Canelo haters: Put your money where your mouth is!

Canelo haters are out in force, swearing that Dud Crawford will win their super fight. Talk is cheap. Pull out your billfold and Show Me The Money. Put up... or Shut Up.  Never has a conglomerate of supposed “experts” blasphemed a champion of Canelo’s stature. Andre Ward. Tim Bradley. Ronnie Shields. Derrick James. Bill Haney. Roy Jones. Antonio Tarver.  Shakur Stevenson. Amir Khan. Teddy Atlas. Paulie Malignaggi. Kenny and Shawn Porter. Breadman Edwards. Bernard Hopkins Tim Tszyu.  Israel Madrimov. “Mean Machine” Kavalauskas.

The predictions fall heavily in line with race. No surprise in the fight game since time memorial. However, when it comes to super fights, time was when boxing industry insiders set race aside after the 60’s. They stood on integrity and genuine boxing insights and intuition. The social media era makes that impossible today. How do I know this?

Because Crawford outgrew lightweight after many years then jumped to 140 and stayed a good while. He went into his 30’s and grew into welterweight. He had great success in the lighter weights; at welter he dodged true challenges. He avoided Porter, Kell Brook, and Amir Khan until they were completely shot. He refused to fight Keith Thurman and even the aged PacMan. 

He finally took on Spence as he’d milked the cow dry and saw a cash-out. Fortunately for Dud, Spence by then, had become a raging drunk and left his superb skill set on a roadway and sidewalk after being ejected from his Ferrari at 100 MPH. Toss in another car crash and a detached retina and his Dud victory is severely tainted.

When Dud proudly names Postal and Ricky -I’m Weak-As-Hell- Burns as the best names on his resume… that pitiful statement says it all.  So those are some of the reasons I believe social media and culture rob The Fight Game of integrity. Case closed, so S.T.O.P. I.T.  Just quit it!

The Canelo believers are scattered and lean heavily into the Hispanic persuasion. Andy Ruiz. Abel Sanchez. Vergil Ortiz. Mikey Garcia. Robert Garcia. Teofimo Lopez. Rolly Romero. David Benevides. Sebastian Fundora. Eddie Hearn is an outlier. Lol.  The scarcity of “experts” picking Canelo is a boxing felony. His resume slaps the nonsense out of the foolish.

Vegas Odds. The sharpies and money men know Canelo is in zero danger from Crawford. Money Talks and BullCrap Walks.

The Worst Offenders: The Mickey Mouse Boxing “Experts” on YouTube. I cruise in for updates, and these random morons have plastered fake headlines on fully 90% of the content! Ya got one guy with exaggerated eyeballs bulging outta his head and calls himself “Ego”. Try Egor. Another bum is 60+ and weakly hitting the heavy bag, and -no eye contact-bragging that he could go pro “EZ”. Another non-boxing Bozo calls himself “Coach” Malachi or some bizarre handle. 

“JohnnyBoy” has a nice platform, but he wears a dirty T-shirt and is clueless. The slicker platforms are not independent—they spew company sponsor propaganda and haven’t had an original thought or opinion in years.

And the funniest thing about the YouTube boxing clown car is that some of these bums feature high-profile guests!  So, maybe I’m the hater.

These Guys Should Know Better But Don’t: Paulie “The Hater” Malignaggi. He has the nerve to propagate the ridiculous narrative that Canelo is not an elite fighter and never has been. Yes. Paulie. The guy who got humiliated by the drunken Adrien Broner. He swears Canelo lost to Cotto, Trout, Lara, and barely beat a dozen others. Claims his resume is “padded”. The things these cats will say prostitute themselves and reflect badly on them.

Teddy “Scarface” Atlas. The guy sniffed Cuz D’Amatos’s jock strap back when Tyson was a youth and Teddy held the mitts for him. He milked training Michael Moorer as a champ…but got him KO’d by an ancient George Foreman He did nothing else and got rewarded with an ESPN gig he didn’t deserve. Made a career out of two quotes: “They agreed to a silent contract not to fight hard”. And “Yer gonna hate yerself tomorrow for what yer doing in here today!” He trumpets Dud Crawford strictly for clicks. Sold out.

Tim Bradley. He built a big profile just because he doesn’t mumble or talk ghetto.  The corporate suits loved it.  Kinda like Shawn Porter. Black but not “too” Black.

All you need to know about Bradley is this: Just like Nonito “My nuts are in my wife’s purse” Donaire, his wife was his manager. She couldn’t run a lemonade stand, and he trusted her to negotiate with BOB ARUM! Yeah. Imagine that! Bob chewed up that sub-grade moron and laughed all the way to the bank. Tim watches First Take cuzz he throws out wild takes and knows it will attract tons of ignorant eyeballs.

 Kinda like the “Latin Snake”. He too hates on Canelo’s success.

Me? I’m Chavez. So, I’m for Canelo, of course.  LOL. Boxing. The greatest sport of all--- with the best fans in the world!

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