People saying Canelo has improved 10 fold since his Mayweather fight over exaggerate. He's still the same fighter, just has that big fight experience and maybe added a few tweaks to his game, but all in all he's the same fighter skill wise. At least I don't see this huge improvement. He was fighting pretty damn even with Caleb Plant and BJS leading up to those stoppages, so it was pretty clear he could still be outboxed. But the people who claimed he was on a different level and could walk through who ever he faced, bought into this false narrative that he was a completely different fighter out there.apollo creed wrote: ↑09 May 2022, 13:58 Regarding to Canelo's game plan, it was a decent game plan to a certain point. I mean he succeeded to hurt Bivol's left arm like he did with Callum but Bivol was a better and a stronger opponent than Callum. The problem with Canelo was that he only relied on that single game plan ie to chop down gradually Bivol.
Canelo as a very seasoned elite fighter should've been prepared by his trainer to have more game plans and different ways of fighting.
I'm not sure Canelo could do much with Bivol in a rematch. I could even see the rematch going worse for Canelo. It seemed to me Bivol could have stepped on the gas later in that fight and really put it to Canelo worse than he did. Based on Canelos history of coming on strong late in fights I feel Bivol stayed honest and he decided to just win the decision and call it a day, rather than push more for a stoppage. Fatigue and frustration had already set in for Canelo mid fight and his body language told the story, he knew he had nothing to really trouble Bivol at that point.
