Epic robert garcia on golovkin & abel sanchez split "abel worked with ggg when he was
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Talking about going to 175 and actually doing it are two entirely different things. I seriously doubt the 5 foot 8 inch Canelo will be fighting the best light heavyweight champs and I don't fault him for that. He is a middleweight and beating all the best middleweights is plenty hard enough and good enough.Comment
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Canelo looked great beating Fielding. A very impressive win for him in my opinion. He made it look easy but Fielding was a champion and a top 10 best 168 pounder. I have been a big Canelo fan since he was a teenager.Comment
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Man, Fielding was a C class fighter, Canelo did a Nice job with left hooks to the body
But Fielding is not a good fighter
GGG needs take more risks.
He is a great fighter, great talent, I want to see him against Charlo or Andrade. Not.Stevie Wonders.Comment
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I agree with a lot you said here. Sanchez always got on my nerves a little bit. He did himself in with his reaction after the rematch IMO. What top trainer would say what he said after a very close match in which his fighter lost. Then he reversed what he said later after he looked at the tape and realized it was a very close fight and the media didn't agree with him. A reaction like that and the flip flop tells me he was operating on emotion when he gave his little speech. He was emotional not because his fighter lost but because Golovkin didn't follow his instructions. Yeah that must have been frustrating but his speech was inappropriate. He's gone but Loeffler is still there in a different capacity. So he has some loyalty to the guys that helped him along even though I thought Loeffler dropped the ball in several negotiations. I've said it before and I will say it again. Sanchez has a philosophy that his fighters don't adjust they force the other fighters to adjust to them. That has always struck me as crazy. Maybe I'm interpreting it wrongly but he seems like a guy that teaches a rigid style and that's it.I actually agree. Abe really stepped into a pot of gold when he picked up Golovkin. The guy was very talented and made it far on his own skill. I always felt it was Sanchez holding him back and had a feeling Sanchez would be dumped if Golovkin ever started to struggle in his career.
You know that's not true and you don't like it when people call you a racist out of frustration so let's be cool and not lob that accusation around.
I do agree with you about the subject though. I don't feel that Sanchez made GG. I think he helped him get a start but eventually limited him. Most of my complaints about GG revolved around Sanchez, his coaching, his mouth, etc.Comment
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You can see it in the way he coaches these guys. Look at how bad Gassiev looked against Usyk. He didn't try anything different, just kept repeating the same mistakes. The moment Abe's fighters hit adversity they're ***ed. Meanwhile, you have guys like Reynoso who can tell Canel EXACTLY what he needs to do to adjust, specifically where he's failing and where his opponent is succeeding. Virgil Hunter is another one. Even though some of his fighters suck (Khan), you can hear him calming them, giving lucid advice that's relevant to what's going on at that moment in the fight. When Sanchez's fighters are in trouble, you can hear Abe just getting frustrated at them. He's not giving them any ways to adapt.Comment
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Sanchez basically built up GGG, he was his unofficial promoter. He was the one talking all that 154-175 nonsense, comparing him to Marvin Hagler, etc, while GGG was fighting bums. Sanchez was the one who gave GGG fans the power to be so annoying with his nonsense promoting.
Now he's left out in the cold after all of his promoting and all of his arguments for GGG. It's funny and sad at the same time. Trainers need to keep it business, they should avoid getting too into the promoting side, cause stuff like this happens all the time.Comment
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Sanchez is a promoter/hype man.You can see it in the way he coaches these guys. Look at how bad Gassiev looked against Usyk. He didn't try anything different, just kept repeating the same mistakes. The moment Abe's fighters hit adversity they're ***ed. Meanwhile, you have guys like Reynoso who can tell Canel EXACTLY what he needs to do to adjust, specifically where he's failing and where his opponent is succeeding. Virgil Hunter is another one. Even though some of his fighters suck (Khan), you can hear him calming them, giving lucid advice that's relevant to what's going on at that moment in the fight. When Sanchez's fighters are in trouble, you can hear Abe just getting frustrated at them. He's not giving them any ways to adapt.Comment
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Yeah well said...You can see it in the way he coaches these guys. Look at how bad Gassiev looked against Usyk. He didn't try anything different, just kept repeating the same mistakes. The moment Abe's fighters hit adversity they're ***ed. Meanwhile, you have guys like Reynoso who can tell Canel EXACTLY what he needs to do to adjust, specifically where he's failing and where his opponent is succeeding. Virgil Hunter is another one. Even though some of his fighters suck (Khan), you can hear him calming them, giving lucid advice that's relevant to what's going on at that moment in the fight. When Sanchez's fighters are in trouble, you can hear Abe just getting frustrated at them. He's not giving them any ways to adapt.Comment
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Yeah man, shame on Golovkin for showing no loyalty.
Thanks for sharing this, Larry. I know you're a big fan of Floyd, but I'm sorry you deal with similar thoughts knowing your favorite fighter did the same thing to Bob Arum. Sucks man.
Wow, all these boxers without any morals, man.Comment
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