Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter: GGG Could Fight For Another Five Years

[kafkod]

Golovkin may be past his physical prime but the qualities which make him a great fighter - power, stamina, chin, technique and heart - are the last things he will lose, so he probably can keep winning till he's 40, if he wants to.

[Satir]

haters start panicking

[turnedup]

Nope, nope, nope..please don't. Like the guy and the heart he shows in the ring but nah man.

[theface07]

He takes too much punishment to be around for another 5 years. Adonis Stevenson is 40 & on top because he takes very little punishment

Bahahaha. No, no, no. Don't get it twisted. Stevenson is on top because he continues to fight fringe contenders, journeymen and undersized opponents. Lets see how he does if he honors his long overdue mandatory or takes on Jack, Barrera, Gvozdyk or Beterbiev.

[theface07]

GGG is getting old. He ran out of gas and slowed drastically in the late rounds against Alvarez. Alas.
And Loeffler is just a money maker. He doesn't care about Golovkin. He will use him as long as it yields profits.

What a load of BS. Yeah, he gassed late against Alvarez but still won the bulk of the rounds. If he was so gassed, why didn't the younger, fresher, faster Alvarez knock his ass out or dominate those rounds? I think you're analyzing the fight as it played out in your dreams, not what happened in reality.

[theface07]

Now the lil g fans can't use the "he's getting old" excuse NO MORE! Thanks tom!

Anything to try and make Golovkin look bad right? You call GGG lil g yet he just fought a fully fledged top ranked middleweight in Canelo, a guy who has been getting a massive weight advantage on his opponents for years. If GGG is Lil G, what does that make Canelo, Tiny C?
Try not to be so blatantly bias and subjective in your comments and people may actually start taking you seriously.

[theface07]

Not saying G is clean but since the wbc clean boxing enrollment he slowed down a bit. Unlike Canelo and Jacobs. Both with paperthin skinn blown up muscles and super vascularity.

Yes yes the upper echelon genetics

Of course he's slowed down. He's getting older. It's called affects of the natural aging process. Jacobs and Canelo are much younger than GGG and still in their prime so why would they slow down noticeably unless they had a lapse in discipline or changes in their diet and training regimen?

[Gillie]

He definitely seems to be showing his age. Speed is his only weakness as well, especially as he ages, and he just fought the two fastest guys at 160. Power is also a problem for anyone and he just fought two guys who are not only very fast, but who are also very powerful, so if you mess up and their speed catches you, it's not just getting caught with speed, it's getting caught with big power.

So, Canelo and Jacobs might just be "all wrong" for GGG, and yet he found a way vs both. Unless they improve his training, I dont see how he fights 5 more years at the top level, but maybe if he can transition to 168 successfully as he ages, a weight class where power counts for more and speed slightly less, then he can continue to win at the top level. The higher you go up in weight, the more you can survive losing a tiny bit of speed, since it becomes less about fast twitch boxing and more about size and power. GGG doesn't have the size either though... but, maybe with modern "nutrition," he can get it just like Ward did for the rematch with Kovalev, and Canelo did for the GGG fight.

Good post. Agree with all points.

[BillyBoxing]

Dude what are you talking about? He was NEVER fast!

I never said he was fast...

[MagikLair]

well any boxer can fight on and on. But what shape will they be in. I suggested 1-2 more fights and call it a day