I'm looking up and down the top ten middleweights right now and all I'm seeing are brutally KOd fighters vs Trinidad
I think that today Tito in middleweight would be a champion but not the best in the category (the same thing he was when he fought in middleweight in the early 2000s). That time the Puerto Rican champion found an insurmountable obstacle in Bernard Hopkins and today I think it would be the same for him with Alimkhanuly. The Kazakh is a fighter difficult to read, southpaw, versatile, able to box both inside and outside and with an excellent jab, too much for a strong but one-dimensional boxer like Trinidad in my opinion.
It’s a great matchup, Trinidad has the power to end it at any time, but I get the feeling that if he boxes negatively, he’s all wrong for Trinidad, lateral movement, long, stiffening punches down the middle, head and body, feinting and not allowing Trinidad to get set.
In regard to this, I’d probably pick him against everyone, but Janibek Alimkhanuly, I’m not picking Alimkhanuly, I’m simply reserving judgement.
