This could be comparable to Tito/Hopkins. That upset (that wasn’t really an upset) kicked off a fun era at Middleweight. There’s still a lot of great fights to be mixed and matched at 175. Bivol, Beterbiev, Smith, Zurdo, Buatsi, Vlasov, Etc. Respect to Canelo for the attempt. But there’s still Interesting fights at 168 for him. An immediate rematch with Bivol, would be the type of mistake that permanently ends his run at the Top Tier of the sport.
I’m not interested in a rematch, would prefer to see Bivol fight the Beterbiev - Smith winner. Canelo should fight GGG anyway and then stay at 168. Excellently disciplined performance from Bivol, you can tell he’s a well schooled amateur.
Can we talk for a second about how bad the undercard was? Hrgovic dropping out was a bad omen. Between the time when Zhang obliterated some guy they got off the street and the main event, I had to drink two cups of coffee just to keep my eyes open. I’m pretty much all set with Marc Castro at this point, and Montana Love can go back to doing Paul Brothers cards that I don’t buy as far as I’m concerned. I supposed the Giyasov fight wasn’t the worst, but Sergio and Danny Jacobs saying a world title is in his future is absurd.
I can accept that DAZN has to move some fights onto PPV to make its business work, but if subscribers are going to have to fork over an extra $70 a few times a year, I don’t think it’s asking too much for them to put together a decent undercard.
The humble Bivol humbled Canelo with ease. Bivol walked into the ring with all against him, rude/shrieking Canelo fans and most boxing experts predicting Canelo would win as per-usual, but Bivol in his quiet non-trash talking humble attitude proved them all wrong.
Bivol is an excellent boxer and must have a great big fight mentality that allows him to perform when it really matters.
I disagree with Dan as I think the scorecards were another judging travesty. I couldn’t give Canelo more than 3 rounds for all his loading up, hitting arms (which are not scoring shots) and being blocked or slipped by the exceptional Bivol.
I don’t need to see a rematch I”d prefer to see Bivol fight the winner of Beterbiev vs Smith however that won’t happen because of the WBC, WBO & IBF ban on Russian boxers - so it’ll have to be the rematch then 😂.
When I fist saw a pic of Canelo Bivol facing off I immediately thought “uh-oh, too big”.
Watching Canelo’s wicked shots bouncing harmlessly off of Bivol round one and two? I was pretty convinced he had very little shot of hurting Bivol, who excellent defense and reach advantage seemed pretty insurmountable.
Does anyone think less of Canelo for trying? I don’t.
This could be comparable to Tito/Hopkins. That upset (that wasn’t really an upset) kicked off a fun era at Middleweight. There’s still a lot of great fights to be mixed and matched at 175. Bivol, Beterbiev, Smith, Zurdo, Buatsi, Vlasov, Etc. Respect to Canelo for the attempt. But there’s still Interesting fights at 168 for him. An immediate rematch with Bivol, would be the type of mistake that permanently ends his run at the Top Tier of the sport.
I’m not interested in a rematch, would prefer to see Bivol fight the Beterbiev - Smith winner. Canelo should fight GGG anyway and then stay at 168. Excellently disciplined performance from Bivol, you can tell he’s a well schooled amateur.
Can we talk for a second about how bad the undercard was? Hrgovic dropping out was a bad omen. Between the time when Zhang obliterated some guy they got off the street and the main event, I had to drink two cups of coffee just to keep my eyes open. I’m pretty much all set with Marc Castro at this point, and Montana Love can go back to doing Paul Brothers cards that I don’t buy as far as I’m concerned. I supposed the Giyasov fight wasn’t the worst, but Sergio and Danny Jacobs saying a world title is in his future is absurd.
I can accept that DAZN has to move some fights onto PPV to make its business work, but if subscribers are going to have to fork over an extra $70 a few times a year, I don’t think it’s asking too much for them to put together a decent undercard.
The humble Bivol humbled Canelo with ease. Bivol walked into the ring with all against him, rude/shrieking Canelo fans and most boxing experts predicting Canelo would win as per-usual, but Bivol in his quiet non-trash talking humble attitude proved them all wrong.
Bivol is an excellent boxer and must have a great big fight mentality that allows him to perform when it really matters.
I disagree with Dan as I think the scorecards were another judging travesty. I couldn’t give Canelo more than 3 rounds for all his loading up, hitting arms (which are not scoring shots) and being blocked or slipped by the exceptional Bivol.
I don’t need to see a rematch I”d prefer to see Bivol fight the winner of Beterbiev vs Smith however that won’t happen because of the WBC, WBO & IBF ban on Russian boxers - so it’ll have to be the rematch then 😂.
When I fist saw a pic of Canelo Bivol facing off I immediately thought “uh-oh, too big”.
Watching Canelo’s wicked shots bouncing harmlessly off of Bivol round one and two? I was pretty convinced he had very little shot of hurting Bivol, who excellent defense and reach advantage seemed pretty insurmountable.
Does anyone think less of Canelo for trying? I don’t.