Has Golovkin been sandbagging recently?

[Joe Beamish]

He's starting to get older. Still a bad dude though, and a smart fighter who approaches opponents differently as required.

[Kigali]

He 5'9" doe

In a pair of Oscar's pumps

[Buckfever]

"If you mean he ment to struggle with Jacobs youre outa your mind, this is not a game of checkers."

My initial impression was that Jacobs fought a good strategic fight using his size and movement to take away Golovkin's effectiveness.

But then I hear the lies that Golovkin was ****** up and that's why the Saunders delay, that Golovkin stated that he wouldn't be attending the Canelo chavez bout and then that ****** statement of how his last fights he hasn't been doing that great and it all starts sounding like a big promotional angle.

I do think that maybe that performance was more consistent with the idea of taking just a little bit off, to create more intrigue. I remember during the fight with Jacobs, Sanchez told him to touch him a little more, just to be sure about the score cards.

I'm probably just putting things together that are not related, but it's for damned sure that they had worked this out before talking to Saunders, this was already worked out, so some degree of this being orchestrated is legit. From the promotion end of it.

[Buckfever]

'sandbagging' sounds like a word used to describe having sex with Arab women.

Not to quibble but I think the term is "sand****ing". But it's all good.

[Buckfever]

I guess I'm the only conspiracy theorist here. What if they had come to terms in principle prior to the Jacobs fight?

[jmrf4435]

you know what's crazy? Golovkin said before the brook fight, "I don't want to box. I just want to fight. street fight."

he goes in there and blew Brook out. right after the fight he said, "Did you like that street fight?"



Right before he fought Jacobs he said, "no fight. Just box. Just box."


He went in there and just outboxed Jacobs without getting touched up at all. completely unmarked against a far more offensive fighter in Jacobs vs Brook.



He legit said what he was going to do and did it.


He definitely had intentions to look a certain way in those fights.

I agree. And people think that it's nuts to have this theory. He also kept saying "I'm not killer, i'm boxer" telling fans he's not just in there to put people into comas/ko.

As far as appearing to slip up to appease the Canelo camp?? VERY possible. People need to realize how hard it was for GGG to get guys in the ring with him at 160...

[j0zef]

I definitely think he didn't take Brook seriously after the first couple of minutes, but there's no way he 'threw' the Jacobs fight. It was too close, and if the decision went against him, his career would pretty much be finished. Sadly enough, it's true no matter when he loses. His reputation and name are built on such an image of invincibility, and he's so old, that when he loses (that's a WHEN not an IF), he wont have the time to recover from it.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Dude wasn't sandbagging versus Jacobs he genuinely struggled, it's all good though he got the W. Monroe and Jacobs have set the blueprint ain't nothing to do with GGG easing off they're stylistically difficult fights, if GGG haters and Cameltoe fan boys are drawing positives from those fights they're idiots, Caneltoe fights nothing like either of those two.

Against Brooke clearly GGG neglected to box and simply just ****, getting himself punched a few times which clearly never deterred him.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

you know what's crazy? Golovkin said before the brook fight, "I don't want to box. I just want to fight. street fight."

he goes in there and blew Brook out. right after the fight he said, "Did you like that street fight?"



Right before he fought Jacobs he said, "no fight. Just box. Just box."


He went in there and just outboxed Jacobs without getting touched up at all. completely unmarked against a far more offensive fighter in Jacobs vs Brook.



He legit said what he was going to do and did it.


He definitely had intentions to look a certain way in those fights.

It seems like in the fights no one cares about like Rubio and Wade, he just crushes them.

In other fights, he fights a certain way to get a certain result.

This is the guy who was avoided for a while. I guess he knows he has to look vulnerable to an extent.

I also know that plenty of posters on here will say this is BS and that every fighter would win at any cost and never pull back at all. At least, when it comes to Golovkin.

I've read other posters talk about Crawford holding back on Postol because he had twin baby boys and another talked about Ezzard Charles holding back on Marciano to the point of losing. So, if you can believe one side, I'd say you have to give the other a chance.

I mean, Brook hit him plenty in their fight, but still, GGG walked through him regardless. He didn't get hit much at all in the Jacobs fight and he didn't try to crush the former cancer patient either and I think we could understand that. It's a very good setup for a Canelo showdown.

We have to remember that Cotto, Martinez, Sturm and others wanted no part of him a few years ago. And Canelo's GBP wanted the fight to marinate. Maybe he's doing what he needs to do. Morales sure put it all on the line in the final round of his first fight with Pacquiao. This kind of thing is not unheard of.

[ghost94]

I think he wanted to win a decision over Jacobs to test himself and see if he can win in more ways than one and become a more well-rounded fighter because of an inevitable fight with Canelo but it turned out to be a bit more difficult than expected. There also could have been the possibility he wanted a "big drama show" and was waiting for the bombs to fly and Jacobs to stop boxing and both of them start brawling in later rounds, but GGG would have been happy with either outcome, getting the decision or the dramatic brawl. I still had him winning that fight, nonetheless.