Comments Thread For: Hopkins: GGG-Lemieux Could Be Longer Hagler-Hearns

[tiliheels]

I doubt it's a Hagler-Hearns type of a fight. GGG will pressure Lemieux and force him to try to pot shot from outside. Lemieux won't land near as often as Hagler and Hearns did on each other. Golovkin's defense will prove slicker than some expect. He doesn't need to focus much on defense normally, but with a puncher like Lemieux he will. But Lemieux is mostly a one handed fighter and GGG will take away his left hook.

here we go with this again..take this into acount david has not jab ggg does..david is not effect counter or ptting form the outside like u said..so if he doesnt hit ggg its bc he's not effective hitting anyone from that posistion..his defense is regular to below avearge at best..
understand **** dont flush until it hits the water...and this aint a "**** hitting the water" type of fight..its is a mismatch between a with no identity puncher (david) and a pressure fighter with huge power/jab

[JohnnyRebel]

Bhop probably laughed when HBO gave him this to read.

I bet he did too. Hopkins has his promoter hat on for sure lol. This fight being on PPV though... smh. I wouldn't pay $1 to watch it on PPV to be completely honest. I'm still hoping that another card gets put on that date like a PBC card to piss off fishnets, GGG's team, and the fanboys.

[boxingitis]

You can watch PBC mismatch for free.

[St. Johns Gent]

Lemieux??? that guy that doesn't move his head??? that guy who's gonna be target practice all night for GGG??? Lemieux is as basic as they come with some pop on them fists, talk about 'selling smokes and mirrors'

[Basco]

Lemieux gets hit too much and his chin won't hold up. If he doesn't catch GGG in the first round with something big that gets GGG's attention, he wont last 4 rounds!

[UNBIASED BOXING]

Well.. at least it's better than Kellerman's comparisons of the current middleweight division to that of the 80s and his likening of Canelo/GGG to Hagler/Hearns.

Canelo vs GGG would be World War 3.

[TLC8]

Hype It All U Want; GGG Will Tee Him Up & Knock Him Cold

It will appear to be a war, look that way on paper. We're reminded Rubio beat Lemieux. Within 2 founds GGG will land a crunching bomb on this sitting duck, and the Garden will erupt; Game Over. No different than any other fight. Then we wait for Canelo to beatdown Cotto, while waiting to see if Ward has a set big enough to meet GGG at 164 which is being discussed.

[bigdunny1]

David is only 26 and fought Rubio early in his career when he was too inexperienced. Like 4 years ago which is a lifetime ago for a young fighter like him. He gets better with every fight. Has not peaked yet and is way better now then he was when he fought Rubio. All that doesn't mean he will beat GGG. But people bring up his loses and leave out how early his career when he was rushed too fast as kid and ignore the fact that he has been steam rolling good competition since. Hard concept but Fighters tend to improve with age and experience.

He is exactly the same age as Thurman yet when he fought Rubio Thurman was super protected fighting no named bums. The perception between these two fighters is only different now because one was handled with kid gloves his entire career.

[sacraman]

Funny how a gassed out loss at 22 blinds people. Lemieux can punch a guy to convulsion. He certainly has a crack against GGG.

[wlliam]

I see GGG taking out Lemieux while hes attempting to exchange...particularly a left hook, a check left hook would be smart for a guy with Lemieuxs power,

What i like about Lemieux is his combination selection has improved, if the guy had a better jab he would he unbeatable imo..imagine that,a jab with that power would be even more impressive. GGG is just too refined and polished for DL