Great posting chapscaldo2025 wrote: ↑22 Sep 2021, 10:45If we’re being honest here, let’s just state what really happened with Callum. #1 his corner should have stopped the fight when their fighter stopped trying to win this fight. He took many unnecessary blows after essentially submitting in the last half of this bout. To me, it’s clear that somewhere within those first six rounds, Callum’s goal became taking this fight to the end and to last longer than his brother did. Someone with his wind span and length could easily use those attributes to stay in fight and last. That’s what he did and I lost all respect for his game. To be in a fight like that and to clearly give up on winning in order to say that he lasted 12 rounds with Canelo is sad. Sorry to say it about a boxer but it’s a sad state of mind and is a weak mentality to me. The greats wouldn’t even consider this tactic for a second much less pursue it for those championship rounds.Enlightened-One wrote: ↑22 Sep 2021, 08:05Callum Smith explained the following to Boxing Social:caldo2025 wrote: ↑22 Sep 2021, 04:09Come on EO, please think about his fights since jumping up to challenge the world champions. Do you remember how deadly Callum Smith was supposed to be? This kid was so outmanned that his goal of winning the fight quickly caonverted to just being able to finish it just after 5 rounds with Canelo. To me, this was worse than a KO. When someone stops throwing punches to win and instead resorts to tying up and not putting out the punches requiring them to win due to fears of being countered, that’s worse than KO or Submission.
“[My arm] is füçkéd, to be honest with you,
“And it was intentional, because I knew from the first round... [Canelo] was aiming for my arm, every right hook he kept throwing [at it], he was going for my arm...
“And then after round four, I told [my corner] my arm is füçkêd,
“He kind of took away my catch left-hook, which is my best shot, which was probably [their plan]
“When he was hitting my arm, it was making my arm drop, rather than being able to return with it. He took [my best] shot away from me.
“And every credit to him, he knew what he was doing.
“After the twelfth round, he just looked [at it] and laughed at the swelling.
“It was just his experience... because he took away my best shot!”
I hope that explains what happened during the Canelo-Smith bout, since it was clear the Mexican was intentionally trying to punch and damage the Brits arm.
In the same video, as well as discussing the Mexican's arm punching tactics, Callum Smith also claimed that he wasn't particularly impressed with Canelo's power.
To me, Canelo’s defeat of Callum Smith was more thorough than Khan’s KO. At least Khan had some moments early and was attempting to win each second. Mark my words, Callum Smith’s career is most likely over after the damage Canelo did to him and I’m mostly referring to the damage upstairs. Once a boxer gets to those thoughts whilst in the biggest fight of their lives, it’s over. Maybe an extended layoff could change a mindset so utterly destroyed and could possibly revitalize a strong willed boxer. But most of the time, these kinds of losses forever change fighters and very few reclaim that edge or spirit to become great.
I didn't know the aftermath of the fight and Smiths comments. Generally I focus on the lead up, and the fight, and move on to the next one.
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