Comments Thread For: Sanchez: Based On What I've Seen, Difficult to Call Golovkin Old

[aboutfkntime]

He was fast enough, but never fastest. Speed is not the only attribute and, yes, Canelo is faster. GGG still punches like a MOFO.

true

also, speed is not some magic bullet

plenty of fighters beat opponents who were faster

you need enough speed to get your game going, and to be effective..... it is about the total package, like you said

which describes Golovkin perfectly

Golovkin had no problem getting his game going against lower-level opponents

[TonyGe]

I don't think Golovkin's hands have slowed down considerably. He never was a guy who blinded his opponents with his speed. His reflexes maybe diminished but his hand speed in the first fight got the job done.

[Travycat]

You look at someone like Wladimir Klitschko who was born in Kazakhstan, as well, and he was still prime at 36. This fight is interesting because Canelo has 1/4 more fights than GGG at a much younger age. I don't know if that is taking it out of him like Sanchez spoke of Vargas or not. And Golovkin definitely doesn't have the miles despite being older.

Couple that with VADA being so heavily involved and Canelo having a year of ring rust (B-Hop saying the rust is real at any age), and this could be a pretty fun fight. If the drug rumors are true, Canelo may return to that tiring of fights past and may try to swing like Golovkin knowing 12 rounds of that guy in your face would be tough to muster, and we'd all get treated to a pretty fun fight.

[hugh grant]

Anyone that believes a 36 year old athlete is the same as he was when he was 30 is clueless. Abel has to say ggg is in his prime.

Also Abel seemed to overlook Ggg amateur career. I mean how many amateur fights did Ggg have, how many training camps is that.
Ggg has had a long career.

[Shadoww702]

GGG was 35 a year ago. NOW he is 36. Lets see what happens. Canelo hasn't fought for 12 months and GGG aged.

3 months = 3 GGG Years.

[Shadoww702]

I never heard you say that for Floyd...….

Blah!!!! So TRU! Floyd aged Pac Doe!
Everytime Floyd fought he was 20 years younger than his opponents.

[techdude69]

The slow GGG is going to ktfo Clenelo with probably a ginger snap lol

[Iron Fister]

The slow GGG is going to ktfo Clenelo with probably a ginger snap lol

Ginger Snap like the one Count Spatula took from Bernard HopOutDaRing lol

[BoxingIsGreat]

It is not the same GGG. He was not fast in the past, but now he is much slower than GGG 4-5 years ago. The interesting thing is: peaking prime Canelo couldn't beat 36 year old version of GGG.

36 year old Canelo will be retired or he will be still fighting glass jaws or drained zombies or older small divas.

At age 36 (don't see him fighting that long), Canelo will have a way more decorated resume than anything GGG can dream of, even if he loses to a few journeymen along the way.

Your guy at retirement doesn't even have the resume of a Canelo at age 27 (now).

GGG, if anything, overachieved, steamrolling bums and ducking novice, second tier middleweights.

GGG did well for himself nonetheless.

[livershot73]

Why does it have to be until the fight? The excuse is already laid out.

Again...SENSIBLE being the key word.....