Golovkin under Banks - what did we learn?

[Larry the boss]

fighters who switch trainers late in their career only do it to place blame elsewhere, their style will not change as they are who they already are.

[TonyGe]

fighters who switch trainers late in their career only do it to place blame elsewhere, their style will not change as they are who they already are.

fighters who switch trainers late in their career only do it to place blame elsewhere



That's ridiculous. Fighters change trainers for all sorts of reasons. Financial, difference in philosophies, trying to recapture their glory days boredom etc.

[TonyGe]

What does NSB think of Banks as a trainer?

I was not impressed in the least. Let's look at a few categories, I'm comparing him to how he was under Sanchez.. not in absolutes.

-Conditoning = C. Looked far worse than G ever looked under Sanchez. It's possible that he was sick and it played a huge role in it, but we'll never know.
-Power = D. One of the most surprising things in this fight is how many times G landed cleanly and Sergiy didn't even buckle. Usually with that amount of clear punches landed, the guy would be in deep trouble. Where did the power go?
-Technique = C-. I didn't see many stylistic changes in this version of G from previously. He tried to move his head in the first 2 rounds, but quickly abandoned it. He stopped jabbing which was very surprising. Or rather, he got outjabbed by shorter stockier fighter. He settled in and his defense got better in 2nd half, but he was still incapable of getting out of the way of the flurries. He boxed well off the backfoot like he did in 2nd Canelo fight, but was turned around a lot more. He didn't control the ring well, at all.
Adjustments = F. Golovkin didn't make many adjustments under Sanchez, but he didn't need to. He was able to force others fight his fight. He made adjustments during 2nd Canelo fight to go off the back foot, but during last 3-4 rounds he was back to being the same aggressor. During this fight, Banks contributed absolutely nothing. His advice in the corner was 'jab more', and NOTHING else. Dude was talking about how G was afraid to pull the trigger (hello Wlad vs. Fury) and how he needs to jab. Really?
Motivation = B-. Sanchez was able to keep his guy pumped and give solid advice in the corner. Banks was just slow, methodical, and steadfast. It's a great quality, but he needed to do a little more to keep his guy in it. Golovkin also said several times that he lost focus. What/how/why could that ever happen? Weird to hear.

What do you think?

Well power jumps out for me. Jacobs had aapproximately an 80% knockout ratio about the time of his fight and he only managed to knock Derev down in the first round and win a split decision. So is it surprising Golovkin couldn't knock him out. No..

His technique was poor that's for sure.

Corner advice poor. Don't know didn't pay attention to the corner.

If he was sick it would explain quite a bit.
People thought Golovkin at age 37 would just walk through this guy after he changed his trainer I didn't see that happening before the fight.

Banks says he is only going to fine tune him but he appears to want to make a lot of changes at once.