Is GGG in decline?

Obviously if you face an average fighter you're going to look quicker, faster, and more skilled than you would facing a fighter of a better skill level.

You take even a 27 year old Golovkin, Canelo is faster than that Golovkin period.

The faster an opponent you face, the slower more diminished you look.
Use common sense here G'tards.

Its come down to that in this forum. First it was infiltrated with *******s, but now a new breed has come in, G'tards.

 

Not sure which fan base you referred to in that post since it was filtered but I would assume it's Pacquiao. At least Pacquiao fans(myself included) had PACQUIAO to trash talk about. An ATG with ATG ability and resume. Golovkin brings absolutely nothing to the table, literally nothing. The man wasn't even proven and his fans were claiming Andre Ward is so scared of him, he had to move up to Light Heavyweight to further protect himself from the terror. Golovkin's fan base is by far the most hilarious I've ever seen even after following the sport for nearly two decades now.

 

He's in decline...

AND

He's stepped up in competition.

His last two opponents have been his best two opponents, and he is closer to 36 than 35.

 

And....you could actually bring some reality to the discussion - and it might even make you some friends. Think about it, you've made over 74,000 posts and have just about 230 likes. Don't ya' think the boxing community here is trying to tell you something?

 

Marquez and Hopkins ring a bell?

 

Say what you want about GGG there STILL isn't a 160 pounder to touch him

 

I don't think the jest of this thread is to debate whether Golovkins is prime, but to debate whether his performances in his last two fights with Jacobs and Canelo are due to any decline in him.
I think the posts on this here thread have been fair, I don't think anyone in this thread is saying Golovkin is at his prime, but is his imo losses to Jacobs and Canelo due to decline? I say no. Both Jacobs and Canelo are significantly better than any fighter that Golovkin had ever faced.

 

"stepped up competition" and "definitely not in his 20's anymore"

 

Wow, so who should he have fought instead?

Name all the guys that are better than his opponents that we somehow missed.

I'd like to see these lions. Sounds like I've been missing some fine fighters!

 

I said Geale, Murray and Lemieux were legitimate and proven fighters. You're having difficulty with this, aren't you?

I'm having doubts about the latter.

 

At 28 sprinters tend to lose their top speed, so yes GGG is definitely on the decline. Physically everything except his power, skills and experience has declined. The competition is also a big difference compared to his previous opponents.

The Jacobs fight I feel wouldn't have been a huge difference even if GGG was in his prime, because Jacobs had a lot of physical advantages which would have been hard for GGG to overcome regardless.

Canelo on the other hand is tough to call, GGG struggled to land bombs because the speed difference. A higher woke rate from GGG may have made that fight a little more one sided, but it may have also resulted in a lot more missed shots. Really hard one to call, in the end the competition I feel had a larger impact than his physical decline. But we also have never seen GGG need to go all out during his prime, so we won't likely ever see him at his best.

 

Wow...Canelo and Jacobs run and GGG is accused of getting old. Well, Canelo could run, but he couldn't hide. And in the end, GGG landed twice as many punches on Canelo than Canelo could GGG - and here's the video that counts the punches:

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Spot on.