If you take a look at his career, he's almost consistently shown to injure his opponents, whether it be from broken bones or cuts. It takes a lot of power to do that but as he got older, he lost the snap that he once had and of course the competition got better. It's not difficult to see how much different his punches are now compared to his 20's and early 30's.
Is GGG's Power Overrated?
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Everyone does not agree that GGG is the most overrated boxer recently because Terrence Crawford's resume and cherry picking are even worse. At least GGG fought the top guys at middleweight and fought an elite in Canelo. Crawford fights faded former champs and bums.Obviously everyone agrees that GGG is the most overrated boxer recently. But is his power overrated too? I noticed that despite all of his knockouts, when Kell Brook came up from 147, he couldn't drop him or hurt him. If you have devastating power as a middleweight, how is it possible not to drop a welterweight when you land clean? Did the middleweights he fought just have terrible chins? Miguel Cotto knocked out Daniel Geale just as fast as GGG, and Cotto is a small welterweight. Then he could'nt even KO Danny Jacobs who got brutally KOd by Pirog and dropped by Mora.
GGG also couldn't hurt Dervenchenko at all. He struggled to finish Murray and Lemeiux, but BJS who can't punch for **** hurt those two even though he didn't KO them.Comment
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He has very good power, but it's not at Wilder's level(p4p). I think where GGG's power shines is that his jab is VERY heavy, similar to Kovalev (although Kovalev has a faster and better jab), so when fighters taste the jab the are already getting hurt. Over his power is like an 8.5/10 maybe 9/10, which is very very good, but not quite at that Julian Jackson level.Comment
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He nor his power has been overrated, he's just old and slower now. Easier to avoid.
Anybody who knows anything about the game understands that math, why don't you?Comment
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5-6 years ago Charlo, Andrade, Peter Quillen, Canelo (to some degree) all wanted nothing to do with him when he was early 30's now thats hes almost 40 they suddenly get courage to call him out lmaoComment
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Nothing is more overrated than Jermall`s power.
I don`t know if GGG is overrated, I just know Canelo needed to a robbery to beat him.Comment
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