Yeah, it's the one thing holding me back from calling Canelo a special fighter. There are times when he looks a class above fighters like GGG and Jacobs in the ring, and he would thoroughly dominate them but I guess it's his stamina that makes the fights much closer than they should've.
That's the fight I'm looking for too. Thank you for the heads up. I just got home and looking for the fight.
Canelo's on the short side for the division, but he's bigger than most realize. He looked natural at that weight.
If he was a beast, he would've destroyed Donaire at this stage of his career.
Don't be stupid. Donaire has extreme power in both hands at this weight, is naturally bigger (he looked at least 10 lbs bigger in that ring), and has never been knocked down/knocked out at 118 until this fight (that body blow in round 11 should've been a KO). Inoue did extremely well- he showed he can take a solid punch and that he can still fight well when things go wrong. Winning that fight with a cut over his eye and blurred vision since round 2 was a huge testament to his skill.
It's not being stupid. Donaire is way past his prime and old. Inoue is top P4P fighter in his prime. The perception before the fight was Inoue would destroy. It's funny how almost every prediction from every major boxing website predicted Inoue by early KO.
It's not like old fighters just roll over and die once they're past their prime lol, plenty of old veterans have put up amazing fights vs new up and comers. But yeah, I do agree everyone was too caught up in the Inoue hype though, thinking he'd get Donaire out in under 4 or 5 rounds.
Likely that Inoue was slightly overrated P4P wise, but still a really good fighter. That's why we constantly change our perceptions and analysis of fighters after every fight with who they fought how did they do. I always favored Errol Spence over Terrance Crawford, but after his fight with Porter, I think I might favor Crawford now.
Not sure if it makes sense to decide based on a certain fight, certain things come into play that wasn't expected like cuts,etc
Nonito Donaire. is nowhere near the same fighter he was in his prime. A young top 5 P4P fighter in his prime with high KO ratio was expected to destroy Donaire. That fight gave us a better measure of where he is and that he's been slightly overhyped. However that could change as he fights more top fighters.
