Comments Thread For: Saunders: Aging Golovkin Has Slowed Down Due to "Drug Tests"

[Big_L]

I thought GGG's body looked different vs. Jacobs. He looked soft. Maybe age. Maybe not in the best of shape. Maybe something else. IDK. Wasn't the same looking GGG.

[Larry the boss]

lol.........

[Beercules]

Cant trust these Stiff Euros dude.

[turnedup]

Hope he gets slapped with the mother of all lawsuits for saying this bullshhh. Mofo's know full well once they even insinuate that the dumb mofo's who casual the fan or hate the guy are going to jump on the roid train. People talking about his body looked different, his gut this...go back and look at the pictures of the guy his body has always been the exact same as a pro.

[TonyGe]

You ain't making friends around here by telling the truth.

And why is that???

[Boxing Goat]

The reason he hasn't looked amazing could be that he's stopped juicing because he started testing. I think his opponents were just more skilled than anyone else he fought and he was never as good as some people wanted others to believe.

And still......undefeated

[TonyGe]

He delayed the testing until less than month before Lemieux and Wade. He was in the clean boxing program for the Brook and Jacobs fights.

Brook Golovkin and Lemieux were tested but not Jacobs. I'm assuming Golovkin will be tested for the Canelo fight. Canelo is he being tested also?

[icha]

Brook Golovkin and Lemieux were tested but not Jacobs. I'm assuming Golovkin will be tested for the Canelo fight. Canelo is he being tested also?

it will be really dumb if gggs team didnt include same testing for both fighters as part of the deal-contract...
canelo was just tested by vada for his chavez fight, dont see a problem for him doing it again...

[Boxing Logic]

The reason he hasn't looked amazing could be that he's stopped juicing because he started testing. I think his opponents were just more skilled than anyone else he fought and he was never as good as some people wanted others to believe.

As a GGG fan myself, we will honestly never know if it's testing, age, opponents, etc or what, if he was just overrated as you said. I really don't think the guy who demolished Prokska and Macklin was overrated, because that dude was faster and had boundless energy, but he definitely hasn't looked as good his last two fights. Then again, Brook and Jacobs are both skilled, well rounded, top fighters with a lot of speed in both cases and speed and length in Jacobs case, and GGG is 35 years old. I really do think slight aging + difficult opponents have combined to produce the last two performances. Plus, GGG may be getting bored of camps.

But, it's possible he was juicing just like most fighters probably are. Hell, Kovalev has gassed halfway through seemingly every fight since meldonium became illegal and VADA did his fights, I think. Ward obviously hasn't looked great under VADA fights either. Lomachenko and Crawford are the only one who have actually become more spectacular the last couple years, not less, and guess what they're the only ones in the top group not taking VADA yet.

But of course, they're also the only ones who are in their prime years, so of course they would get better, right? So you can really never know and that's another thing that sucks about this sport.

[TonyGe]

The WBC clean boxing program is a good start.