Comments Thread For: Gassiev: Golovkin Should Target Saunders Instead of Rematch

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IBF cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev would like to see his stablemate - IBF, WBC, IBO, WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) - forget about a rematch with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs). Gassiev and Golovkin are both trained by Abel Sanchez at The Summit Gym ib Big Bear, California.
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[BrometheusBob.]

Yeah, Saunders who looked like ass against two wack opponents in a row would be so much more entertaining than a Canelo rematch




Bruh

[Vlad_]

Indeed GGG should go unify his belts and take it easy a bit. He already walked straight through Canelo's best shots. He could use a break.

[triplohe]

No desire for a rematch. The diva side already waited enough and G is old now. Just let him decapitate Saunders and Charlo and retire into the sunset.

[Mammoth]

If anybody deserves a rematch it's Jacobs. Canelo can go struggle with Lemieux or something....

[BoxingFan85]

Yeah, Saunders who looked like ass against two wack opponents in a row would be so much more entertaining than a Canelo rematch




Bruh

Not sure if you are trolling but Saunders is going to smoke Golovkin and Canelo on the same night...

[Travycat]

It sounds like they're going to try to age him out another year to 36 (didn't work the first time) and try not to make the rematch until September with rumors flying Canelo will fight someone else next May. I was looking forward to these two great fighters having a scrap--and it was good, but it appeared to be a pretty decisive victory for GGG. If the talk out of Vegas is true, and Golden Boy paid Byrd (and now saying potentially one other judge) off, then I will lose all respect for Oscar. Probably never know for sure. I didn't believe Canelo in the post fight presser when he said he thought he won. You could just see it on his face. And then you saw it on his face at the ***el pics at his post fight club party. Atlas was right, this sport is becoming so controllable, so corrupt, that no one wants to be a fan of this sport that we all on this message board love so much. With Canelo not being able to hurt Gennady and being stalked down the entire fight and tiring out a lot, I think it's like Ward/Kovalev 2 and GGG wins it even easier. I don't have much interest in seeing a rematch. I imagine Canelo drops back to 155 where he has more power and GGG continues on with Saunders and the likes at that weight. That fix of a fight has no one interested in chancing all of that goodness to bull**** again. Hats off to both guys, though.

[BrometheusBob.]

Not sure if you are trolling but Saunders is going to smoke Golovkin and Canelo on the same night...

Billy Joel Saunders is a ****in beast fam

Guy just called out Amir Khan because that's how killers like him roll

[Boxing Logic]

Yeah, Saunders who looked like ass against two wack opponents in a row would be so much more entertaining than a Canelo rematch




Bruh

Saunders beat Eubank who Breadman picked to win the 168 tournament. He knocked down Lee twice, more than Quillin did. With as old and slow as GGG is looking these days, I wouldn't be surprised if Saunders gives him at least as much trouble as Jacobs early. GGG's saving grace will be once again walking through shots and out-powering Saunders eventually, is my guess, because Saunders doesn't have Jacobs power, but he does have underrated power, and in some ways more skill than Jacobs, though not the hand speed.

As for Saunders awful performances... yes, because he got fat! This is like everyone saying Lemieux is a bum because he got stopped 6 years ago. If it was for no discernible reason, then yes you can say that! But if you find out it's a specific reason that has since been corrected, then why get hung up on that? Lemieux had very, very clear training issues, and stamina issues, early in his career. If you think Canelo's stamina, hell even Mcgregor's stamina, is bad, you haven't seen Lemieux early in his career. But, since then he's fixed that, and now he has arguably better stamina than Canelo. So when GGG fought Lemieux, it was a totally different Lemieux than the one who had gotten stopped earlier in his career.

The same concept applies to Saunders. If Saunders looked bad recently because he ******, or if it was because he was fat but he was still fat, then yeah, forget that fight, but since he only ****** because he got fat, and now he's corrected that and in fact gotten in the best shape of his career and looked very sharp against Willie Monroe in his last fight, it's a much better fight.

As a stay busy fight for GGG, fighting someone who beat Eubank Jr. and Andy Lee, and is back at peak at the same time GGG is slipping, and also happens to have the last belt at 160, is about 100x better than any other current boxer's stay busy fights. Crawford's stay busy fight was John Molina. Ward's was Alexander Brand. Lomachenko's was Marriaga. Canelo's stay-busy-slash-duck-GGG-fight was Liam Smith. Should I go on? Saunders is better than you think, and GGG has gone from having underrated, snappy shots to possibly the slowest, least snappy punches in all of main event level boxing.

[DblLFThooK]

Hypothetically lets say canelo fights Lemieux and loses. What conclusions will made from that result?