Comments Thread For: Golovkin: Let's Face It, I'm 40 Years Old and Nearing My Retirement

[Bronx2245]

that’s what I intended to type. 164. He was willing to fight others at 168 but only Ward would’ve had to drop to 164. We all know that those catch weight games are really just ways to duck a fight you don’t want.

Exactly. As for your earlier statement, about "if we're being honest, he already beat Canelo..." then if we're being honest, didn't he lose to Dervy?

[Elastic Recoilz]

I will always remember GGG for "anybody from 154-168," but "Ward at 164!" Had he neaten Ward @ 168, and Canelo @ 160, he would be an ATG in my book! Hindsight is 20/20! Because he didn't do either, he'll always be a level below B-Hop!

In their primes GGG would've battered Hopkins, probably knocked him out and all.

[Bronx2245]

In their primes GGG would've battered Hopkins, probably knocked him out and all.

I highly doubt that! If Roy Jones Jr. (who is way better than GGG) couldn't stop B-Hop in '93, than GGG wasn't going to do it either!

[Jab jab boom]

Exactly. As for your earlier statement, about "if we're being honest, he already beat Canelo..." then if we're being honest, didn't he lose to Dervy?

I thought he lost to Derveyenchenko for sure.

[Elastic Recoilz]

40 . . . nearing retirement . . . stepping up in weight . . . .

Sounds a lot like excuses to me.

Canelo wouldn't have the bawlz to step in the ring sober with anybody at 40 years of age...

[Bronx2245]

I thought he lost to Derveyenchenko for sure.

You are not alone:

Gennadiy Golovkin wins title with unanimous decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko

NEW YORK -- After a historic middleweight world title reign in which Gennadiy Golovkin made a division-record 20 consecutive title defenses before it came to an end by controversial decision at the hands of Canelo Alvarez some 13 months ago, GGG yearned for another title belt.

He got it on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, but his brawl with Sergiy Derevyanchenko in a fight-of-the-year candidate might have been the hardest fight of his career and a result that will be debated for years to come.

Golovkin won a unanimous decision and a vacant middleweight world title before an announced crowd of 12,577, but he certainly did not look like the destroyer he has long been.

Judges Frank Lombardi and Eric Marlinski both scored the fight 115-112 and Kevin Morgan had it 114-113 for Golovkin, who dropped Derevyanchenko in the first round and cut him over the right eye in the second but seemed to struggle mightily with Derevyanchenko's relentlessness for much of the fight. ESPN scored the fight 114-113 for Derevyanchenko, who failed in a second bid to win a 160-pound world title.

https://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/27777200/gennadiy-golovkin-wins-title-unanimous-decision-sergiy-derevyanchenko

[Elastic Recoilz]

I highly doubt that! If Roy Jones Jr. (who is way better than GGG) couldn't stop B-Hop in '93, than GGG wasn't going to do it either!

Different styles, different styles. GGG from 22-32 was a fluid pressure fighter with ridiculous power in both hands. It would've been an absolute war but I believe within the championship rounds GGG finally finds an edge and breaks Hopkins down.

[Bronx2245]

Different styles, different styles. GGG from 22-32 was a fluid pressure fighter with ridiculous power in both hands. It would've been an absolute war but I believe within the championship rounds GGG finally finds an edge and breaks Hopkins down.

Too basic for B-Hop! B-Hop stopped Oscar @ age 39, and fought him at a catchweight, and came in at 156lbs.! Levels!

[ELPacman]

He's not lying. It's also not a good look when he couldn't get the "W" when he was younger. You think he's going to get it now that he gets hit more and activity has decreased? You got to be nuts to bet on him.

[P to the J]

I think most of us hopes he can but nobody really believes it

Probably about right