Comments Thread For: Canelo vs. Golovkin Rematch Finalized For May 5, HBO PPV

[_Maxi]

Where you seeing this?

The video I posted in the OP. When Golovkin talks. He seems slim.

[future hendrixx]

I've defended Peter Nelson before many times, but if he is going to blatantly lie to the fans in press releases in the hopes of tricking and pulling the wool over the eyes of casual fans who don't know any better, then you're not going to see me defending him very often in the future. First they ruin the best matchup in the sport-again-by waiting too long, which is already an injury to the fans, so to speak, but now they add insult to that injury by lying to try to cover up how much they ****ed the sport over again out of greed by trying to determine the outcome ahead of time, instead of just letting the boxers decide it in the ring in their primes. They did this by waiting until the older, less marketable boxer is past his prime so that they can use him to build the name of the younger cash cow.

The only other two times Canelo has looked as fast and explosive as he did last September was when he fought Chavez Jr, and Angulo. You know what all those fights have in common with Canelo-GGG? All three were against faded, slowed down, either past prime or drained or both, opponents. Angulo was past prime with no snap left on his punches, so Canelo was able to light him up with combinations between every slow attempted punch. Chavez Jr was so drained he had no snap either. And GGG, similar to Angulo, had lost much of the snap off his punches with age. He just started off from a much higher skill level, and had much better fundamentals such as a the jab, so he was able to outpoint Canelo that way, but his faded reflexes still had the effect of making Canelo look way better than he ever has except against Angulo and Chavez Jr, just like the corrupt boxing establishment planned it. It's like they have simply been planning to wait until GGG got old to use him as a sacrificial lamb for their younger, more marketable, North American stars this whole time.

So as much as I've defended Peter Nelson being picky with his limited budget and only buying 50-50 fights, something that he hasn't even been consistent about the last half year anyway, I can't defend him anymore after he was either behind, or he allowed Oscar to, ruin GGG-Canelo, and now that he's adding insult to the situation by trying to mislead fans about it. He's still better than the guy that ran HBO when Haymon was there, as well as the last guy right before him who gave Andre Ward 2 mil to fight Edwin Rodriguez, and he's definitely better than Stephen Espinoza, but those aren't high bars to clear at all. HBO can still do much better, but the pattern is clear enough that it seems like they're not interested in doing better for boxing, they are just interested in money, in which case Peter Nelson's hands were probably tied on this one. But he still didn't have to come out and lie about it.

So, it's still fair to say Nelson is better then the rest of them recently, but I can't be a supporter of his after this either.

cut the sht out already. ggg is not "past his prime" its simply a case of higher quality opposition.

put him in there against rubio, wade, monroe and rosado again and I bet he looks unstoppable once more.

its kinda like when the cavs swept their way into the finals then couldn't do sht vs golden state.. were the cavs "past their prime" vs GS? or was it simply a case of GS not being a crappy team from the east?

ggg fanboys been screaming "past his prime" ever since brook took some rounds from him. u guys sound like those rabid delusional tyson fans who dont give anybody that defeated tyson any credit because "if tyson was prime" doe..

dont be like that. ggg is still the monster HBO said he was. its just that now this monster is clashing with other monsters. so he isn't so scary anymore.

with your logic ggg might as well retire then because its obvious you will not give anybody that beats him any credit.

[BigStomps]

Awesome. Let's get this garbage out of the way.

Garbage? Lol, you sorry punk!
But what else can I expect from you?
Your one of them fools who thought the Mayweather-mcgregor fight was legit. 😄😆

[bigdunny1]

Triple G out landed Canelo by a big gap shouldn't have been a draw... Not really hyped over the rematch more so looking forward to Wilder vs Joshua.

big gap? No he didn't. lol GGG outlanded Canelo in Jabs that's it. In non jab punches Canelo outlanded GGG and did it despite throwing 200 fewer punches landed at a much higher connect rate and with the cleaner shots. Clean power punches >> weak azz jabs that most of which had nothing on it purely distance finding slaps. GGG the killer that KO's anyone from 154-168 and supposedly KO's light heavyweights in sparring yet get's outlanded in power shots by a dude fighting his first career fight at 160? And all we can talk about from the killer is look at those jabs and let's ignore him missing 500 punches and never coming close to hurting his opponent? LMAO

[Dean_Razorback]

GGG needs to work that body

[Larry the boss]

Lets get it on!!! #no #excuses

[angkag]

"If you have compubox why are judges needed?"

smdh

To make sure Canelo gets the decision

[rrayvez]

Hopefully we can get a definitive winner with no shady judging so 1 group of fans can stfu forever.

[-Kev-]

Wooooooooooo

[TheBigLug]

The video I posted in the OP. When Golovkin talks. He seems slim.

I thought so too.

Seems like he's kept in reasonable shape, although it's hard to tell from the video really. I thought he went into the last camp a bit heavy and i didn't think he looked great on the scales either.