Best Canelo performance

Golovkin was on the backfoot and his primary offense was the jab. And whilst his jab was effective I liked Canelo's aggression and power punches more.

I see nothing wrong with Canelo getting the nod in fight 2 he outlanded Golovkin in power punches in 9 out of the 12 rounds.

 

Why He's telling the truth

 

When it comes to Canelo GGG 2, I've always maintained that it was a very close fight and you can certainly cherry pick certain punches and make the argument that GGG deserved to get the victory. But Canelo clearly landed the harder more effective punches, he was loading up with big shots throughout the night while GGG was content to throw a lot of light and mostly ineffective jabs. Yes GGG caught Canelo with some good shots in the 10th round, but in the vast majority of the rounds Canelo landed the more damaging shots and that was what made the difference.

If you count punches thrown and highlight some of Canelo's punches that hit arms and gloves, you can certainly make the argument that Canelo was outpointed. But the fact of the matter is that Canelo was clearly ahead after 7 or 8 rounds and GGG needed a big comeback late. GGG did make a late comeback but the late rounds were still back and forth and competitive, meaning that the judges couldn't conclusively give GGG all the late rounds that he needed in order to win. He won some of them, but not all of them, and in the end the split late rounds were not enough for GGG to overcome the early and mid-round punishment that Canelo dished out.

 

Golovkins jab was a power punch.

 

Although I think he got beat, he was very good in the 2nd GGG fight.

He fought well in the 1st fight as well tbf.

 

Kirkland here

 

I'm not using a YT channel as a basis to score a fight.

Canelo was the aggressor on the front foot for most of the fight and landed the harder more effective punches that's how I see it and I'm sticking to my opinion.

 

I'll use neither just my own two eyes to see who the aggressor was and who was landing the more effective power punches which was Canelo.

 

That’s the way I do it. Don’t need someone who knows less about boxing telling me what I’m watching. And I saw what you saw.

 

He lost GGG 1

GGG 2 I am not concerned about. It was close

His best performance was, IMO, the Chávez Jr fight. He looked sensational that night

 

Lower level of fighters, though, and where he had the size advantage. Fighters such as GGG, Jacobs, BJS, Smith, Ryder, Mungia etc were all at least his size and at least top 3-5 of their division. I thought Jacoba and BJS would give him more trouble than they did, so I'll pick those along with GGG 2.

The Kovalev win was very good on the face of it. Kova had just thoroughly dominated Yarde in every round but one. He was badly shook in that round, though, and it wasn't a great look that he didn't get more time to recuperate. Especially since he was suspiciously easily wobbled by the left hook which set up the final right.

I had money on Kovalev and he was ahead on my scorecard, but I felt that maybe I was too generous to Kova since I wanted him to win. Canelo was landing all the heavy leather from memory, so I wasn't surprised by the judges' cards. Haven't scored it again, though.