Comments Thread For: Teddy Atlas: Golovkin Is Shot Fighter; Canelo-GGG Trilogy Too Late

[emceetns]

none of your silly excuses change the facts...

Brook, did not need to " prove himself "... at 160
Vanes, did not need to " prove himself "... at 160
Rosado, did not need to " prove himself "... at 160

only Lara needed to... " prove himself "... at 160

Those are actually facts but ok. Just say you don't like GGG and we'll move on.

[emceetns]

" he didn't have the same quickness "against Brook, that he did against Lemieux... because Brook is MUCH faster than Lemieux, who is a total plodder

regarding G getting hit... go watch the Ouma fight which was back in 2011

Golovkin's " decline " started when he fought Danny Jacobs

I appreciate your point of view and I respect that you have an informed opinion. I may not agree with everything you said but I certainly respect it.

[topo5358]

GGG is half an inch taller, but has a 5 inch reach disadvantage. Don't know how that makes him bigger. And Hagler was cut much more than GGG, not to mention being a 15 round fighter, which is often overlooked and underappreciated.

Weight(s) Middleweight
Height 5 ft 9 1⁄2 in (177 cm)[1]
Reach 75 in (191 cm)[1]
Nationality American
Born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler


Gennady Golovkin By the Numbers
Height: 5'10"
Reach: 70 inches
Weight: 160 pounds

[therealpugilist]

Lol... what’s crazy is no one said he was declining until Jacobs. What’s worst is the guy who said he was starting to decline was Jim Lampley.

Then tried to resurrect GGG into prime post Martirosyan KO.

These poor guys buy into the hype and get stuck up there trying to climb back down off the ledge.

he was shot soon as he wasnt in with Wade or some other no name...writing was on the wall to use the age excuse, if anything he is fresh from lack of grueling fights

[EDDIE SPERM]

Triple Stain been "shot" after getting exposed by Daniel Jacobs LMAO

[Doubledagger]

You missed the whole point of what I said. I acknowledged that GGG shouldn't have said anything about "154 to 168". That's me being objective but I guess that anything besides bashing GGG relentlessly is nuthugging. Now that I have addressed "154-168" for the 154th to 168th time, Lara could have moved up to compete at 160 if he wanted but he chose not to, and that's fine.

Lara already made it clear he was gonna fight GGG at 160. No catchweight, straight up at his own weight class.


What more do you want?

[emceetns]

Lara already made it clear he was gonna fight GGG at 160. No catchweight, straight up at his own weight class.


What more do you want?

Don't get me wrong, I would have liked to see Golovkin-Lara as well. I also believe that Lara moving up and beating a top-10 guy at middlewight might have gone a long way in securing a GGG fight. It would have helped his case even more and probably made the fight even bigger.

[ShoulderRoll]

Don't get me wrong, I would have liked to see Golovkin-Lara as well. I also believe that Lara moving up and beating a top-10 guy at middlewight might have gone a long way in securing a GGG fight. It would have helped his case even more and probably made the fight even bigger.

Vanes Martirosyan didn't move up and beat a top 10 guy at middleweight yet GGG had no problem fighting him, did he?

Hell, Vanes' last fight prior to fighting Golovkin was actually a LOSS to Lara at 154 lbs.

[elfag]

****** to say age wasn't a factor when he got all those fights well into his 30s. Mayweather was 20 or 21 when he fought Gennaro Hernandez. Cotto was 26 when he fought Paulie Malinaggi. Canelo was 23 when he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. Sergei Kovalev was 30 when he fought B-Hop. Conversely, GGG was a month away from 34 years old when he fought Danny Jacobs.

Well thats the conundrum you leave yourself in when you dont fight anyone good until your 30s.


All his best wins that werent close fights are B level fighters at best.

[Doubledagger]

Don't get me wrong, I would have liked to see Golovkin-Lara as well. I also believe that Lara moving up and beating a top-10 guy at middlewight might have gone a long way in securing a GGG fight. It would have helped his case even more and probably made the fight even bigger.

Would have helped his case even more?

You do realise that at the time Lara had a way better resume than GGG, was. Two belt champion, and had more credibility than any GGG opponent.

But you want him to prove himself a worthy candidate for GGG, the guy who was crying at the time about no one wanting to fight him?

You can't be serious. Are you actually serious?