I am one of the people who should be most in favor of Canelo, but seeing all the events, let's put in context that Canelo has a very strong injury in his hand, after the fight he said that he wants his hand surgery quickly oprque the pain is unbearable, and no matter how good he is, a boxer with a bad hand is not a good thing, so Bivol is not just any boxer, the Russian has a lot of strength, a lot of strength and his technique is not just any, he has very good strategies and that's it He beat him, so I think that when Canelo is done he should postpone it, because fighting with a hand injury is very hard.
Canelo is beaten fair and square by Bivol. And Bivol's camp probably thinks that Bivol is far superior to Canelo so they don't give much importance to the possible Canelo-Bivol rematch, instead, they are giving priority to having a match that unifies the light heavyweight belt.
If Canelo's hand is injured then it is obvious that he needs to fully recover from that injury. Having a relapse of injury during a fight is very devastating for a boxer.
Well, to tell the truth, I have a very vague position when it comes to exhibition fights that have to do with Mayweather, because he is a very controversial boxer, and he does not stop doing things so that everything goes his way, to My nadi gets me out of my head that there had to be a lot of money to have won the fight with Pacquiao, so those things, in particular, I will always have mistrust when it comes to him, because before being a boxer, I see him as a businessman, too He's a good boxer, but it's like we say in South America, he's very "mañoso" to get things, so that makes the sense of boxing decline, at least that's what I think.
People just failed to notice how great as technical fighter Mayweather is. I believe he has the highest IQ in the boxing ring in his era, even in the history of boxing. He might cherry-pick sometimes (it is part of boxing), but Mayweather Jr had beaten almost all top-ranked boxers of his time. People think that Mayweather's fight is boring because Mayweather is too technical for the normal audience to understand. He is a businessman, yes, but Mayweather is a capable boxer I also considered him as one of the BEST boxers in the history of boxing and the GOAT when it comes to
technical boxing style. Take note, I am not a Mayweather fan.
If I don't doubt it, I know that Mayweather is a fighter who uses his intelligence a lot in boxing, and that's not bad, in fact a boxing fight is won by the most intelligent fighter, for me in boxing he must be at 70% intelligence and the other 30% strength and ability, Mayweateher is one of the best in the world, a master in taking everything to the technical level, but what people expect is not the technical, it is the spectacle that good blows are given, comibantions, this is similar as it was in the past Olympics where the Japanese who came out in a wheelchair was the one who won, when we all saw that he did everything wrong, then the technical part is sometimes not so good.
Boxing before was fight to the death or shall we say the last man standing. You quit or you die. During the era of Duran, Leonard and Hearns they fought for 15 rounds. Today, it is only 12 rounds. Before, the referees count up to 10, but today, counting ends at 8. There were improvements in boxing to protect their health and lives.
Anyhow, I do not agree reducing the 12 rounds. Non-title boxing matches can be less than 12 rounds, they are not forced. How about replacing boxing gloves? I like lighter gloves and UFC gloves. But boxing is dependent on fists. Extra light and UFC gloves can hurt boxers fists specially when they are in a 36 minute match-ups.
I see your point and yes, you are absolutely right, I am also one of those who thinks that boxers should fight until they have no more strength left and can put on a super show, I know that somehow with those new rules if they have lowered the level a little, it is not the same that they reach 15 rounds than they reach 12 rounds, then what you say about the figure should be up to 10 and not up to 8, this suggests that people lower the level mentally , because you will see these softer rules, ethnonce in part if it gives a little bit of comfort to the boxers, but it really takes away like that "flavor", I really agree with your thought.
I think there are fight that is being sanction for 10 rounds, specially young prospects like 10 fights or less. But as far as the gloves goes, I remember Manny loving the Cleto gloves or it is Reyes gloves, both weight but the difference is that one is a puncher gloves and then the others to protect the hands or something like that.
So I guess the boxing organizations really done everything to protect the fighters in a brutal knockout, but inevitable that they really punch so hard that it can damage their opponent for good.
Well, certainly the gloves thing is something additional, for us it is more exciting that they have light gloves, because the speed of the blows is much greater, and if we could talk about great things that would make boxing bigger and with more options to have emotions in the fans, if they change the gloves to be lighter I think it would attract more people, but the bad thing is that blows like that, it's like you say, would cause permanent damage to the person, however I know what that is, because in part when it comes to boxing those gloves are somewhat softer that they don't hurt, in Hapkido the gloves are softer, and I know that sometimes they do do some damage.
