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You got the 1st one wrong right off the bat....LOL....& who are the rest of those guys? LMMFAO!Originally posted by pillowfists98 View PostComment
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He's the lineal Caneloweight champion of the world doe!Originally posted by GGG Gloveking View PostComment
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i could have sworn joe got the decision and compubox had him landing more punches on hopkins than any opponent of hopkins ever managed.Originally posted by j.razor View PostComment
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chad was getting mad cuz he couldn't hit Hopkins then tackled him, Roy was hitting behind the head, joke calslappy couldn't touch B-Hop & he did get knocked out the ring but at 50 years old. Stop playing mind games….Originally posted by Mindgames View PostComment
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Gennady Golovkin’s legacy depends on Canelo Alvarez. And ‘GGG’ is fighting mad about it.
By Rick Maese
September 14 at 8:05 AM
What’s not in dispute is that Golovkin career arc has been nontraditional.
At 28, Alvarez has 52 professional fights behind him but might still be entering his prime. When Golovkin was that age, he was facing a string of forgettable foes, mostly in Germany, trying to build his name and desperate for a title shot against Felix Sturm that never came. He once sat on the shelf for nine months as he sorted out his future. He was already 30 by the time he first fought on American soil and began gaining exposure. And while the impressive knockout victories kept adding up, Golovkin’s camp couldn’t convince the biggest names in the middleweight division to step in the ring. He wowed fans and overwhelmed opponents, but greats are measured against greats and Golovkin’s record was largely built on lesser fighters...
“He has had a chance to present a cogent argument that he’s the greatest middleweight of all time,” Lampley said, “that he’s better than Stanley Ketchell, that he’s better than Carlos Monzon, better than ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler — he had a chance to present that argument and that chance is rapidly slipping away now.”
A win Saturday would offer confirmation that his name belongs in that conversation. Anything else, however, means, that he twice had an opportunity to beat Alvarez, among the top pound-for-pound fighters of Golovkin’s reign, and failed both times.
In that sense, Golovkin will step into the ring Saturday fighting for his legacy, for those lost early years of his career and for his precise placement in the sport’s hallowed history books. Even if age has slowed Golovkin’s footwork and slightly impacted his style, Lampley says the fighter needs to show Alvarez and the fight world that he still has the power and speed that made his younger self one of the most feared fighters that division has seen.
“He’s got to go back in and portray the role of Triple G,” Lampley said, “and if he can win the fight that way, whether by knockout or by decision, he puts his reputation back in order and he accomplishes what he’s been trying to accomplish all these years.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...=.1c531b683f4d
This morning on First Take, Lampley said that if GGG loses to Canelo, his career will have been a total failure! That could never be said about Bernard Hopkins! That's the difference between good and great!Comment
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You are talking to a guy who scores fights based on what he wanted to have happened not what happened. It's often race related too. The European fighter needs the KO on his cards as they start off 0-12.Originally posted by DramaShow View Post
I blocked him because he only watches Boxing for Mayweather, Canelo, GGG the big names. That's ALL he posts about.
Calzaghe beat Hopkins very clearly. 8-4 in rounds or even 9-3. I've never even understood the 7-5 cards which some tried to push to make it seem close. Hopkins couldn't keep up and wanted a way out.Comment
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Too bad Nelo already beat lil g & is about to again huh....LOLOriginally posted by Boxing Goat View PostComment
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