How come canelo is seen to have the 'skill' advantage?

[icha]

Find it bizarre how the fight narrative is being played out, canelo the one with the skills, GGG going to have to rely on his power. Based on what exactly?

As far as i was aware golovkin was world amateur champ and olympic silver medalist, which suggests,surprisingly, that he may possess some solid boxing fundamentals.

Golovkin had some trouble with jacobs, sure. He lost a few rounds. It was a close, competitive fight. Arguably the only competitive fight hes had in his whole career.

But roll the clock back and i dont think canelo looked too skillfull when he fought lara. So why doesnt that fight seem to get mentioned as much? At a lower weight in fact. The average media score for that was 114-114.

So whys that been forgotten about?

And aside from that, he didnt demonstrate too much boxing IQ against mayweather and the trout fight was a very close fight too. Why have they been forgotten about?

Trout outlanded him by 154 punches to 124. Al bernstein had it a draw.

But yeah, golovkin had some problems against jacobs so thats all forgotten about, canelos the boxer in the match up! Hes arguably been outboxed 3 times but hes the one with the skills in this one.

I mean youve got to factor in standard of opposition, canelo looked great against chavez and liam smith but christ almighty, golovkin could look like pernell whittaker against them two. Just watch his sparring video against chavez.

Just strange how in the space of the year beating some appalling opposition has somehow morphed the previously clear underdog canelo into canelo v2.0, the skillful elusive master boxer canelo. Hes still the same guy, if he'd have fought khan, shot cotto, chavez and liam smith PRE-mayweather, he'd have got the job done.

To be honest i didnt think he looked too sharp in them early rounds against khan, but again the brook fight gets mentioned over and over again but the khan canelo fight doesnt.

Canelo is a solid fighter, maybe i will eat my words (it wont be the first time) but i dont know how this has warped into some size v skill match up. He'll land some good combos but he will get systematically broken down and outboxed by an intelligent pressure fighter who will use his power as an asset alongside a smart calculated gameplan.

if you been following ggg you will know that ggg amateur was a different animal than the ggg pro, you can thank abel for that, after years of "mexican style" i dont think he is going back to the olympic style in this fight.. he is very skilled even as a pro , but his defense has suffered a lot with abel... we should see next saturday...

[j0zef]

This is a great thread. Anyone who's saying that one guy is significantly more skillful than the other is just hating on the fighter. They're both tremendously skilled in very different ways.

Golovkin has better feet, Canelo has faster hands. Golovkin has flashy offense and underrated defense. Canelo has flashy defense and underrated offense (especially against an offensive fighter). Canelo has combos, Golovkin has punch selection.

[just the facts]

the truth is Lemiuex, Murray and Jacobs would beat the dog chit out of trout, kirkland, lara and Cotto.

Jacobs probably but LeMew and Murray? HELL NO!

[just the facts]

This is a great thread. Anyone who's saying that one guy is significantly more skillful than the other is just hating on the fighter. They're both tremendously skilled in very different ways.

Golovkin has better feet, Canelo has faster hands. Golovkin has flashy offense and underrated defense. Canelo has flashy defense and underrated offense (especially against an offensive fighter). Canelo has combos, Golovkin has punch selection.

Good, fair assessment of this matchup.