It's unfortunate that the Heavyweight Champion of the World has to resort to obviously fake stunts like this just to try and sell a fight. Notice how there were no other people in the restaurant that might have been hit by flying food bowls and utensils? They probably rented the place out for an hour just to film this stunt on a (vertical, I might add) iPhone to post on Youtube. All Mike Tyson had to do was fight people.
Kovalev clearly punches harder than GGG, and he actually wears regular gloves to accomplish it.
GGG probably hits 75% as hard, but every single one of his shots is that hard. A guy like Kovalev gets his power from leverage, so he needs distance and positioning to pull it off. GGG can fire from any distance and hurt you. Kovalev can take you out, but he needs to plant his feet first.
Adonis Stevenson probably hits harder than both of them, but he very clearly has to plant his feet, widen his stance and drop his rear knee to unload with full power (this is the Emanuel Steward method).
Pure force:
Stevenson
Kovalev
GGG
Force with Snap:
Kovalev
GGG
Stevenson
Horsehair isn't literally the hair of a horse. It's just an old-fashioned term that's used to describe acrylic fiber strands. They do resemble horsehair, but it's not actually organic material.
Maidana would hurt Floyd with puncher's gloves. That's why he won't be fighting in them.
I like Freddie but he is just making excuses for Cotto who would fight GGG next if he were a true middleweight like Hagler or Monzon.
Fixed it for you.
People in this thread don't seem to realize that if he actually did enter this "contest," he would probably not even win, and would have wasted many hours of his professional time designing something for absolutely nothing. Meanwhile, he has rent to pay, other clients to attend to, and actual paying work to be done.
This type of contest isn't anything new. We were learning about how to avoid it back when I was in art school, and that was just under ten years ago. It's usually reserved for overtly-illegitimate businesses who would then turn around and have someone in-house go through all the submissions, steal ideas from the good ones and design something themselves based on those ideas. It's a very old practice and it's a no-brainer (at least to anyone with a little common sense) that you wouldn't even give that email the time of day. He just happened to respond to it, tweeted about it, and got some attention.
Dan did the smart thing and actually got more press from his tweet than he ever would have from losing some "contest" for a boxing event poster.
The real question here is - why is Showtime, of all people, not working with a stable of designers already?
He was pretty athletically gifted, had decent hand and foot speed and a pretty unpredictable, varied offense, but his power was always massively overstated. I'm not just basing that on his level of opposition, but he simply wasn't the heavily concussive power puncher he was always built up as. Just another example of how misleading these knockout ratios are.
Mikey Garcia said he was the hardest puncher he ever sparred with. That includes, Victor Ortiz, Maidana, etc.
Floyd never said that. Gabe Rosado said he could feel Golovkin's wraps through his gloves, which implies that either padding has been removed or his gloves aren't made to fair standards.
Golovkin's gloves have always looked smaller / less padded than this opponents. If he has smaller gloves made to fit his smaller hands (as one poster previously alleged), that would explain the visual discrepancy. No idea whether or not that's true. Doesn't sound like that sort of thing would be legal, anyway.
Based on that first photo vs. Rosado, he definitely has a point.
I've been the one guy that said all this glove controversy was nonsense, but that first photo shows more of a size discrepancy than the difference between 8oz and 10oz gloves!
The whole horsehair glove excuse is complete nonsense. Cleto Reyes gloves are horsehair and foam, and they look just as bulky as any other glove. The filling just happens to be softer, so you have more force being generated by the impact due to the compression ratio with the surface of the fist. The problem here is that GGG's gloves look extremely compact compared to his opponents'. This would have nothing to do with horsehair being used for padding.
Based on that first photo alone, something is up with his gloves. And I hate to say that.
This just makes you realize how idiotic it is for them to inspect and try on the gloves 24 hours (or whatever) before the fight.
They have a 3-month training camp, so why not give them a month to choose their colors / design and have them made, then have the factory make them in month 2, then have them inspected and protected by the commission at the beginning of month 3. You'd have an entire month to examine the gloves and settle any disputes before the fight.
Doesn't make any sense to do it right before the fight.
I just hope Kovalev avoids him. He can probably beat him, but even if he does, he'll be a ruined fighter. Bernard Hopkins ruins fighters. He'll never be the same afterwards.
Julian Jackson not only hit harder, but his speed was much great than Golovkin. That's why his knockouts were so scary. Not only was he the hardest puncher in history, but the other fighter didn't see the shots coming. Mike McCallum said the same thing.
Emanuel Steward would have never said "he continued to persist, but I was having none'a'that," so that's where you lost me.
The phrase also doesn't make sense - to persist is to continue, so you're saying "he continued to continue."
Hard to gouge eyes with thumb-less gloves. Rios was just being a ghetto loud mouth crybaby per usual.
So-called "thumbless" gloves aren't actually thumbless. It's essentially the same exact thing, just that the thumb compartment is attached to the main hand compartment by a thin strip of leather. You can still move it independently of the main hand compartment and gouge an eye.
No. You're not superstar material if you're 20-0 with only 8 KO's. Not going to happen.
They'll try to match him carefully over the next few years, but he'll eventually get exposed.
Even blocked punches from Tyson would KO all of these guys. They're four weight classes apart, and he was destroying natural heavyweights who were physically much larger than him.
Floyd is something special. We're going to miss him when he's gone. Not saying this because I like him, but because it's true. He makes it seem so easy that you don't realize it until it's too late. Top 5 ATG easily.
Froch isn't a puncher, but he's a bigger man. GGG hits hard for a middleweight, but people forget that even Julian Jackson didn't carry his punch up to middleweight. Weight classes are there for a reason. GGG doesn't hit as hard as the hardest puncher Froch has faced.
That said, Froch is past it, so it makes it an equal fight.
1) He pulled the shot before landing it.
2) Mike Tyson hit Freddie Roach at full power back when Roach trained him. Freddie didn't drop or go down. I guess Tyson ain't a big puncher, huh?