Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Canelo vs. Golovkin Post-Fight Mania

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The Daily Breadman Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards answering a ton of questions regarding last week's middleweight clash between unified champion Gennady Golovkin and challenger Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, which saw a controversial ending at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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[Ray*]

Am glad breadman saw this fight without any commentary. Am glad he notice GGG missing a lot of his thrown punches even though he score the fight to GGG.

[angkag]

I remember a commentator mentioning that JCC Sr. never blinked during exchanges in one of his fights, another example of the 'cat eyes'.

[Eff Pandas]

A P4P ref and judge list should be a thing. Not a bad idea. And a top ten bad ref and judge list by fans would be interesting.

I think these judges are largely names without faces that most of us easily forget doe is the problem. The commissions just see any bs card as a blip on the screen that they feel is of lil meaning so they don't punish them accordingly and most fans will forget about the other 2 bad judges Saturday until they become the next Byrd that now everyone knows.

[HarvardBlue]

I think there's more going on with Golovkin other than just age and decline. I don't think he's confident he can blast people out like he used to. Once the mental edge is gone it's natural for the physicals gifts to go with it.

[OnlyBeingHonest]

I scored round 1 for Nelo, even though i bet on GGG.

[MDPopescu]

... breadman: "I thought GGG won the fight. But..."


... But... but... but...

[Boxing Logic]

Damn Breadman respect for being the only media person to give voice to my exact frustrations. They ducked him for so long until he declined, and boy has he. But Bread do you give any credence to Virgil Hunter and Victor Conte's theory that it's not age that has declined GGG by itself, but rather overtraining in altitude and then sleeping and recovering, or should I say failing to properly recover, in altitude, where there is not enough oxygen in the air during sleep to repair all the muscles that he works out during the day?

Please post your opinion on this, and if you can, for the sake of GGG, contact someone on his team and bring this up. If there is anything at this point that can be done to help him regain some of the high twitch snap and explosion he used to have on his punches, I want them to be aware of it, and do it. It seems like Virgil Hunter, Conte, and others are aware of the mistakes Abel is potentially making in GGG's physical preparation, but Abel, GGG, and his team are not, so someone for the love of Santa Clause please ****ing tell them! They can only fix the problem if someone educates them that the problem exists!

[Boxing Logic]

I think there's more going on with Golovkin other than just age and decline. I don't think he's confident he can blast people out like he used to. Once the mental edge is gone it's natural for the physicals gifts to go with it.

It all snowballs. Once your speed declines, when you throw, you don't land as often, and you get countered in spots you didn't used to get countered in. So, you become more hesitant to throw your punches, and then that causes them to slow down even more, because you don't believe in them as much, because as a matter of fact, you shouldn't, because they're not as good anymore.

But it all starts with the physical decline. Otherwise, when did GGG lose his confidence that he could blast people out? When he broke Kell Brook's orbital bone, that made him lose confidence? When he stopped Lemieux and Murray? When? Because all of those fights, I saw signs of physical decline, but no signs of mental decline that you're talking about. Was it when he couldn't knock out Jacobs? Because the physical decline was evident early in that fight, and was I believe the reason he couldn't knock out Jacobs in the first place.

[eternalfighter]

I don't understand this...its almost anger that the a fighter that everyone thought was going to be dominant ended up not. Ggg, Kovalev, Gonzalez in 1rst fight with Rungvisai. I had canelo outpointing ggg with cleaner power shots and combos. I had Rungvisai edging out choco in the first fight. Both called "robberies" to choco and ggg which is bull****! Its like the outlets and certain "fans" get mad because things dont turn out how they wanted.