Is It Time We Give Golovkin Credit For His Defense? (Lemiuex and Jacobs)

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Both 90 percentile offensive juggernauts at the championship level at the prime of their lives when they faced Gennady.



Neither of them even put a dent in GGG. GGG got less marked up in either fight than vs the likes of Brook who he obviously disregarded.


He literally outboxed Lemiuex going backwards and outboxed Jacobs going forward.



This dude is very multi-dimensional. Let's give credit where it's due

[Ray*]

I don't think he deserve anymore credit than he gets at the moment. He is a top top fighter, and with all top fighters they can have various skills set, which includes defending and attacking.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Both 90 percentile offensive juggernauts at the championship level at the prime of their lives when they faced Gennady.



Neither of them even put a dent in GGG. GGG got less marked up in either fight than vs the likes of Brook who he obviously disregarded.


He literally outboxed Lemiuex going backwards and outboxed Jacobs going forward.



This dude is very multi-dimensional. Let's give credit where it's due

Well said. When I watched the fight the second time, I saw his defense a lot more. He made Jacobs miss quite a bit in there. Lemieux never hit him with anything big. He's a sound defensive fighter or he wouldn't have gone this far.

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I don't think he deserve anymore credit than he gets at the moment. He is a top top fighter, and with all top fighters they can have various skills set, which includes defending and attacking.

nope. a lot believe he's a head first brawler with no defense.


this includes boxing analysts like paulie the thousand pillows malignaggi

[Larry the boss]

Now lets honestly list who LEMIUEX AND JACOBS ACTUALLY BEAT AND SEE WHO THEY BEAT...Jacobs was a good win but damn you are exaggerating like these guys are some atg's or something

[Sun_Tzu]

He has always had decent defense when he decided to use it. He wasnt threatened by Brook/Monroe etc so he walked through them. People poo poo that idea but its on tape for anyone to watch. He isnt however a defensive wizard, he gets hit with big shots but he can absorb it so far.

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Now lets honestly list who LEMIUEX AND JACOBS ACTUALLY BEAT AND SEE WHO THEY BEAT...Jacobs was a good win but damn you are exaggerating like these guys are some atg's or something

both p4p punchers who are champions in their weight class.


jacobs beat quillin who was an undefeated champion.

lemiuex was a champion who beat several top 10 contenders like N'Dam

[HeadShots]

He has always had decent defense when he decided to use it. He wasnt threatened by Brook/Monroe etc so he walked through them. People poo poo that idea but its on tape for anyone to watch. He isnt however a defensive wizard, he gets hit with big shots but he can absorb it so far.

he has one of the best defences in boxing. period.

[vaynardevil]

well, partially it's because of his trainer's mouth and media hype so people expectation toward him is very high
some analysts already consider him as 1 p2p, he just needs 2-3 more win against elite fighters to strengthen his position, thou ward fans will never list him no.1 until he beat him lol

[SugarRayCurtain]

Lol he outboxed the extremely limited one dimensional lemieux cuz he was scared ****less to fight inside and went life and death and arguably lost against Jacobs whos already been ktfo and almost lost to sergio mora the contender guy

So no he gets no credit