Comments Thread For: Canelo on Likelihood of Stopping Golovkin To The Body: 'A Lot. It's One of My Best Punches'

[Rebelrbg]

I believe GGG is going to enjoy punishing him slowly over the first few rounds and then goad Cinnabon to fight emotionally to gas him. Then the triple OG GGG will pick him apart using the jab and his own powerful body shots to set up the combinations. By the 9th he will bring in and turn up the beats and the great fraudulent Ginger will succumb to the old man's onslaught. If he dies, he dies. LFG!!!

[Madison Boxing]

doubt he will cause any real damage, never looked like hurting ggg in the last two fights

[Bro. Steve]

Matthew Macklin would tell you that Golovkin has a pretty good left hook to the body. ("Broke two 'o me ribs!" said Macklin.) It'll be an interesting fight, for sure. As an official old guy, I'm rooting for the old guy. Both of these guys have proven themselves to be preternaturally tough, so I'd be surprised if there was a knockout or stoppage. As always, when anybody fights Canelo, Golovkin must overcome the automatic four-round scoring advantage that Canelo never fails to get in Vegas. I used to wonder if Canelo is embarrassed by that, but lately I see him in interviews where he goes off in a hurt-feelings tirade against GGG, making it blazingly obvious that he's deeply ashamed of having a significant part of his great record comprised of absurdly bad judging.

Having said that, Canelo is a very, very good fighter, good power, some slick moves, and he's really good at exploiting a guy who is getting too predictable (as Saunders found out). Golovkin has a jousting lance of a jab, but Canelo can't be slain by a jab like Lemieux was. GGG's going to have to put some serious leather on Canelo, which ain't easy, because Canelo took lessons from Mayweather on how to be hard to hit. And I don't know if it's true, but I've read that Canelo is clearly not juicing this time around. If it is true, that promises to make things more interesting too.

Even at 40, power and stamina favor GGG. Hand speed and boxing "slickness" favor Alvarez. As for motivation, that could go either way. If Alvarez goes in there trying to blow out GGG in the first few rounds, he'll punch himself out and be vulnerable to the old GGG specialty of pinning the opponent on the ropes and beating him till his ribs or eye sockets break. But if Alvarez can channel his energy into 12 rounds of sharpness, ****ing on GGG's ribs and avoiding the obvious right hand counter, he could win a first-of-a-kind honest decision on points.

[Jab jab boom]

Canelo is corny. He’ll celebrate this win as if he actually did something legendary, meanwhile he knows that he ducked a prime ggg and couldn’t get a real win over a late 30’s ggg. It’s like when dudes celebrated beating a past prime Roy Jones knowing prime for prime they wouldn’t have had success.

[Malvado]

The fact that Golovkin is now at his fourties fighting lesser opposition until Murata doesn't bode well for him. Since 2018 he only fought twice in 2019 and once during each year during 2020-2022.

In the other hand Canelo fought Daniel Jacobs, Kovalev, Callum Smith, Billie Joe Saunders, Caleb Plant and a loss against Dmitry Bivol.

I personally am not that big follower of Canelo, I mean he no way won against Bivol, but the fact that after this loss he is willing to fight someone who would still give a beating to most middleweight contenders and even champions now is admirable.

He is on the rise while GGG is on the decline compared to four years ago, wouldn't be shocked if Canelo pulled off what Ryota Murata didn't.

[Realboxlife]

Nice to see that Canelo hasn't lost any confidence from the Bivol fight.

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall...again.

Hasn't lost any confidence?? Now he found an excuse to duck Mexicans. Benavidez and zurdo gilberto rodriguez would both beat canelos ass. That some soft shh saying u won't fight a Mexican. Bet if he was broke and that payday came up he would fight any Mexican. Canelo played himself. Money got to his head

[KO MX]

Nah I don't think so, in 24 rounds he wasn't close to hurt lil g, he will outboxing tho

[angkag]

Canelo has finally waited GGG out. I think it will be a good fight, but I don't give much of chance to GGG (as much as I want him to win) to win or even lead to a controversial loss this time. Not at this stage and that's ok, I hope he'll earn a ton of money and will not have any permanent damage. He had a great career, one of the best MW ever, clearly beat Canelo in their first fight, realistically should have got a draw in the second. And Canelo is hailed as an ATG by many, which, given GGG's level of skill and achievements in the sport, I'd extrapolate on GGG. To me they are more or less on the same level, too bad we'll never know truly who the better fighter is with 8 years difference between them.

Yup, couldn't agree more. The 8 year age difference meant we never got to see prime vs prime, and GGG at a minimum equalled Canelo in the first two outings even with the advanced age. Now GGG at 40, and was visibly easier to hit vs Murata, Canelo will be able to pick him off. I suspect Canelo knows it won't be a body shot though, it will be an uppercut GGG walks into while protecting the body. Wouldn't be surprised if GGG is pulled by his corner late on .

[alexjust]

Yup, couldn't agree more. The 8 year age difference meant we never got to see prime vs prime, and GGG at a minimum equalled Canelo in the first two outings even with the advanced age. Now GGG at 40, and was visibly easier to hit vs Murata, Canelo will be able to pick him off. I suspect Canelo knows it won't be a body shot though, it will be an uppercut GGG walks into while protecting the body. Wouldn't be surprised if GGG is pulled by his corner late on .

I'd say it's a possibility that he will be stopped, but unlikely with anything to his jaw. You need to be a hard punching CW to stop GGG in the face. Beterbiev- possibly, but I wouldn't bet on it. If he is stopped, that would be a body punch. His corner? Nah, Jonathon won't do it and GGG won't let him. My prediction is that Canelo beats him on points legitimately for once but in a close fight. A small voice in my head also suggests that G might upset Canelo, but that's probably a wishful thinking.

[Elastic Recoilz]

GGG's biggest weakness is definitely to the body and Canelo does have a shot at landing the punch but it has to be the PERFECT shot, not just any body shot with a tad of power behind it. Golovkin's focus is switched on for the full 36 mins of fights so to get him to the body with anything potentially fight ending has to be a shot which is thrown thrown the right distance, at the exact right time and with sufficient power for no come backs. Canelo has the tools to do it but the way both fighters styles mesh together it is unlikely.

Canelo was targeting Golovkin's body in the rematch especially round 6 but they didn't bother him because they weren't knockout shots, they good punches (if that makes sense). The way they fought at close quarter's, in the pocket and with both staying on the centre line for as long as possible meant Canelo couldn't throw a knockout body shot. Unless he tries something new which weren't in the first or the rematch fights I'd say a body shot KO from Canelo is unlikely.