Comments Thread For: Photos: Canelo, Golovkin - Go Face To Face in New York City!

[umop-ap!sdn]

Canelo is wide and thick as hell. In that sense, he's a big dude. He's built the way he's built.

Plus we don't know what kind of shoes the two fighters are wearing in these suit pictures, do we?

Canelo would have to put on a pair of Oscars Stilettos to be as tall as GGG. So unless Golovkin is wearing heels platforms or clogs or something than its safe to say GGG is the taller man

[Tobi.G]

I would say let compare them physically after they finished training camp and stand in the ring. Im sure there gonna be a verry small size difference if any. Yes canelo is shorter but he has a short, stocky physique, i dont think hes physically smaller than GGG.

[JK Boxing]

I agree that marinating didn't do good for this fight. 1 or 2 years ago I was more excited for this fight, but still I'm definitely interested and definitely will watch.

[Tobi.G]

I agree that marinating didn't do good for this fight. 1 or 2 years ago I was more excited for this fight, but still I'm definitely interested and definitely will watch.

Well it could have happened earlier but its not to late. Its not like Mayweather vs. Pacman, both were past their prime when they fought especially Pac.

[Slowhand]

Canelo looks so small next to Golovkin, same way Ward looked like a midget against Kovalev. Where's the hype for this fight? I didn't even see much hype prior to the announcement of Floyd's fight.

I'd describe myself as a hardcore, but I'm not sure how much I care about this one.

I just have to ask you Mr Hardcore: how exactly did 6ft 185ish Ward look like a midget against 6ft 190ish Kovalev?

[Butch.McRae]

All of this talk about Canelo being thick or bigger than GGG is rubish. He's 5'8 (might be 5'7 b/c he looked shorter than FMjr in their fight) and noticeably smaller than Golovkin. He's not that "thick". That's a bunch of bull****.

I said it before and I'll say it again. He's going to come out looking swift and sharp throwing shots early. Buy he'll slow up and GGG will be stalking. Eventually Canelo will get cornered and stopped. He's not powerful enough, doesn't have the reach/height advantage to win this fight imo. Plus he's not slick enough to stay away from GGG. GGG is just too strong for him. Canelo took an old Cotto to a decision. Think about that.

[aboutfkntime]

All of this talk about Canelo being thick or bigger than GGG is rubish. He's 5'8 (might be 5'7 b/c he looked shorter than FMjr in their fight) and noticeably smaller than Golovkin. He's not that "thick". That's a bunch of bull****.

I said it before and I'll say it again. He's going to come out looking swift and sharp throwing shots early. Buy he'll slow up and GGG will be stalking. Eventually Canelo will get cornered and stopped. He's not powerful enough, doesn't have the reach/height advantage to win this fight imo. Plus he's not slick enough to stay away from GGG. GGG is just too strong for him. Canelo took an old Cotto to a decision. Think about that.

1) Cotto is a superb world-class boxer
2) Canelo wasn't trying to knock him out..... nor will he try to knock Golovkin out..... but he will lite him up like a christmas tree, and clock up a lot of early rounds in the process with those eye-catching combo's

I think Golovkin likely HAS to stop him to win

this will likely come down to how strong Golovkin feels down the stretch, and how much Canelo has him figured out..... Canelo is gonna be touching Golovkin to the body with bad intentions, and GGG is not known as a 12-round fighter..... Canelo's conditioning will also come into question as will his gameplan, he doesn't want to absorb Golovkin's punches all night

[Butch.McRae]

1) Cotto is a superb world-class boxer
2) Canelo wasn't trying to knock him out..... nor will he try to knock Golovkin out..... but he will lite him up like a christmas tree, and clock up a lot of early rounds in the process with those eye-catching combo's

I think Golovkin likely HAS to stop him to win

this will likely come down to how strong Golovkin feels down the stretch, and how much Canelo has him figured out..... Canelo is gonna be touching Golovkin to the body with bad intentions, and GGG is not known as a 12-round fighter..... Canelo's conditioning will also come into question as will his gameplan, he doesn't want to absorb Golovkin's punches all night

I definitely think Canelo will be touching him up early, but I don't think he's slick and fast enough to do it for more than a few rounds untill GGG catches up to him. He needs to be very evasive in this fight (damn near Lara level). Although he's slicker than most give him credit for, he's not nearly good enough at it to make this guy miss for 12 rounds. He doesn't have the physical advantages of height and reach to stay outside the whole fight like Jacobs. He's going to mix it up and when he does, I think he'll get caught up in some damaging exchanges.

[bigdunny1]

Canelo has always been the much smaller man only idiot GGG fanboys made the argument that he was bigger then GGG. It looks more exaggerated because Canelo is still in fight shape and GGG is very heavy let himself go after the Jacobs fight. Just look at how tubby he came in for the Canelo promo pics that came out a few weeks ago and gut he was sporting. GGG is the heaviest I've ever seen him in between fights and hasn't started training camp yet with the fight still 3 months away. When GGG cuts weight and shows up on fight night the size difference will be a little less just like Canelo/Chavez. When they went on press tour Canelo looked like a midget compared to Chavez. Then Chavez made weight and the difference wasn't as big Canelo was just shorter.

Press tour months before training camp


After Training camp day before the fight

[bigdunny1]

All of this talk about Canelo being thick or bigger than GGG is rubish. He's 5'8 (might be 5'7 b/c he looked shorter than FMjr in their fight) and noticeably smaller than Golovkin. He's not that "thick". That's a bunch of bull****.

I said it before and I'll say it again. He's going to come out looking swift and sharp throwing shots early. Buy he'll slow up and GGG will be stalking. Eventually Canelo will get cornered and stopped. He's not powerful enough, doesn't have the reach/height advantage to win this fight imo. Plus he's not slick enough to stay away from GGG. GGG is just too strong for him. Canelo took an old Cotto to a decision. Think about that.

Lord idiots keep bringing up reach. There is NO REACH advantage. lol GGG is taller but reach of both fighters is virtually identical and canelo has faced tons of fighters with longer reach then GGG. Reach is literally not a factor.

Canelo 70.5"
GGG 70"
Chavez 73"
Khan 71"
Lara 74"
Floyd 72"
Trout 72"
Cintron 74"