Comments Thread For: Daniel Geale Says Retirement is Not an Option

[Jewish-Reptile]

Give it up dude. You suck after Gennady beat the prime out of you. He faced you as a top fighter and ended you as a shot destroyed fighter.

Was Geale ever a top fighter ? He lost to Darren Barker before facing GGG. You need to get to grips with reality. Some of the stuff you have been writing in the fantasy betting forum, is well, something that comes straight from a 'fantasy' world. The fact you put this stuff across as your actual belief is what concerns us all though.

Your posts really the trashiest and worst of the worst, ok folk can enjoy a little trolling here and there but yours is done in such a manner with total disregard for factual based support it is laughable. I'm astounded an interloper like yourself as lasted this long on the forum. Only yesterday you demanded somebody apologise to you as they made you feel ' uncomfortable ' WTF man, this is a boxing forum !!

[M Bison]

Give it up dude. You suck after Gennady beat the prime out of you. He faced you as a top fighter and ended you as a shot destroyed fighter.

This, I think GGG stole his soul in a bad way!
GGG is doing what Bhop was doing in his prime, he is beating opponents and ruining them completely after its done.

[Mike D]

What a relief....

lmao

Seriously though, Geale doesn't need to hang it up, he just needs to step back down a level. And stay there. He doesn't have the talent to compete with the top shelf guys. And that's okay. A lot of solid, respectable fighters don't. He gave it a whirl (twice) against 2 of the best in the sport, and it's pretty clear that he had no chance against either.

No need to keep f**king around with dudes above your talent grade.

[PETUFF]

Don't retired just go to the heavy weight division and try luck there!

[baya]

Give it up dude. You suck after Gennady beat the prime out of you. He faced you as a top fighter and ended you as a shot destroyed fighter.

shut your god-damn mouth.

[Greed.]

Who wants to see him again? He's pretty much quit twice in his last 3 fights.

[bigjer88]

Nah retirement ain't an option but going back to the root and getting a better trainer is a definite...
What a ******ed gameplan he set to beat Cotto, he clearly has all the assets to soundly outbox Cotto but he never once displayed it because he was too busy trying to be the bully in that fight against the shorter man and slower guy he was playing into every advantage of Cottos...
Instead of looking at how easily Trout schooled him he decided to try and beat Cotto in an entirely different fashion which was never in his type of style, dumb, very dumb!

Not so sure about that. Cotto's performance against Trout is not enough to go on when judging Cotto's boxing ability. Cotto's been fighting much more aggressively under Roach than under Diaz. Had Geale been disciplined in attempting to control range and dictate pace, the Roach-trained Cotto still would have found his way through.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Not so sure about that. Cotto's performance against Trout is not enough to go on when judging Cotto's boxing ability. Cotto's been fighting much more aggressively under Roach than under Diaz. Had Geale been disciplined in attempting to control range and dictate pace, the Roach-trained Cotto still would have found his way through.

Whst about a against a guy who was able to maintain a healthy weight amongst his muscle composition in the build up to the fight and during the fight too ?

We'll never know if Cotto could have beaten a 160 Geale as Cotto denied his own fans that privilege. Fighting a guy who usually throws 80 punches a round to facing a guy who threw only an average of 14 , coupled with the catch weight issue is a different scenario entirely. It is impossible to know if Geale would have quit if he was a 100 percent fight night, I very much doubt he would have, because he was feeling weak within himself this past fight this weekend gone is impossible to use as a gauge.

You're right about the discipline issue, Geale clearly was not himself fight night. And Trout has a more solid snapping jab than Geale himself, also one is southpaw and one is orthodox, yet Trout was clearly 100 percent and Geale was not, this has nothing to do with chance but circumstances, Trout was able to train for the fight traditionally and Geale had to prepare himself in a manner demanded by his opponent or in his own words 'their will be no fight' lol. Not the words of a warrior huh.

[bigjavi973]

maybe 168?

[bigjer88]

Whst about a against a guy who was able to maintain a healthy weight amongst his muscle composition in the build up to the fight and during the fight too ?

We'll never know if Cotto could have beaten a 160 Geale as Cotto denied his own fans that privilege. Fighting a guy who usually throws 80 punches a round to facing a guy who threw only an average of 14 , coupled with the catch weight issue is a different scenario entirely. It is impossible to know if Geale would have quit if he was a 100 percent fight night, I very much doubt he would have, because he was feeling weak within himself this past fight this weekend gone is impossible to use as a gauge.

You're right about the discipline issue, Geale clearly was not himself fight night. And Trout has a more solid snapping jab than Geale himself, also one is southpaw and one is orthodox, yet Trout was clearly 100 percent and Geale was not, this has nothing to do with chance but circumstances, Trout was able to train for the fight traditionally and Geale had to prepare himself in a manner demanded by his opponent or in his own words 'their will be no fight' lol. Not the words of a warrior huh.

Well...those are different questions from what I was addressing in my post. Boxing is filled with "we'll never know" scenarios, and I don't think anyone is really bemoaning the fact that "we'll never know" what Cotto would have done with Geale at 160. Sure, I would have preferred for the fight to have taken place at 160 -- among other things, it would have been interesting to see what weight Cotto would have come in at. But I don't feel particularly deprived by the "we'll never know" aspect of the fight.

Regarding the point that Trout was able to train for his traditional weight while Geale had to focus on cutting more weight, sure. Valid point, but I refer you to your signature line. In the aftermath of Saturday night's fight, I think it's also interesting that very few boxers (to my knowledge, at least) have attributed Cotto's victory to Geale's weight issues. For what it's worth, several have credited Cotto with a devastating performance while noting that the impact of cutting weight becomes more evident as a fight goes on...and not necessarily in the first 4 rounds.

As far as the "not the words of a warrior" business...I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that boxing is a brutal sport where warriors often wind up broke and brain-damaged. At a certain point in a figher's career, the warrior spirit should be tempered with business acumen. Anyone who thinks that the world of boxing is comprised of only WARRIORS and COWARDS should go back to watching cartoons. I have no problem with a 34 year-old legend allowing his long-term interests to figure into the equation.