What IF Kovalev had said, “I want Canelo, I dare him to fight me.” And Canelo didn’t.

[j.razor]

We all know Canelo haters and casuals would have said Canelo a puss-e for not fighting him, “a weight bully...” etc etc (even though smaller than Trout at the time too doe). That’s just the way it is!

I still don’t understand “weakest” LHW whom was rated #1.

The standards for Canelo are so high it’s merely a witch hunt to theorize a way for him to lose.

You need to stop worring bout that dumb shet & worry if dazn is going to charge 50 a month for their app

[Mrsantiago]

seems unfair to kov, seeing as hes the one who has tried to unify and face hot types.

can you say the same of the others -

beterbiev - only just unified after a massive safe streak

adonis - got poleaxed once he faced someone very good, left it too late too old

groz -cant hold onto a title nor win it back

the bivol guy - respectable but nothing above title level yet like kov.

in fact kov has exceeded all of the aboves

Sure Beterbiev is number 1 LHW now but Kov was a few months ago.

With all due respect Kovalev has not
tried to unify titles with anyone but ward because he was a smaller non puncher. He or his team snuck out the back door of not one but two purse bids with Stevenson. Kovalev is a damn good fighter especially a few years back (before Ward2) but like other good fighters who are the same complexion he gets a lot of passes.

I will say he was more professionally experienced then some of the others that you’ve named but he had been knocked out twice by non punchers and hurt by a novice in his last four fights before Canelo conveniently decided to challenge himself by facing him at the time he did.

[Real King Kong]

I would have asked wtf kovalev was doing calling out a mw. We don’t have to hypothesize here...we know the reasons canelo was willing to face kovalev and the fight proved it. Nobody came away from that saying “wow, canelo just beat a prime kovalev who really looked great in there”.

[MDPopescu]

Yeah, those White Supremacists are so fast to crown a ****** like Beterbiev or a Dark skinned AA like Terrance Crawford over THE WHITEST ****ING BOXER ALIVE Canelo Alvarez.

... but he ain't white, doe... he ginger...

[Murcielago]

Canelo goes up 2 weight classes and knockouts out a 36 year old current champion and gets hate, Davis goes up one weight class, comes in heavy, it takes him 12 rounds to finish a one legged, 38 year old fighter who hasn't held a real belt in 8 years and there's tons of threads excusing him or even praising him.

[Thuglife Nelo]

I would have asked wtf kovalev was doing calling out a mw. We don’t have to hypothesize here...we know the reasons canelo was willing to face kovalev and the fight proved it. Nobody came away from that saying “wow, canelo just beat a prime kovalev who really looked great in there”.

Canelo fought a tall lanky and big Super Middleweight in Fielding. Surely Kovalev thinks nothing of Fielding, whom is taller than Kovalev, so if Canelo fought at 168, the Krusher could’ve said “if Canelo really wants it, I’ll give him a catchweight.”

[Thuglife Nelo]

Canelo goes up 2 weight classes and knockouts out a 36 year old current champion and gets hate, Davis goes up one weight class, comes in heavy, it takes him 12 rounds to finish a one legged, 38 year old fighter who hasn't held a real belt in 8 years and there's tons of threads excusing him or even praising him.

The reality is that if Canelo vs Kovalev never happened, we wouldn’t know the state of the current LHW’s. It’s possible no unifications from Kovalev would happen. However, if it did, there’d still be fans rooting for Kovalev as the underdog vs Bivol or Beterbiev, others no.

Therefore, the fact that there’d be talk about those unification fights, and yet Krusher is still fighting today, proves the hate towards Canelo in not getting credit since he’s significantly smaller than all of them. It looked like Mikey vs Spence in ratio. Spence wasn’t even fully big because he had to do his 10lb morning rule.

It all evens out. Fans just put high standards acting like they know about weights.

[kidbazooka]

TS nailed it.

The standards for Canelo are so highly it’s crazy but that just has more to do with his haters never being satisfied regardless how many times he whoops they’re favorite fighters

[j.razor]

Canelo goes up 2 weight classes and knockouts out a 36 year old current champion and gets hate, Davis goes up one weight class, comes in heavy, it takes him 12 rounds to finish a one legged, 38 year old fighter who hasn't held a real belt in 8 years and there's tons of threads excusing him or even praising him.

Bullshet, they BOTH get hate.

[Real King Kong]

Canelo fought a tall lanky and big Super Middleweight in Fielding. Surely Kovalev thinks nothing of Fielding, whom is taller than Kovalev, so if Canelo fought at 168, the Krusher could’ve said “if Canelo really wants it, I’ll give him a catchweight.”

What does it matter now? That’s not what happened and the fight already took place...and kovalev looked like ****, as predicted.