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

[TonyGe]

Canelo is riding a crest wave. He destroyed Kovalev. Why would anyone think he wont do the worse to GGG.

Depends how much Golovkin has slipped. He has a better chin than Kovalev. Canelo's best punches didn't even wobble Golovkin. As a matter of fact Derev manage to really hurt Golovkin to the body something Canelo could not do in 24 rounds.

[Doubledagger]

I decided to do some quick research about why Golovkin-Lara didn't happen and one reason was network affiliations.

GGG was with HBO while Lara was with Showtime and obviously the fight wasn't big enough to work around that issue.

I wish that sort of thing wasn't an issue but it does provide some context.

Unfortunately it's not as simple as everyone hopping from network to network to fight whoever, whenever they want (as much as I wish that was possible).

True, but Lara repeatedly stated he had no problem going over to HBO to fight GGG.

[emceetns]

True, but Lara repeatedly stated he had no problem going over to HBO to fight GGG.

I would have liked to see GGG fight Lara. I don't know what types of conversations took place behind closed doors so I can't really speculate too much.

I would have also liked to see Lara move up and fight at 160. He didn't have to of course but it would have put more pressure on Golovkin to take the fight.