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... If Canelo fights Chavez Jr,Saunders and GGG this year and wins them all?... "New pig species discovered in sky."

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Only once or twice a round but they will be long, serious, emotionally invested hugs. Only once or twice a round but they will be long, serious, emotionally invested hugs.

Fake sounding Philly Fighters? Am i the only one who thinks he comes across as a bit fake? I think he's a great fighter, has lots of heart and doesn't suck anyone. But his whole demeanor and way of talking just seems like an act. It's also pretty weird how he tries to talk black so to speak. If any of you have followed him on snapchat he's used the n word multiple times. It feels a lot like watching that kid who was always trying to speak like mayweather and Broner. You are half on it... Rosado sounds like he's from Philly. Garcia sounds like he's from Philly. That's all it is... but really... the Philly sound is disingenuous?!?! Laughable. ... Garcia does sound like BS in a grade school cafeteria, though.

I would rather see Bradley Against Thurman or brook. Brook, Thurman, Maidana, Bradley, Khan. Any combination of these would be good. I don't know why none are happening. Why the **** is Bradley moving to 154 when the names are in the division he's already in? Those *are* all good fights among any of them. But a way to get Floyd in range would be to pick up a 154 title and be generally a junior welterweight viewed as having no power that has just moved up to welter like Bradley. And Bundrage holds IBF World Light Middleweight title as the oldest reigning light/junior middle superwelter champion after destroying Carlos Molina in his back yard. Letter rating for Bundrage: A- for totally outclassing ,at age 41, Molina who whipped James Kirkland publically but lost due to corner brain outage in 2012 and drew with Lara... I like Bradley but I am not sure a win is a given, even though his only loss is to Pacquiao and Manny is so highly rated one's reputation can't take much of a beating losing to him. Unless that one is calling himself tbe with no evidence to warrant it.

Corona and Tecate are both run of the mill commercial beers made to appeal to the masses through advertising. Corona is about the equivalent of Old Milwaukee, Pabst or Coors, low commercial grade barely ok. Tecate is just as bad. There are a few decent Mexican beers I guess. I liked (the only reason I say liked is it's been years since I drank them here in the Northeast) Dos XX ok and Sol, Negro Modelo too, they are a little better than Corona and Tecate, the Miller and Budweiser or is it Budweiser and Miller of Mexican beers. Or maybe they're the pabst and Stroh's of Mexico. Most craft beers are too hopped up and too malty/sweet. Gotta have a lot of hops to justify the expense I guess. For a regular beer it's Lord Chesterfield Ale, hoppy tang but not overdone, made by "America's oldest brewery", Yuengling.

Denium: "Canelo by robbery." There it is..^^^^^^^^^^

That was not a knockdown.

Barrera - Hamed Duran - Buchanan Monzon - Benvenuti Herrera - Garcia Forrest - Mosely Tzyu - Mitchell Pacquiao - Barrera Mayweather - Cotto

I think in the end a decision either way will be the best bet. With the Canelo judges anything is possible. Mayweather may have won 11 rounds to 1 against Canelo and he still only got a majority decision. Canelo is far and away the best fight GGG has faced. Canelo's defense is good enough, his power is good enough, that I actually expect GGG to box Canelo like he did Lemieux. I'm sure a decision will get better than even odds. As far as best GGG has faced... I don't think Canelo would fare well against Martin Murray at all.

If GGG was always going to be in a meh fight next I'd rather seen him fight N'dam just to see if N'dam can finally be KO'd. He goes down a lot, but gets back up all the time and seems to win the rounds he doesn't get knocked down in. Better than no names. You just gave a description of the Lemieux fight. Ndam won except for the knockdowns. Yeah, I know... they do count.

n'dam's a pretty fun fighter. fast feet, busy hands, huge heart... and a chin that makes khan look like chuvalo he'd beat wade imo Yep. Good fighter, great chin. If scoring were logical, a fighter that wins a round but gets knocked down during it deserves a 1-1 round and N'Dam would have beaten Lemieux.

Yeah that's a dreadful fight. Would Haymon even want to put Wade in against Golovkin? What would be the point? What would be the point? GGG would be by far the biggest name any Haymon fighter has been in with.

warren sometimes pulls fighters who aren't even hurt ex: calzaghe when he got scared Calzaghe would not have been scared of Glen Johnson, he was better defensively than Roy Jones and Bernard Hopkins combined.

Slick... no doubt... the guy hasn't lost a round in years... he makes everyone look bad... nobody lands anything of consequence... I have seen him throw too hard and get off balance a few times... not if he thinks there's any danger though... he's a complete thinking fighter, easy to see really. This Wade fight should be interesting... 74 1/2 inch reach and he has some power. Not a guy Canelo would ever entertain fighting... too big.

Canelo with his ability to counter and good head movement will present a problem because GGG cuts off the ring well but he doesnt always work on the inside and gets tagged. Lesser fighters had success at mid range and inside and canelo will counter his jab ??? Who??? Who had any success at midrange or inside with GGG??? You mean someone managed to land a punch, two at most and not together, right?

I don't think stamina is a problem... He fights at such a measured pace.. I think his punching power may decrease after the middle rounds, but thats normal with any fighter. I think the ticking time bomb for GGG is the fact that he has a tendency to leave his chin up in the air, and will have lapses in head movement, especially when he is in total control.. I think someone has a better chance of catching him with a huge shot ala mccall, rahman-lennox,,, as opposed to GGG gassing out.. He knows his distance well, sees about everything. I think he keeps his chin tucked pretty well, can take a huge punch and make it seems like nothing. Of course he could be hurt by something right on the button or temple that he doesn't see. But he slips, blocks, rolls well AND takes a punch well. I've seen him off balance once or twice but that's it... it's rare. ... His stamina seems suspect until you realize he's taking these guys out later for the most part, he's not a first round KO kind of guy. I notice his deep breathing and don't think he's gassed; opponents are getting overwhelmed by the disparity of strength as the fight goes on.

Funny that they make BoxRec ratings credible all of the sudden. Sometimes you just have to load up the Chromecast and actually watch these dudes fight. Barrera is a dangerous fight. Barrera is a really tough fight. I think that's why the contract isn't signed. He wants another Paul Smith type, a non-contender who sort of looks contenderish but doesn't have a chance against any semblance of a top tier fighter. Paul Smith is MW/SMW in size, maybe Ward can get Nathan Cleverly, someone coming up or blown up and old.

I see Canelo fans don't want him fighting Rosado. Can't blame them, it's a tough fight for Canelo. Rosado sent Bute back to JMW. On the other hand, Rosada is a JMW blown up a bit, so he's at least in the running. Except he punches hard. Don't want him fighting Monroe. Way longer reach, better boxer than anyone other than Lara that Red fought. Tough fight. He sure ain't fighting Lemieux. Where are these weak MWs? Maybe he could fight Rubio. Or Stevens. What will happen? Adama probably. Ishida. He's gonna fight a JMW who's old and carrying extra weight. Maybe he could handle Bute. Geale. That's the one. He's lost several in a row.

Bunch of guys afraid of Canelo getting beat by Rosado but can't bring themselves to voice their fears... Pretty funny!

He's a decent fighter who isn't busy enough to beat Canelo by decision. The fight against John Thompson is illustrative. Thompson threw a lot more and was winning rounds due to his business yet really wasn't landing anything significant. He got points for that alone, but Smith landed better punches, snapped Thompson's head back a few times a round. He was losing on the cards somehow because he wasn't throwing a lot, but he was landing and catching Thompson's so called shots on his gloves and shoulders for the most part. He has better defense than he's given credit for, moves his head a lot, gives different looks, a lot of movement from the waist, takes tiny steps and has good balance. I suspect if he doesn't knock out Canelo it will be a wide decision via the mysterious Canelo judging that had him ahead of Khan before the KO, forced Trout to go for the KO via the open scoring which opened him up for the knockdown, and somehow had Canelo beating Lara although he had at best a draw. If Floyd came out of retirement today with no training he'd beat Canelo easily, Canelo's career has been protected not just by matchmaking but also suspect judging and refereeing.

If Canelo misses weight it would be a Floydian Slip a la Marquez. Except it would hurt him more than it did Floyd. Floyd has great defense.

And then fought the guy who knocked out the Russian. And then fought the guy who got knocked out by the Russian. As in Dmitry Pirog KOed Danny Jacobs in the 5th. One punch and done.

I don't see anybody overrating him he is what he is a strong as f*ck, technically limited puncher. I don't think its fair holding his losses against him, he was a 21yr old inexperienced kid who wasn't taking his career seriously. He has bounced back quite well and carved out a pretty good career out of the limited tools he has. He isn't the most athletic or naturally gifted guy in the world but he can fight. I remember before their fight everyone was dissing Lemieux, saying it was an easy fight for GGG. Someone pointed out that from start to contact Lemieux gets his left hook off pretty quickly, kind of like Danny Garcia, although I don't remember specifically mentioning Garcia. Then we started hearing about how scary DL was because of his left hook, and GGG was going down. Then GGG totally outboxed him and put him down and out in typical GGG style, not with one punch but with a merciless and workmanlike beatdown. Curtis Stevens was going to be a real test; truth was, KO ahead. He softened up Geale to the point even Cotto would fight him, who wouldn't dream of taking on GGG. Cotto had apparently earned the right to refuse to fight somebody that could beat him, then he made the mistake and Canelo beat him. Everybody looks the same against GGG, like lesser fighters, tomato cans, whatever colorful weak nonsense bad writers spit out in defense of whatever weak point they want to make... because he IS that good. And so... We don't hear anyone saying it's a tough fight for GGG any more, no matter who he fights. The MW division isn't bad, GGG is good. He's fought the few slick guys, he's fought big punchers. Everyone knows he wins now, so they put the division down because there is no other fighter dominating like him in any division. Fact is, he goes up, actually just fights a division up without gaining weight it's likely he runs and ruins the SMW division. I am certainly not Nostradamus, who was a huckster anyway with regard to predictions, but DeGale looks like easy work for him, same with Groves, Jack, who will be moving up, all of 'em, anyone named Dirrell, Bute, whatever... Froch wanted GGG at 172 then chickened out and "permanently" retired. I would like to see the Ramirez fight, I'd like to see lots of fights. Ideally, in GGG's world he gets to fight four times a year. The MW division should be cleaned out now, but the MW fights aren't being made. It is not him at fault. Without the obvious avoidance, which I hate to say is beginning to look conspiratorial, going on, he cleans MW out and then goes for history up higher. It's meaningless to go through these exercises, people forget but it was actually the same attitude toward Hagler during his career. He had to have guys come up to him to challenge, he fought smaller guys. He wasn't the body type to move up, same as GGG isn't. He lost to Willie The Worm, who was not great... I love that he kicked Tommy Hearns' butt like he did, but Hearns came UP. Get over trying to figure ways to put GGG and the MW division down, fights are only between two guys at a specific time and age and weight. There is no magical translation to say how good a division was at any given time. The reputations that go forward in time are not the same as what was going on in real time. GGG dominating everybody everywhere could put that nonsense to rest, but it likely won't happen because of all the hemming, hawing, wasting a month here, to months there trying to pin down a fight that doesn't happen BECAUSE OF THE OTHER SIDE. He's tried to make fights with bigger guys. They do not want it. And he is getting old, I see it, I'm sure others can too. And, just in passing, everyone hates hearing Jim Lampley go apespit over anybody. Most irritating and overreaching announcer ever.

If lemieux is c level like some of you claim what is maidana who got completely schooled and shut out by Devon Alexander LMAO. But but Maidana can improve, but Lemieux cant doe! And what about guys like Barrera, Smith, Brand, Rodriguez? F level? Good call... I get a tad wordy sometimes...

This thought has crossed my mind. The man is so dedicated to GGG I have to assume he is on the payroll. The only guys on a payroll here all have pics of Floyd in their profiles or sigs...

another horrific thread he is about to fight kovalev and threads like this are being made all of a sudden, boxing fans have long term memory...when it suits them you guys are a disgrace man He's about to fight Alexander Brand. That will most likely happen. It shouldn't add a bit to his "p4p resume".

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No contract signed yet... starting to think Eubank is just stretching Golovkin's timeline and getting himself so publicity at the same time. Really hoping the fight comes off. Hoping GGG doesn't clock him too early, because in retrospect all his opponents look like cans... after the fight. Before the fight, they're all live underdogs... Wade was going to break his face, Rubio said he would hit him which he did but to no avail... Lemieux is I think the only guy that wants to face him again and I have my doubts about that. I mean, Pascal went right back at Kovalev... wasn't smart and didn't work, but he did. We don't see this with GGG opponents.