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

[j.razor]

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

lemieux is wack. That's two losses for lil g in a row now so feed him to the wolves & let Jermall finish the rest of lil g.

[j.razor]

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.

You can't win fights blocking punches with your face & body. You lil g fans are on some other s**t....

[j.razor]

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.

Cut the novels out.....lil g got two losses in a row now & his fans don't want a nelo rematch let alone a Jacobs rematch.....just feed this fake to the wolves already! Jermall Charlo is licking his chops!

[j.razor]

GGG is done. I doubt he'll ever be the same after these 2 wars with Jacobs & Canelo

That's what happens when you fight two good fighters in a row for the first time of your career......

[yankees7448]

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

GGG deserves a rematch with Canelo for more than Jacobs deserves a rematch with GGG. If Jacobs had connected on GGG like Canelo did he would have won the fight. But as it is he was inactive, backing up the entire night and got dropped. I would like to see a rematch but lets not pretend that Jacobs is owed anything.

[The Big Dunn]

That's what happens when you fight two good fighters in a row for the first time of your career......

Exactly. When your 2 most recent fights are against the best in the division its not going to be the same as when you fight Gaele and Macklin. The scores are going to be close because the

[j.razor]

It just depends on whether GGG really cares about his legacy or does he want to chase the money! Golden Boy will only do the rematch if everything is in their favor! I would prefer to see GGG collect all the belts but I wouldn't blame him for chasing the money. Before the fight, many people claimed GGG needed Canelo but I don't think he needs Canelo anymore.

Usually when the money is involved so is the competition which includes the legacy. Face it he lost two fights in a row now. It's time to finish what's left of this fake & let Jermall get him.

[yankees7448]

Robbed Jacobs and Canelo you mean.

Oh **** off. Jacobs lost that fight. Get over it. He threw fewer punches. Landed fewer punches. Was less accurate. Got dropped and spent the whole fight backing up. How the **** was he robbed. The only person who robbed Jacobs was Jacobs himself. Mother****er is content to be the first man in a while to survive GGG. Too bad for him morale victories don't count on boxrec.com

[j.razor]

There's always the Jacobs rematch.

Nah, scratch that we already know he lost two in a row so let Jermall finish the rest!

[j.razor]

I think BJS would beat Canelo, but not GGG. It would be a good fight, but I don't think Bill has enough power to keep Golovkn at bay for 12 rounds.

Bily joe is wack & nelo can beat him.