Ramirez just fought, slugged it out, looked dangereous but vulnerable. Granted hes a division above ggg
Gilberto has too much foot work, too much length and GGG looks vulnerable against Southpaws. Even if Golovkin landed his best Gilberto can take a punch very well. Wouldn't be surprised if Zurdo pushed GGG back with his physical strength and power. Zurdo is a young prime fighter, GGG is old and past prime and much smaller. Factor these in and this has the makings of a mismatch. Think Zurdo vs Abraham II
GGG or Canelo beat Ramirez. Ramirez is awful. Beating Jesse Hart and an old Arthur Abraham doesn't prove anything. The 168 division is easily one of the weakest divisions right now.
It is the weakest division IMO. At least of the mainstream divisions anyway, I've only watched a handful of fights south of 115 so can't really comment on them. That's not to say it's an outright terrible division for fans, when there are so many B level fighters it makes for a hell of a lot of compelling and competitive fights and being British I'm also intrigued at the amount of potential domestic dust ups there are. It's just that purists and hardcores can clearly tell there are zero A level fighters there. I have no doubt a prime Froch walks through the division, prime Ward beats them with one hand tied behind his back and you would have to be a sadist to imagine the savagery a prime Roy would be capable of wreaking. **** it, Jacobs could move up right now and would have a solid chance of unifying the belts.
Jacobs is a very good and talented fighter but he will unify nothing with a chin like his!!! Especially since he would have to win 4 fights against blokes mostly bigger and stronger than him
168 is a young and talented division, being such a youthful division means it doesn't have fighters with huge resumes. The cream will rise to the top and the division will earn its stripes, plenty of p4p talent in the making.
But they're not bigger, Jacobs is a huge MW and wouldn't look out of place there at all. The only guy at 168 right now that stands any remote chance of achieving P4P recognition is Benavidez.
Yeah and blokes like Yildirim, Smith, Benavidez and Ramirez wouldn't look out of place @175. Heck Hart, Skoglund and Gavril are big men, so is Groves. Jacobs is no bigger than Eubank Jr, massive @ 160 but just above average @168 Plenty more than just Benavidez @ 168
Golovkin would knock Ramirez out because of experience for one thing.....................that's who he was talking about fighting if he couldn't get any fights at 160, but for right now, Golovkin wants to fight Saunders next, then Alvarez, if Alvarez takes the rematch, at first Alvarez said he would rematch Golovkin right away, then in May, then Alvarez said he needed a tuneup fight first, probably in May, so looks like the rematch won't happen until Sept., or ever later, he wants Golovkin to get even older...................Hell, the earliest rematch will be in Sept., if then! That's a year from now!
Still going with GGG but he's obviously getting older and it has been viable for some fights now that he's slipping. Good fight though.
