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I'll be one of the only open ones to admit that Canelo surprised me, he is more of a fighter than I have given him credit for. I did credit him with beating Lara at the time but post that his choices in opponents killed my support for him.
With that said...
Admins: Y'all need to do a better job! You have people with several accounts on here switching names every few minutes to agree with themselves. Its glaringly obvious from the writing styles they reply to themselves with the same mispellings, the same punctuation issues, and overall the same exact insults. I would happily pay for a developer to help you guys isolate these accounts and rid us of this nonsense so we can get back to actual boxing discussion without the trolling.
Trolls: You cannot change the narrative of what transpires in a fight no matter how hard you try to agree with your original post.
Fighters:
Golovkin:Golovkin has aged, his reflexive timing is clearly showing signs of degradation. He's close to the end. He should consider fighting Saunders and calling it a career. I love the guy but he should've gone more to the body, I think he could've gotten a stoppage had he put in the work to the body early. Canelo clearly ran out of gas during the middle rounds before getting his second wind and had there been body work put in early it would've been his undoing. Golovkin is definitely not the fighter he was two years ago and some of it can be attributed to the competition before him but the reality is he's 35 and was never fast and slippery which does not bode well for a fighter with his style. He is not a hypejob, he is not an ATG middleweight but he would've been a force of nature at his peak in any era at the weight for anyone.
Canelo: Showed impressive whiskers but his stamina is absolutely horrendous. I was most surprised at his improvement with the jab and his lateral movement when on the ropes to stem off the attack. He needs to work on covering his body more though when on the ropes. Had Golovkin not tried to set traps to the head and instead used his left hook to the body the kid could've found himself in serious trouble. I was also impressed at times when he popped off the movement, it wasn't constant which would've served him well but he did do a bit of running at times to keep his opponent off him. To say he didn't flat out run at times is false and I respect it because he was clearly huffing for breath, had he not he was ripe for the taking and it bought him the time to catch his breath but he's got to learn to fight off that movement, too many lulls in action on his part where he gave away rounds. Instead of focusing on power he should learn to use his hand speed in those equations to buy himself the time he needs.
Judges: I didn't see a draw personally even though it was a close fight, the crowd in Vegas with me didn't see a draw but a draw is what we got. Bennett needs to ease up from being so defensive when asked about judges because something is clearly wrong when a fight that's close gets scored so lopsided and a critique to Oscar and company, when your fighter is the A-side (according to boxing fckery around here) and he gets a scorecard in his favor like this vs Mayweather, then vs Lara (another close fight) and now against the standing champion of a division the finger is going to get pointed at you and it's going to kill the love of some for your fighter and makes other fighters not want to fight on your terms. The boxing judge system needs a complete overhaul. Promoters and fighters should never have contact with judges and refs, they should not share the same events, should not attend the same events and should be banned for life for such egregious scoring from the first fk up they have. These guys are putting their lives on the line with every punch they absorb only to have someone who wants to keep getting approved by the promoters they side with by giving them favorable scores. 118-110 is an embarrassment to the sport and to both of these fighters, more so the champion in this equation.
Fight: It was a great fight but not the great war that was promised and that's fine. These were two great fighters with everything on the line. I personally don't need a rematch, especially 8 months from now. Either make it in January or not at all, my opinion still stands on who won and I think unifying the division right now is a more interesting moment than seeing these two fight again. I wanted the winner to take the strap from BJS and that's still where I stand on the topic regardless of who won. The ref managed the fight very well and I am happy with that, we didn't have any head clashes that altered the fight.
With that said...
Admins: Y'all need to do a better job! You have people with several accounts on here switching names every few minutes to agree with themselves. Its glaringly obvious from the writing styles they reply to themselves with the same mispellings, the same punctuation issues, and overall the same exact insults. I would happily pay for a developer to help you guys isolate these accounts and rid us of this nonsense so we can get back to actual boxing discussion without the trolling.
Trolls: You cannot change the narrative of what transpires in a fight no matter how hard you try to agree with your original post.
Fighters:
Golovkin:Golovkin has aged, his reflexive timing is clearly showing signs of degradation. He's close to the end. He should consider fighting Saunders and calling it a career. I love the guy but he should've gone more to the body, I think he could've gotten a stoppage had he put in the work to the body early. Canelo clearly ran out of gas during the middle rounds before getting his second wind and had there been body work put in early it would've been his undoing. Golovkin is definitely not the fighter he was two years ago and some of it can be attributed to the competition before him but the reality is he's 35 and was never fast and slippery which does not bode well for a fighter with his style. He is not a hypejob, he is not an ATG middleweight but he would've been a force of nature at his peak in any era at the weight for anyone.
Canelo: Showed impressive whiskers but his stamina is absolutely horrendous. I was most surprised at his improvement with the jab and his lateral movement when on the ropes to stem off the attack. He needs to work on covering his body more though when on the ropes. Had Golovkin not tried to set traps to the head and instead used his left hook to the body the kid could've found himself in serious trouble. I was also impressed at times when he popped off the movement, it wasn't constant which would've served him well but he did do a bit of running at times to keep his opponent off him. To say he didn't flat out run at times is false and I respect it because he was clearly huffing for breath, had he not he was ripe for the taking and it bought him the time to catch his breath but he's got to learn to fight off that movement, too many lulls in action on his part where he gave away rounds. Instead of focusing on power he should learn to use his hand speed in those equations to buy himself the time he needs.
Judges: I didn't see a draw personally even though it was a close fight, the crowd in Vegas with me didn't see a draw but a draw is what we got. Bennett needs to ease up from being so defensive when asked about judges because something is clearly wrong when a fight that's close gets scored so lopsided and a critique to Oscar and company, when your fighter is the A-side (according to boxing fckery around here) and he gets a scorecard in his favor like this vs Mayweather, then vs Lara (another close fight) and now against the standing champion of a division the finger is going to get pointed at you and it's going to kill the love of some for your fighter and makes other fighters not want to fight on your terms. The boxing judge system needs a complete overhaul. Promoters and fighters should never have contact with judges and refs, they should not share the same events, should not attend the same events and should be banned for life for such egregious scoring from the first fk up they have. These guys are putting their lives on the line with every punch they absorb only to have someone who wants to keep getting approved by the promoters they side with by giving them favorable scores. 118-110 is an embarrassment to the sport and to both of these fighters, more so the champion in this equation.
Fight: It was a great fight but not the great war that was promised and that's fine. These were two great fighters with everything on the line. I personally don't need a rematch, especially 8 months from now. Either make it in January or not at all, my opinion still stands on who won and I think unifying the division right now is a more interesting moment than seeing these two fight again. I wanted the winner to take the strap from BJS and that's still where I stand on the topic regardless of who won. The ref managed the fight very well and I am happy with that, we didn't have any head clashes that altered the fight.
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