Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Macklin Close For 6/29, Both Agree To Fight

[KingTito]

Good chit. Looking forward to it.

[Dr Rumack]

Go and watch Matthew Macklin's fights, he is not a boxer and he never will be.

Go and watch his fight with Sturm, that is how he fights and always has. He's an aggressive, some forward pressure fighter.

He is not outboxing anyone at the top level.

Golovkin is a much better boxer than Matthew Macklin is.

Yeah I always root for Macklin but this is undeniably true. Golovkin is an Olympic Silver and World Gold medalist in the amateurs. He's a quality boxer. Although Macklin did well against Sergio, he's mediocre in technical terms when it comes down to it.

[Mikhnienko]

Rosado fought a very negative fight but still got blasted out. While he did better in 10 second stretches, him fighting that negative with his lateral movement didnt help him in the least, not even win a round. You cant just win with lateral movement, you need to back up a good defense with an offense that wins rounds and fights, which is a tough balance. A guy who has a great balance i think is N'dam, who i think would have a 50-50 fight with golovkin.

Ndam backed out of several fights with Golovkin and ultimately gave up his belt rather than unify with him. He obviously doesnt hold the same opinion you do. Quillin's power and counter punching was too much for him, Gena would be a whole lot worse for him.

[DoktorSleepless]

N'dam went life in death with a 5'4 pressure fighter. Golovkin destroys him.

[Mikhnienko]

N'dam went life in death with 5'4 pressure fighter. Golovkin destroys him.

Speaking of which Lou Dibella signed Khurtsidze and he hasn't fought since he's been out of the ring for a year and a half now. Khurtsidze would give any Middleweight trouble and i hope Lou gets the guy a shot at someone relevant.

[Russian Crushin]

Ndam backed out of several fights with Golovkin and ultimately gave up his belt rather than unify with him. He obviously doesnt hold the same opinion you do. Quillin's power and counter punching was too much for him, Gena would be a whole lot worse for him.

I know, but in the moments he wasnt spending on the canvas, he was very effective in boxing Quillin. I think he'll give just about anyone at 160 problems but he's searching for easy routes

[shoog]

Golovkin puts Macklin in the deep freeze

[Alpha & Omega]

Macklin gets lullabyed 100%. A straight ahead, walking in Irishman of limited ability is tailor made for GGG lol.

[TudorMiron]

Macklin has a chance, it's a great test for Golovkin.

people forget Golovkin has been KOing of bums but he never dropped Ouma or Rosado( a guy Angulo totally blasted)

if Macklin wants to stand and trade with Golovkin it's over but if he listens to McGirt and boxes he should be able to beat Golovkin.

all Macklin has to do is keep turning Golovkin and popping him when he starts throwing wide. Golovkin's problem is he needs to be set in order to have his power. Golovkin's most dangerous rounds are the 1st 4 rounds, after that he starts to tire. just look how Rosado was backing him up in round 5.
but the cuts killed him in the end.

if you can make it out of the 1st 4 rounds against Golovkin you have a good chance at beating him. it's just making out of the 1st 4

Well Rey quey,

Yet another of your predictions regarding how easy it is to beat Golovkin. I remember one before Rosado fight - you where saying that Rosado will expose that overhyped euro bum with no skills (amateur world champ and olimpic silver medalist).
Now you keep pointing to two bad nights that GGG had (Ouma and Rosado) when he won by TKO and didn't put his opponent to sleep with one shot. To me it was absolutely clear that fight with Ouma was stopped few seconds before he would be on the canvas (thanks to ref) - he was badly hurt and went straight to hospital with multiple traumas.
Rosado... Did he win any single round? The guy was running all night long and was still beaten much worse than in any of his previous fights (including Angulo fight). Do you seriously think that if his trainer would not stop the fight (to safe Rosado's life as he said himself) he would not be KO'd before 9th?
BTW I rate Rosado highly and in fact I think he would win in a rematch with Angulo - as he's much better fighter now than he was when they met.
Golovkin needs to stay put to generate power... Lets remember GGG's KO punches in last several fights. Proksa - he was KD and KO'ed while moving and GGG was moving as well. Ishida (who never been KO'ed and KO'ed Kirkland who KO'd Angulo who KO'ed Rosado) - was stopped while moving and Gena was moving as well.
You keep saying that it's fairly easy to beat GGG with simple tricks - just get past round 4 and give him a little angles... do you think that in 300+ amateur fights in which 100+ was against elite opposition he didn't learn how to deal with it? Just go to youtube and watch his amateur fights - you'll see plenty of movers, turners etc. and he dealt with them very well.
As I mentioned before I'm fallowing GGG's career from his amateur days - he've seen it all and keeps improving.