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Tom Loeffler - "You Will Be Pleasantly Surprised with Golovkin's Next Fight"
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it's going to be david lemieux.
lemiuex isn't a horrible choice, in spite of his losses to rubio [via knockout,] and alcine [via "i look like i want to quit boxing."]
wins over rosado and ndam rejuvied his career some. he does have talent. you don't teach people how to punch hard. lemieux might hit harder than golovkin does.
while he's now world beater, and lemieux will provide golovkin a hard punching oppontn. detractors who say "what happens when he fights a puncher" will have to take notice. i thought curtis stevens was a solid puncher, but he doesn't hit like lemieux by any stretch, and is really more of a one handed fighter anyway.
you can't get on golovkin too mcuhf or martinez avoiding him. cotto and alvarez used cotto's status as current champion to avoid him as well.
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Originally posted by NEETzsche View Postdid you literally only read the first sentence of my post? he was willing to take that risk for them because they brought money to the table. plus he could probably beat them without actually becoming a full super middleweight (i.e. he could just cut less weight rather than gaining muscle). to beat andre ward he would probably have to fully acclimatise to the weight (i.e. gain muscle), which would make it impossible to come back down to 160 lbs and finish his business there. he offered the catchweight i suppose because it's easier to gain and subsequently lose 4 lbs of muscle than it is 8 lbs, so if ward wanted the fight before golovkin was ready to move up, then compromises would have to be made
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Originally posted by b00g13man View PostMy bad. I completely missed that somehow. Still, that goes to show he cares more about the money than the glory though, not that there's anything wrong with that. I'd just rather not hear the "Ward is ducking" comments in that case.
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I wouldn't be happy with Lara yet if it went some way to exposing Haymon fighters to HBO I'd be happy with it, it won't happen though.
Lemieux vs Canelo is a much more appealing fight, in fact the entire division (top 15) excluding GGG versus each other is exciting, GGG should move up if he wants to be respected for taking challenging fights.
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