boxing, period. I don't fixate myself foolishly into worshiping a particular fighter, even if he is a hypocrite who pretends to be willing to fight any one but the reality is: yes, anyone but with some restrictions (which in reality means being a liar, a hypocrite and a coward). True boxing fans never do that, EVER. We are willing to watch just about any professional fight because we love boxing, as opposed to loving to watch only CERTAIN fighters, and only when the fight conditions are advantageous for them, so they have way bigger chances of winning.

Bro, that post was a truth statement, and I see it the same, both cowards make for each other.

[Rapid Counter]

God, I hope spoon is reading this lmao!!!

You just know he was loving the article, rubbing his hands together with glee ...... then read the Mayweather part and logged off

[bigdunny1]

You were saying...

And...? Wade wasn't on anyones top middleweight rankings who said anything about corrupt alphabet rankings that are paid for? I'm talking about 3rd party rankings RING, ESPN, BOXINGSCENE, BOXREC, ect. Nobody had that bum Wade ranked in their top 10. the fact the IBF mandated him number 1 despite this fact is corruption or any number of shady reasons. If GGG cares more about defending worthless titles that have no creditablity then actually making fights fans want to see then that's his problem. Many fighters have vacated belts rather then fight a unworthy opponent. Or moved up instead of fight unworthy opponent. Or requested an extension because you have a better fight on the table. Stop pretending GGG had no other option but to fight that bum wade.

[turnedup]

And...? Wade wasn't on anyones top middleweight rankings who said anything about corrupt alphabet rankings that are paid for? I'm talking about 3rd party rankings RING, ESPN, BOXINGSCENE, BOXREC, ect. Nobody had that bum Wade ranked in their top 10. the fact the IBF mandated him number 1 despite this fact is corruption or any number of shady reasons. If GGG cares more about defending worthless titles that have no creditablity then actually making fights fans want to see then that's his problem. Many fighters have vacated belts rather then fight a unworthy opponent. Or moved up instead of fight unworthy opponent. Or requested an extension because you have a better fight on the table. Stop pretending GGG had no other option but to fight that bum wade.

Considering they've stated non-stop since 2011 "we'd like to unify the division" i don't think you opinion on titles being worthless matters. Wade might not be shh by your estimation or mine but he was the mandatory. Fighters make fights based on their agendas..its one thing to sit there and claim about worthless fights and then defend not making a worthwhile fight Dunny. Nobody is defending shh because clearly I have not stated anything up until now just presented facts, you have presented opinion bro. Ward is at 175, and stated himself that even that is a struggle for him, right here no less. Jacobs and Saunders, need a year so maybe putting some pressure on them to finally get the 168 move you want is a more advisable expenditure of your time.

[Mr.Fantastic]

I'm not making a big deal about it because fans allow this to happen. If Canelo vs dude is a success he will continue fighting this level of opposition. If the event fails , you'll get the fight you want.

Boxing fans are full of ****. Threatening to boycott fights then they end up doing 350,000 buys or getting 1 million viewers.

Same happened with Floyd and others. All this crying from fans and yet most don't even boycott and if they do, it's a minor dent. Casuals is where the $$$$ is at.

[Jubei]

Good article even though Canelo has clearly the powe to say who he wants to face, if he really thinks he would beat GGG he would just tell Oscar to make that fight, everybody would get a huge payday and Oscar would stop getting nightmares about GGG every night and being back to ******* because of GGG.

[bigdunny1]

GGG on one side of his mouth uses the collection of vacant, interim, and paper belts to make excuses for bad fights. Then fight Brook which served no purpose for belts and matter fact one of those precious paper belts WBA refused to even sanction it. Fact is Canelo Smith on paper is a better and more competitive fight then both wade and brook mismatches. Canelo is at least fighting a world champ universally on all top 10 rankings in Canelos weight class. Something neither wade and brook were. Wade an unknown bum on house arrest. Brook a WW who he dragged up to 160. If you didn't boycott those mismatches I don't want to hear you chumps begging everyone to boycott smith fight.

It rings hollow. Like pacman fans who screamed to boycott Mayweather fights while they had no problem buying pac fights against Floyd old opponents and lesser quality fighters. AND IM NOT EVEN A FAN OF FLOYD. But either boycott both or shut the phuk up especially when GGG consistently fighting worse opponents.