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The myth Golovkin is a small MW
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Originally posted by IronDanHamza View PostPeople used to say Martinez was a small MW aswell.
martinez was a small middleweight. 158 and change in his last fight, and he could hardly spar or run to lose weight.
153.25 in his last fight at 154 against cintron. was 157 and change more than once while he was a champion. was a welterweight for close to 5 years to start off his career, and a JMW for 5+ years after that.
i've seen martinez in person with clothes, and i've seen him fight live. he's a small middleweight. not a baby sized one, but you need to be a small fighter for hte weight to get several lbs below the division limit, and he could.
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I do nt know ifhes big or small. He just do t look very big, not very muscular and in fazce off with brook they look the same size
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Originally posted by Paulie Walnuts View PostSize is determined by weight in boxing not height, i listed lots of MW's why single out Lee?
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Originally posted by Paulie Walnuts View PostPeople keep saying he's a small MW which is untrue. As most of us know Golovkin weighs around 170/171. I'm going to post fight night weights of other MW's below to show you he isn't small at all.
Martinez - 165, 168
Proksa - 166
Zbik - 165
Taylor - 166, 169, 171
Lee - 167.5
Pavlik - 168, 171
Hopkins - 166, 168, 169
Wright - 168
Barker - 168
Jacobs - 170
Pirog - 170
Quillin - 170
Macklin - 172
Monroe - 172
Miranda - 173
Korobov - 173, 174
As you can see Golovkin isn't a small MW at all, so can we stop the nonsense.
All weights taken from this very helpful site.
http://basementgymboxing.blogspot.co...s-list-of.html
http://basementgymboxing.blogspot.co...ration_22.html
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He's only a small mw when they talk about him moving up.... or like now when hes fighting brook smh
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Originally posted by New England View Postmartinez was a small middleweight. 158 and change in his last fight, and he could hardly spar or run to lose weight.
153.25 in his last fight at 154 against cintron. was 157 and change more than once while he was a champion. was a welterweight for close to 5 years to start off his career, and a JMW for 5+ years after that.
i've seen martinez in person with clothes, and i've seen him fight live. he's a small middleweight. not a baby sized one, but you need to be a small fighter for hte weight to get several lbs below the division limit, and he could.
Just don't see how a guy can be small for a weight when they consistently come to the ring 10 lbs above the weight limit.
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Originally posted by IronDanHamza View PostI've seen Martinez in person aswell.
Just don't see how a guy can be small for a weight when they consistently come to the ring 10 lbs above the weight limit.
fighters can walk onto "unofficial" scales with their clothes and shoes on. easily 5 lbs if you're wearing boots, jeans, your wallet, etc. they're also being weighed by the networks typically. only one of the sanctioning bodies [IIRC,] and specific contracts that stipulate it, call for a same day weigh in to be "official" like a rehydration clause. then they strip down and use a legit scale that's been calibrated. otherwise it's just for Tv, and according to the fighters they're often on crap scales and often wearing clothes.
if the guy is cutting that much water weight and rehydrating 10 full lbs he's not going to drop several lbs below the limit. he might be a half pound under to be safe, but martinez was 2-3 lbs below the limit regularly, something most middleweights won't do comfortably, or can't do at all.
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