Golovkin would be weight-drained at 155 and he wouldn't be the same fighter. He'll have less power, less punch resistance, less mobility, less accuracy... he'll just be a lesser fighter than he is now all around. Look what happened to Dawson when he moved down from 175 to fight light-hitter Ward at 168. He got dropped several times and quit, and was never the same fighter since then. First person Ward had dropped and stopped for years!
Weight-draining does that. Canelo, on the other hand, is now fighting at his optimum weight, and of course he himself fell victim to weight-draining when he was forced to fight Floyd at 152. Against Khan, he's fighting at his ideal weight. Golovkin at 155 is like Dawson at 168, Khan would do to Golovkin what Ward did to Dawson at that weight.
But at 160 it's a whole different story of course.
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