Comments Thread For: Lampley: Golovkin's Entire Career A Failure If He Loses to Canelo

[hugh grant]

Langley is having a laugh. How about getting to 30 title defenses

[Nomadic]

Kell Brook a Welterweight landed nasty uppercuts and straight right hands on GGG.

He did and they were some nice ones. If he had the natural size and could take the heavier punches, I think the fight would've ended differently in favor of Kell.

[Boxing Goat]

“But if he loses the fight, his entire career was a failure.” -Lampley

Dumber words have never been said before in boxing history. He's a millionaire, had unified titles at 160 and has tied the all time MW defense record. Not only that, he's a great person and has provided many, many exciting fights for fans all over the world. Hardly a failure by an unit of measure. I like Lampley, but he clearly f@cked up here. That's almost unforgiveable.

[4truth]

Big overstatement but overstatement is part of his job...or so I've come to believe over the years.

[filup79]

shut the **** up. hes been a world champ for longer than i can remember and most thought he won first time round. this might be his last opportunity to get that big name on his record but a loss doesnt undo everything else.

What else is there to undo? I like GGG, but his career has been a disappointment. Yes he has been a MW champion for so long and beat who was willing to fight him, but GGG was never the type of guy who chased a fighter for greatness. He chose to stay at 160 when he could have challenged himself at 168 for a fight in between his mandatory when he couldn't get a big name in his division. He was handed most of the titles he won and only beat a Lemieux for his a title. He wouldn't go out of his weight class but was calling Canelo a coward for not moving up to fight him and when he finally did, GGG seemed to tentative when they fought. K2 did what it could for him, but they didn't do enough to get him the big fights cause they just weren't in position to pay fighters.

[Ake-Dawg]

shut the **** up. hes been a world champ for longer than i can remember and most thought he won first time round. this might be his last opportunity to get that big name on his record but a loss doesnt undo everything else.

What exactly is everything else? Jacobs win? The resume isn't all that robust. He has to win.

[rickJen]

What did Lampley say?
Was he suggesting he should have gone up in weight?

[trippers1]

Didnt realise lampley was a crack head. Ah well you learn something new every day.

[dibzvincent143]

There's nothing more for GGG to prove if he beats Canelo? I guess beating Jacobs and Canelo cements his legacy. Yet everyone expected FLoyd to continue beating fighters that were above his weigh classes to prove his legacy, this after doing way more than GGG had ever done.

It is obvious that Floyd is better and levels above historically than these two that’s why people ask more of him. And he often never gives it. When was the last time he fought someone we were damn surprise he did? When was the last time he fought someone exactly at the point fans demanded him to?
He has a shot at being the goat, it’s gotta take more than beating old versions of Pac, cotto, mosley, oscar.

He had no wins better than Leonard against Duran, hagler, hearns and benetiz.

[Mammoth]

Lol for all the hype HBO gives their fighters they're the first ones to turn their backs on them. Can't wait for their time in boxing to be over.