TL;DR VERSION: Kenny Porter said this about GGG: "Even the Cubans, when we were in Venezuela, when was that, '07? Every day we get in the breakfast line, there'd be ten Cubans in the breakfast line, ten Americans, and ten guys from England, ten guys from (inaudible), and then one day we got in the line and was only 3 Cubans but there was 5 coaches surrounding them, because they had defected. I wish I had known what I know now when I been talking to guys like GGG. So yeah, he was great, and he caused a lot of havoc with his pinpoint punching and the power that he had, so we were never successful against him, yeah, he was very good." Watch the interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIiZkOAqlFk. Is this true?
Long version: Kenny Porter gave some interview on youtube where they asked him how good GGG really was in his prime, because as you guys know, GGG was ducked in his prime in the pros, and didnt have a chance to show just how good, or overrated, he was in his prime, and now we will never really know. However, he did have prime years in the amateurs, so someone asked Kenny Porter. Porter said something along the lines of he really was as good as people said, everyone in the amateurs knew about him, he beat a lot of our guys, a lot of the top Cubans, and some even defected rather than face him.
That seems a little far fetched. And... how? Who? Wouldn't we have heard about this? I sort of wonder if Porter mixed up the word "defect" with "forfeit" or something. Then again could a Cuban amateur really forfeit a match without defecting right after, or would their lives be made hell back in Cuba if they did?
It would be interesting to get to the bottom of what he was talking about. Anyone know?
Long version: Kenny Porter gave some interview on youtube where they asked him how good GGG really was in his prime, because as you guys know, GGG was ducked in his prime in the pros, and didnt have a chance to show just how good, or overrated, he was in his prime, and now we will never really know. However, he did have prime years in the amateurs, so someone asked Kenny Porter. Porter said something along the lines of he really was as good as people said, everyone in the amateurs knew about him, he beat a lot of our guys, a lot of the top Cubans, and some even defected rather than face him.
That seems a little far fetched. And... how? Who? Wouldn't we have heard about this? I sort of wonder if Porter mixed up the word "defect" with "forfeit" or something. Then again could a Cuban amateur really forfeit a match without defecting right after, or would their lives be made hell back in Cuba if they did?
It would be interesting to get to the bottom of what he was talking about. Anyone know?
Comment