Just saw this has been announced a few places. Sept 17th on HBO and Canelo will go back to 154 for it. Must admit this is the Smith brother I haven’t seen, how good is he? Pretty safe to bet Canelo won’t be fighting GGG now I’d think.
Apparently, This Mexican fucks around like that. 
Ah didn’t check that out sorry, obviously this was going to happen then. Not to impressed just watching a few clips of Liam Smith, looks like a mismatch.
I like Liam Smith, and I think he’s a decent fighter, but here he’s being served up to the dogs and is likely to get bashed up in this fight. He’s young, and I hope that if he is starting to ship too many shots, the corner pulls him out.
Oh great. Looks like Canelo wants to get all blush in the face and be a tough guy again. What a chump. Respect to Smith but it’s a bit like a spoiled brat storming into a toy store and demanding a discount. Nice chunk of change and spotlight for Liam but he should put a bow on the box of that trinket. So much for being too big for jr middleweight eh red?
Figured Canelo would fight a softie instead of a challenge. I will be surprised if his bitch move with GGG doesn’t have significant negative impacts on this fights numbers. Think Canelo hurt his brand/image by calling GGG out and then ducking him like a punk.
Seriously??
Quite the opposite for me. Canelo is an established, carefully manufactured brand. Anointed the new “greatest thing in boxing” (now there’s a distinction that has dropped in value)… Canelo can do nothing short of actually saying in plain Spanish that he has no intention of going anywhere near anyone who poses a real danger to him unless he has a serious size advantage… and Oscar will spin it into some sort of “marination” theory.
His PPV value is bullet-proof, helped along by legions of Braille-reading fans.
I honestly don’t know why anyone would want to fight Canelo unless it’s just for the payday, no one is beating Canelo on the scorecards I think that’s pretty obvious by now so unless your like ggg who’s coming for the ko why bother fighting Canelo except for the payday.
I like Liam Smith, he’s a nasty little fucker, I remember in one of his recent fights he give someone a good dig and you could actually hear him cackle afterwards, always gets a good smirk on his face when he hurts someone.
He was pretty much punch perfect in his last fight against a bum, unfortunately there is no way that I can see him beating old ginger flaps, I’ll be seriously fucking cheering Smith on regardless
The payday is what drives all professional fighters. After Floyd and Pacquaio had won countless world titles, they were still driven by the payday. The payday even convinced Jean Pascal to fight Kovalev a second time and take another bad beating.
Canelo is very good and he’s also a bully cunt and the biggest draw in boxing right now. He’ll have no shortage of guys lining up to fight him for that fuck money.
I would love it for Liam to pull off an upset. It would be magic.
The Mexican community should never buy the ppv event.
Canelo is just turning out to be junk now…he’s chicken! He’s waiting GGG out who turns 35 next April. It’s bullshit and boxing is the big loser.
I would love it if they accidentally signed to fight Callum ;D
I would love it if they accidentally signed to fight Callum ;D[/QUOTE]
Oddly enough Canelo will be the size of Callum when he gets in the ring with Liam. That is grossly unfair.
Does Liam Smith not blow up above 154 on fight nights? He doesn’t look smaller than Canelo. It’s not unfair if a fighter makes weight the same way everyone else does, whatever you think of Canelo he’s not the only guy who can move weight easily. Of course the catch weights were a different thing, and I’m not defending this fight or anything, but Canelo isn’t any bigger than the Charlo brothers or Andrade.
Well if true i think he should just drop the belt at 160 and fight at 154 which is fine with me if thats the weight class he chooses to fight at but he needs to make up his mind. I still do not get how he gains so much weight i have seen him in person he is not a very big dude.
he already has given up the wbc belt, shame the fight with golovkin didnt happen but I think fighting cotto and khan as his two “middleweight” title fights is not proper preparation to take on golovkin. If golovkin is taking on eubank jr next and canelo v smith, then maybe they are trying to build up a uk fanbase for a potential golovkin v canelo fight.. Canelo certainly needs some fights v real middleweights before he takes on golovkin though in my opinion.
he already has given up the wbc belt, shame the fight with golovkin didnt happen but I think fighting cotto and khan as his two “middleweight” title fights is not proper preparation to take on golovkin. If golovkin is taking on eubank jr next and canelo v smith, then maybe they are trying to build up a uk fanbase for a potential golovkin v canelo fight.. Canelo certainly needs some fights v real middleweights before he takes on golovkin though in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I think that is wishful thinking, Eubank Jr yeah maybe, Smith on the otherhand is not known outside of boxing fans, Callum is probably a bigger name and its Liam that has the world title, if anything a Canelo v Smith fight will raise Smith’s profile in England and not old ginger flaps
Understand why everyone thinks this is shit because Smith is unknown in the UK let alone the US. And Canelo has blatantly swerved Golovkin. However, I think it’s a decent fight. Smith is a bit of a lump at 154 too, and a solid box/puncher.