How does Golovkin hit as hard as he does?

[deanrw]

I dont think he is that huge of a puncher. I think he just a good strong puncher with good technique and pounds on dudes till they had enough.

[Scipio2009]

So you saying Garcia hits harder than GGG? If so and you're not being sarcastic you have just taken hating to a whole new level.

I'm saying that Garcia's power at 140 was far more evident than Golovkin's power has ever been at 160.

I've never heard of a monstrous puncher who has never failed to actually one-punch an opponent.

[Scipio2009]

He KO'd Nobuhiro Ishida, who has never been KO'd by anyone, including Paul Wiliams and Pirog.

He KO'd Macklin with a sick body shot


Both took 3 rounds, and both were pretty brutal shots.

Cong****, you found the one fight where Golovkin one-punched anyone since he came of any importance.

one out of 14 fights, right. some power.

[SilverMiles]

I'm saying that Garcia's power at 140 was far more evident than Golovkin's power has ever been at 160.

I've never heard of a monstrous puncher who has never failed to actually one-punch an opponent.

Ishida and Macklin?

Honestly the only fighter Garcia one punches kayoed was Erik Morales and it took him 2 fights to do it against a way past prime fighter.

To be honest Garcia not even a power puncher, he has like 55% KO ratio and his last legit knockout was like 4 years ago.

And no I don't consider Rod Salka a legit opponent.

[_Maxi]

Cong****, you found the one fight where Golovkin one-punched anyone since he came of any importance.

one out of 14 fights, right. some power.

Geale??.... **** up you hatee

[-Kev-]

Mayweather went 27-0 with 21 KO's at SFW. You look at that record and who he knocked out and you would think, wow that's a pretty powerful guy. Then you see Floyd at 135 and already his power is taken a lot better by the bigger guys, at 147 you could pretty much see everyone taking the once powerful Floyd Mayweather's punches pretty well.

In other words, boxers can be pretty powerful when they first start, but as they move up and fight bigger, better guys, you'll see a lot more decisions. GGG is slightly, and just seemingly, more powerful at 160 than Floyd was at 130, but it's the same concept. I say seemingly because Floyd knocked out a top 5 P4P Diego Corrales and a Lineal champion in Hernandez, while GGG doesn't have that type of opposition around him.

[deathofaclown]

To whoever said he doesn't hit hard because you don't see him knocking guys clean out, well a lot of the reason is because he switches up the power of his shots a lot while setting guys up. He doesn't always put everything behind the shots, very rarely actually. Some smart fighters often change how much velocity they're throwing shots with when pressuring a guy in the ring, it keeps the opponent confused and flustered because they don't know what's coming next. Golovkin seems to do this a lot. Also it doesn't give the opponent chance to get familiar with the power, then he will land some heavier shots now and again that they might not see or expect coming and they're the ones that hurt, even if he isn't putting all his power into it. Quite a lot of times in boxing you see fighters start taking hard shots better as the fight goes on, even if the shots hurt them early and it's usually because there's little variation in the power so the fighter can sometimes get used to it.

This is what intelligent pressure fighters like him do. He doesn't need to go in and put everything into every punch. But he can end a fight with one shot too when he sees the opening present itself, as he has done plenty of times.

[Scipio2009]

Ishida and Macklin?

Honestly the only fighter Garcia one punches kayoed was Erik Morales and it took him 2 fights to do it against a way past prime fighter.

To be honest Garcia not even a power puncher, he has like 55% KO ratio and his last legit knockout was like 4 years ago.

And no I don't consider Rod Salka a legit opponent.

Garcia put out Salka, Morales, Khan, and Mike Arnaoutis, all with single shots (Morales and Arnaoutis were likely both shopworn by that point, but neither guy was seen as some chinny fighter set to be flattened by a single shot); the Theophane fight, I'd imagine, could be considered the first step up.

Now look at Golovkin's resume.

[mathed]

[Scipio2009]

Geale??.... **** up you hatee

If you watched the fight, you would've seen Golovkin eat a punch, just before Geale ate a punch and went down, with Geale getting back to his feet, walking enough to have his legs under him, and quitting.

If that's your definition of a one-punch KO, there's no need to continue the conversation.

A monstrous puncher never gave an opponent the option to simply quit on the fight; a monstrous puncher erases an opponent.