Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux: Post Report Card

[bigjer88]

GGG should get an A- for defense. Though powerful, Lemieux is too one dimensional to warrant giving GGG an A or A+ on the basis of this performance.

[kennethjohn]

A+ power when you hit someone with a suspect chin with your best punches cleanly?

[kafkod]

he lacks an explosive step back, its why he was so cautious against Stevens and Lemieux.....his power was enough to keep them so honest they failed to exploit those flinching moments.....and flinching while leaving your head high is always bad....this is why combination punchers(like Ouma did) will trouble Golovkin and why he seems to respect canelo a lot.....he probably got him to flinch and nailed him with good shots after....

In a way Canelo/Cotto and GGG are made for each other's style.....Canelo can get him to reset and overwhelm his defense with combinations.....Golvkin can walk him down and wear him down, and we already know canelo has been fighting small guys and has stamina probems, so he's never seen the combination of power and size that Golovkin has......it all depends on who can take the beSt shot and keep doing what he needs to do....Cotto has a significant foot-hand coordination advantage and looks like he can punch at this weight with roach.....he can also exploit that to bust up golovkin, but he is at a bigger disadvantage because of stamina and size too.....

I just hope they don't avoid the fight, because it will be great, unlike this one......the only shot Lemieux had was to go out guns blazing, and he just didn't have the guts to risk getting laid out in a fire fight.

I noticed that too. GGG did something very similar on one occasion vs Stevens too.

And during the middle rounds of the Murray fight, when Murray, out of sheer deperation, started coming forward and trying to force Golovkin back, GGG's reaction to the bursts of punches Murray was throwing was to tuck his chin, close his eyes, and wait for Murray to stop punching before opening up again himself.

Watching that, you would say that if GGG was in with a power puncher, he would be in big trouble. Except that Stevens and Lemieux are power punchers, and GGG took good shots from both while in that "flinch mode" without any problem whatsoever.

Hagler was another MW who sometimes, when faced with incoming fire, would simply tuck down his chin and allow punches to bounce of his head without even trying to avoid them.

Like GGG, Hagler had never been decked or seriously buzzed in his entire career, and had utter faith in his ability to take the best shot his opponent could deliver without being hurt.

[Barcham]

he lacks an explosive step back, its why he was so cautious against Stevens and Lemieux.....his power was enough to keep them so honest they failed to exploit those flinching moments.....and flinching while leaving your head high is always bad....this is why combination punchers(like Ouma did) will trouble Golovkin and why he seems to respect canelo a lot.....he probably got him to flinch and nailed him with good shots after....

In a way Canelo/Cotto and GGG are made for each other's style.....Canelo can get him to reset and overwhelm his defense with combinations.....Golvkin can walk him down and wear him down, and we already know canelo has been fighting small guys and has stamina probems, so he's never seen the combination of power and size that Golovkin has......it all depends on who can take the beSt shot and keep doing what he needs to do....Cotto has a significant foot-hand coordination advantage and looks like he can punch at this weight with roach.....he can also exploit that to bust up golovkin, but he is at a bigger disadvantage because of stamina and size too.....

I just hope they don't avoid the fight, because it will be great, unlike this one......the only shot Lemieux had was to go out guns blazing, and he just didn't have the guts to risk getting laid out in a fire fight.

You do realize that Canelo comes into the ring on fight night weighing more than Golovkin, don't you? The extreme weight drain and gain that he goes through in every fight may be what has a detrimental effect on his stamina. When he fights GGG it will be at 160 so he will not have to go through that extreme change and may actually result in Canelo having more stamina for that fight. It won't help him in the long run, but at least people will not be able to say he lost because he gassed out.