I think GGG is past it

[brettWall]

He's past it, but I doubt anyone in his prime dares to trade with him even at this stage.

[Citizen Koba]

Looked the same to me, it's just stepping up in quality meant he got countered a lot and his power wasn't nearly as effective.

This is why you start fighting quality earlier in your career. GGG fought tomato cans most of his career, of course he looked better against them than Jacobs and Canelo.

I'd have to say both. Like it or not time waits for no man and few fighters are as good at 35 as they are at 32... undoubtedly his step up in comp is contributory too though. And yeah. Kinda sucks for Golovkin that Universum fucked half his career.

[Real King Kong]

I've felt this since the wade fight. Him looking flat was chalked up to not being up for the fight against a walkover opponent...but he really hasn't looked sharp in every fight since.

[Big_L]

I think GGG peaked vs Lemeieux.

I had him winning but he didn't look great.

[RussB23]

Doesnt slide on his feet like he used to, it has been declining every fight but I dont think I saw him do it once vs canelo. Doesn't punch off the backfoot like he used to. Basically, difficult time punching with power on the move thus a lot of arm punching and has a difficult time pulling the trigger on openings for a bodyshot. Moves weird now too, in that nelo fight he looked like a senior citizen.

Yes, its the sluggish ass movement lately. Dude just looks flat out old sometimes. A few years back he just seemed so much quicker all around and more fluid with his feet and reflexes in general. hes aged, shame it took this long for an opponent like canelo to step in.

Just watch the curtis stevens fight or even the rosado one. He just looks different even though those guys are gatekeepers.

[RussB23]

I've felt this since the wade fight. Him looking flat was chalked up to not being up for the fight against a walkover opponent...but he really hasn't looked sharp in every fight since.

Thats when i started seeing it too. So i cant really say its just that the competition has gotten better. Wade was a ******** straight bum and i thought GGG looked like **** against him.

[Boxnation fan]

That or he never fought a Jacobs or Canelo before

Or both

You're way too intelligent for this site. Like reading your posts as you always talk sense.

100% Agree.

It's not that GGG was looking old, its that in his last two fights he's finally fighting A or B Level Guys like Canelo and Jacobs and so we've finally seen that against those guys, GGG isn't as great as some people believed him to be.

GGG is one of those guys that looks descructive against Lower Level guys who don't have the Ring Smarts, Technique or Movement to keep him off.

Just look at the list of Guys he's fought in World Title Fights:

Milton Nunez, Nilson Tapia, Kassim Ouma, Lajuan Simon, Makoto Fachigami, Grzegorz Proksa, Nobu Ishida, Matthew Macklin, Curtis Stevens, Osuma Adama, Daniel Geale, Gabriel Rosado, Marco Rubio, Martin Murray, Willie Monroe, David Lemieux, Dominic Wade.

COMPLETE AND UTTER TRASH OPPONENTS! One of the Worst World Title Runs in Boxing History, feasting on C, D, E and F level Opponents.

[Mukuro]

That or he never fought a Jacobs or Canelo before

Or both

I think we have to factor in the quality of his last two opponents, but yeah he just doesn't look fresh to me.

[joseph5620]

He is which is why Canelo finally decided to fight him. But he still beat Canelo clearly in my view. However, Golovkin's decline is going to continue. It's subtle now but will become more obvious from this point on.

[bigdunny1]

Excuses excuses he looked like a monster against ridiculous weak opponents. He now looking exposed and ordinary not becausw of age but because he ain't fight bums. Go back to fighting guys on house arrest he will be back to getting KOs and over at ed by folks like you again. He's always been slow, no head movement or defense. And his power is overated.