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Hmm, IF you truly "don't fkin care" you'd be calling out Fury as well. Methinks you jus wolfin and that's OK for marketing purposes.....but keepin it real you're not remotely competitive with Usyk. This ain't John Ruiz

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Reckon he still want Usyk 🙄

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If Canelo was "a man on a mission" at 175lbs there would be no Golovkin fight set up for September, instead there'd be a tentative plan to fight the winner of June's Beterbiev vs Smith unification. The Bivol fight wouldn't stop such a tentative plan being talked about - Canelo and Reynoso talked about similar plans when chasing the undisputed 168lb title.

I'm pretty confident that Canelo will beat Bivol and I give him a lot of credit for taking this fight as it's not what Reynoso and Canelo usually do when trying to beat champions in divisions above Canelo's current division.

Canelo & Reynoso waited until Golovkin was 36 before going anywhere near him at (full) 160lbs and at 175lbs they waited until Kovalev was 36 and spending more time in night clubs than the gym.

Although the Bivol fight is a brave move, a braver move would have been taking on Beterbiev when he's still strong at 37. The fact that the Bivol fight was taken instead and no immediate subsequent fight with Beterbiev even talked about imo suggests that Reynoso thinks Artur is still too formidable at the moment. Consequently I suspect there will be a delay in Canelo taking on Artur. The length of that delay will depend on how good/bad Beterbiev looks in his next fight or two - and as he's 38 next January, Reynoso knows that there has to be some sign of decline fairly soon.

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Bob Fitzsimmons won the actual heavyweight championship whereas Roy Jones won a WBA belt when the actual heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis, was still active.

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