So far no one has been able to back GGG off

[Motorcity Cobra]

But when you go to the ropes often it counts against you because you are in a submissive posture. The fighter has to do something to counteract that. He has to land meaningful punches hard punches. Canelo didn't do enough on the ropes to make up for it. It may be part of his strategy but in this case it was ******.

It never counted against Floyd. He would go on the ropes, make the opponent miss, hit him with a counter, then get off the ropes. Just like Canelo did Saturday

[Motorcity Cobra]

[Metho_4u]

Notice that at least 2 left hands get through the guard, but are not counted by compubox there?

[Metho_4u]

It's tough to win a decision against ggg when his opponents constantly have their back against the ropes for 12 rounds. Judges favor the guy who's controlling the fight. Can't see ggg losing any decisions to charlo canelo or jacobs. Sorry haters.

You've really gotten it up the ass in this thread huh? Lol idiot

[Mr Objecitivity]

Canelo went to the ropes on purpose alot of times..some fighters love to be on the ropes and it is apart of their game plan

Which is why it is giving up 'ring generalship'. Since 'effective punches' landed is the primary criteria to judge a boxing bout before using any of the other criteria, the boxer who is giving up ring generalship must show without any doubt and indisputably that they are landing more effective punches (which Canelo Alvarez didn't). Otherwise, there is no way they can win that round (barring point deductions). If both boxers land equal amount of effective punches, then the one who is the ring general (spending more time closer to the center of the ring) is most likely to win the round than the one who isn't the ring general (the one who is spending most of the time furthest away from the center of the ring).

The boxer who is backing up and creating distance without actually throwing and landing punches is the one who is 'avoiding' the bout since if his opponent also responds by also backing up in the opposite direction, then what would happen? There won't be any boxing (hitting and not getting hit) since both guys have created so much distance between each other, to the point where neither can hit anybody. It then turns into a 'not hit and not get hit' instead of 'hit and don't get hit'. Thus, the boxer who is chasing his opponent that is backing up deserves more credit because of the fact that the 'boxing' exists, only because of him. Otherwise, there won't be any 'boxing' and there'll only be 'avoidance'.

[IMDAZED]

Moral victories, I guess

[Ray*]

To be fair Canelo was just defending the whole time and not returning fire in the first gif which therefore means GGG is winning. Also GGG was mostly throwing arm punch and pawing so he wasn't really getting tired or anything from them.

Also in the second gif Canelo missed all those punches and ggg went back to moving forward.

Pugilism 101 scoring criteria..

Clean punching -

Effective aggressiveness - it has to be effective aggressiveness. If I just walk forward and follow you around the ring, I'm not doing much. If I move forward, cut the ring off and corner you so I can land, that's significant.

Defense - Picking off punches, moving your head, using your legs, all plays into it.

Ring generalship

[Madison Boxing]

canelos punches hitting golovkins forearms and gloves lol, and thats meant to be one of his best moments?

[Madison Boxing]

It never counted against Floyd. He would go on the ropes, make the opponent miss, hit him with a counter, then get off the ropes. Just like Canelo did Saturday

lol please dont compare mayweather on the ropes to canelo on the ropes. Mayweather would land crisp clean counters when he was there, canelo did jack****ing**** on them ropes for the majority of the time.

[TonyGe]

I agree and I think Canelo would have been more successful if he did more when he was laying on the ropes. Problem was that Golovkin wasn't hurt by Canelo's counterpunching and Canelo couldn't get off enough due to the pressure which led to his fatigue. Both guys are great fighters and good for the sport. Looking forward to the rematch and for adjustments each make based off the first fight.

Should be a great fight.