Just watched Canelo - Lopez

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Vano-irons

Discussion Starter · Sep 16, 2012

Full fight is on YouTube (albeit a bit jumpy)

It was hard to gauge just how good Alvarez was, when we consider it was a Light middleweight up against a Light Welterweight. He worked the left to the body well, and the jab has improved. The right over the top, and hia combination punching was also pretty good. But his defence still looks leaky (could you get more Mexican if you tried). But of course that could be because he had zero respect for lopez's power.

In the end, the lighter man was overwhelmed and bashed up, just like everyone thought.

Where do both go from here?

Lopez obviously drops back down to at least Welter, but does Canelo get his shot at money may? Cotto - Trout winner down the line?

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Vano-irons

Discussion Starter · #3 · Sep 16, 2012

100% agree mate. I think Cotto, even at this stage, would find the holes in his defence.

But we need to see him against someone his own weight to see how good he is. Lara, Molina, or even K9 and Kirkland. We didn't really learn anything about him last night, other than he can walk down a small welter

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Vano-irons

Discussion Starter · #6 · Sep 16, 2012

Dinamita said:
I still think we'll see Canelo vs Ortiz.

Would genuinely be a horrible move. While Ortiz is a far bigger puncher than Lopez, he'd cave sooner

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Vano-irons

Discussion Starter · #7 · Sep 16, 2012

chatty said:
He should go in with Bundrage next, it would be a unification (even if he has to immediately give it up - or would he being a Mexican?) against a veteran boxer who is proven at the weight. He should win but K9 would at least be posing as a world level boxer who is adept at the weight.

After that he should fight Kirkland who is also beatable but can bang a little bit. Once through these then he should start setting his sights on Cotto and Mayweather etc. he is 22, there is no need to jump into these fights and imo he is still too green for the elite boxers.

Molina would be a quality scrap but I doubt GBP pull the trigger on that one. Molina is as good an example of a high risk, low reward fighter as there is at the minute.

Pretty much agree with every word mate, particularly regarding Molina. The talk of Mayweather is far too soon also, and he just isn't good enough.

Lara poses a different challenge altogether, but I'd want to see him face someone with more power. It sucks, because I think Paul Williams would have beaten him

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