Canelo vs Golovkin 2016 - who takes it

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Who wins in 2016 at 160 pounds between Canelo and GGG

  1. Canelo wins

    5 vote(s)
    6.2%
  2. Golovkin wins

    76 vote(s)
    93.8%
  1. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace

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    OK so this a year or so before they fought in real life.

    Canelo has just beaten Cotto for the WBC and Lineal MW championship, Golovkin has just unified his WBA and IBF title and is on a tear through the division.

    Instead of Golovkin facing Brook, and Canelo facing Khan let's say the two face each other at 160 pounds.

    Here's my take on it, this fight was the first fight I felt Golovkin had started to slip a bit, I never bought the excuse that he didn't respect Brook, I think he just had a much harder time than he was expecting, even though he broke his face.

    Canelo was still improving at this point, hell I think he's still improving now to be totally honest.

    But if this fight was made, when it should have been, how do we see the outcome?

    Im gonna say even though I felt this is the start of G's decline, I think he still had that explosive power, I think he drops Canelo and edges a close decision this time round.

    Interested to see people's views for two reasons.

    1, I enjoy boxing debates

    2, given the G vs Canelo rivalry is well and truly over now, it's interesting how people see the fight had it happened when Golovkin was the mandatory to Canelos belt, and considered absolutely unstoppable.
     
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  2. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Golovkin is 2-0 against Clenelo.
     
  3. Scott Cork

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  4. Hanz Cholo

    Hanz Cholo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Canelo wasn’t ready for GGG
    After he beat Cotto.

    he knew it & Oscar Knew it.
    The Reynosos knew it.

    that’s why he dumped the belt shortly after.

    fought like hell in the 1st fight against GGG that he lost while being juiced to the gills.

    however as we saw in the 2nd fight he has closed that Gap.

    tables turn, everything in life has its moment.

    it wound up being a wise decision by kid Canelo to drop that belt originally.

    look where he is today because of it.

    “This is chess, not checkers” - (said like a salty old man in Central Park.)
     
  5. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    2017 and 2018 GGG has 2 wins over Canelo, 2016 beats him again
     
  6. BCS8

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    Golovkin smashes him up. There's a reason Canelo dithered all those years at 154, and then 155 and then vacated the 160 belt rather than face Golovkin. It's because he was levelling up using that Mexican cow meat and waiting for GGG to show some weakness. The Brook fight is the one that convinced Canelo that he could take on Gennady.

    Canelo had been working a while on the gameplan he used against GGG in #1 and it would have been a good one if he'd managed to throw more punches. Make Golovkin a year younger and Canelo a year less jacked in both preparation and physicality and I think GGG catches up to him and puts the result beyond doubt. Not saying he'd stop Canelo because ginger - let's give him credit - has an absolutely iron chin, but I think he'd have landed even more and bigger. Enough to put the decision into lynch mob territory if it was called a draw or loss.
     
  7. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    :nono:

    Correction : GGG is 0-1-1 against Canelo. :naughty2:
     
  8. BCS8

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    Correction, we all have eyes here. That's not what we saw.
     
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  9. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    What we've learned from the other topic is that GGG fans aren't interested in having a boxing debate. All they're interested in is pretending like GGG beat Canelo when he failed twice.

    If GGG fans still think he WON both matches when they actually fought, why would you expect GGG fans to think Canelo would win a year earlier when GGG was closer to his prime? These imaginary games that GGG fans play is funny, but you sad bitter GGG fans can cry all you want - nothing you can do can undo what happened when they fought. Canelo beat GGG and that's the end of the story. All this crying is funny though, let those tears pour out!
     
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  10. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You ignore half of what you saw and only see what you want to see.
     
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  11. BCS8

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    You're well known here for being Canelo's #1 ball fluffer. Don't come here with that. You're the kind of guy that thinks Adelaide Byrd is a fantastic judge and was giving Golovkin a break by having it 118-110 against him :facepalm:
     
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  12. lufcrazy

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    This is a thread on a boxing site, aimed at boxing fans.

    I'm sure Golovkin and Canelo have their share of fanatics and haters, but they cancel each other out.

    But in terms of what I actually expect, is a lopsided poll in favour of Golovkin winning.
     
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  13. shadow111

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    Lies lies lies. I gave you every opportunity to go punch for punch in the 11th round of the rematch, YOU REFUSED. The first time they fought I didn't have it as wide as Byrd did, 115-113 or 116-112 was reasonable, not 118-110. I had no problem giving GGG rounds 5 & 7-9.
     
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  14. shadow111

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    Haha they don't cancel each other out on here. It's a GGG fest around here. Keep in mind Canelo already beat GGG in real-life and polls of who should have won either match are lopsided in favor of GGG. People call those a robbery, what does that tell you? When fans are calling a close fight a robbery because GGG didn't get the decision you know there's a fanboy problem going on. GGG fans are some of the most bitter and insecure boxing fans we've ever seen. We tried to have a punch for punch debate over Round 11 of the rematch in the other topic and GGG fans were shown to lie about punches, saying GGG punches landed that were blocked, saying Canelo landed punches "may have been parried" lmao then when called out on it wouldn't even address the punch in question. We're dealing with a fanbase that is in total conscious denial of what happened when they fought. They're a fanbase of entitlement who thinks GGG just has to show up and fight and there's no way he could lose. Canelo disproved that myth and GGG fans are forever ravaged by it.
     
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  15. lufcrazy

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    Canelo is P4P number 1, I'm sure he has a alot more fans than Golovkin tbh.

    How do you think it would have gone, if instead of facing Amir Khan, Canelo would have again faced Golovkin?

    Golovkin slightly better, Canelo slightly worse, do you think the fight would have ended in a different result?
     
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