Originally posted by BigStomps
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Brook was undefeated at that point and had a style that could have troubled GGG - as a slightly smaller guy if he could box and move and take a punch he could have possibly gotten a decision. That is basically the gameplan that Jacobs and Canelo (1st fight) wanted to employ.
That's how SRL beat Hagler. Probably GGG's 5th or 6th best win, especially considering how brutally he destroyed him, it is sad but at the same time impressive. If GGG was over-hyped at all someone like Brook would have gone 12 rounds with him. Khan isn't quite as impressive for Canelo because everyone knew Khan couldn't take a punch so even if he boxed and moved well for a bit, which he did, the first shot he took he was out. Which is what happened.
I don't think Vanes looked much different than the guy who fought Lara Andrade and Charlo and went 10-12 rounds with them. If he went 8 rounds with GGG in a competitive fight then gassed out and got stopped, or if he looked awful, I would not say it was a good win in those circumstances. But GGG got him out of there in 2 rounds and again I don't think he is shot at all, he is only 31 now, and it wasn't his inactivity that got him beat, he just got rolled over by GGG.
For me not everything is black and white and I just evaluate what I see. If Brook went 12 rounds with GGG and GGG won every round but couldn't get Brook out of there, that's not a good win imo. If Vanes gassed out in 10 rounds, that's not a good win. But when you get good fighters out of there early, guys who have never been KOed early or at all, and you do it all the time, I respect that, regardless of if it was GGG or not.
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