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Pirog got hit a lot by Ishida. Maybe Pirog didn't respect Ishida's power enough to care when he got hit and didn't bother too much to avoid the punches. But Pirog kept on doing those same defensive moves he always does yet he still got tagged a lot. I now think a lot his movement is just invective flash seeing how it didn't help much against Ishida.
I was originally thinking Pirog would beat Golovking because I saw how easily Golovkin got hit by Ouma, but Ouma is a much better fighter than Ishida. I'm going to have to go for the guy with power, which is Golovkin. Not by KO though. My guess is a win by decision for landing the more effective punches.
To be honest though, I have no idea. Both of them, especially Golovkin, haven't fought much competition to know how they'll do in the top contender level.
It's not made publicly, but I'm almost positive an agreement with step aside money is almost always involved whenever a belt organization doesn't supposedly enforce a mandatory. I'm guessing that's the case even for Golovkin and Sturm. So it probably isn't about inconsistency as much as backroom deals that aren't revealed. In the case of Pirog, N'jikam probably refused the step aside offer while Sukhotsky didn't. This is all just conjecture of course, but it wouldn't surprise me.
I was originally thinking Pirog would beat Golovking because I saw how easily Golovkin got hit by Ouma, but Ouma is a much better fighter than Ishida. I'm going to have to go for the guy with power, which is Golovkin. Not by KO though. My guess is a win by decision for landing the more effective punches.
To be honest though, I have no idea. Both of them, especially Golovkin, haven't fought much competition to know how they'll do in the top contender level.
It's not made publicly, but I'm almost positive an agreement with step aside money is almost always involved whenever a belt organization doesn't supposedly enforce a mandatory. I'm guessing that's the case even for Golovkin and Sturm. So it probably isn't about inconsistency as much as backroom deals that aren't revealed. In the case of Pirog, N'jikam probably refused the step aside offer while Sukhotsky didn't. This is all just conjecture of course, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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