Golovkin outlanded Canelo in this trilogy. Fight one: 218-169, GGG landed 49 more punches. Fight two:234-202 , GGG outlanded Canelo by 32 punches Fight three: Canelo outlanded GGG, 130-120, by 10 punches. Golovkin landed 572 in the trilogy, and Canelo landed 501 in the trilogy. That's a difference of 71 more punches landed by the much older Golovkin. So who really won this trilogy? Any thought's on this subject?
The raw numbers don't mean much by themselves. You say Golovkin outlanded Alvarez by 71 punches. That's over 36 rounds so two punches a round is not a major advantage. The power on the punches and the placement of the punches are at least as important. This is one of the reasons I am not too much of a punch stat follower. As for me, I had Golovkin winning the first fight close and Alvarez winning their third bout. I scored the second fight even.
GGG clearly won 1. 2 can credibly be scored either way. Canelo clearly won 3. With GGG past prime from 1 onwards and likely the lighter man in the ring on all 3 occasions, its a good example of the likely better p4p fighter, prime for prime, not being the greater. Canelo deserves to rank higher due to his superior resume, but I suspect GGG was marginally the better fighter at their respective primes.
A fight is scored round-by-round. The first fight was a GGG win. The second fight was close, leaning Clenelo. A draw is fine as well. And the third fight was a Clenelo win albeit GGG finished well. It was a good Trilogy but GGG still wasted his prime fighting B and C level opponents. Unfortunately. Prime GGG beats the **** out of Clenelo who is one of the most overrated fighters of all time.
This. GGG won #1 on the front foot. He won #2 on the backfoot. He blew #3 ... might have been able to win it if he'd cranked the heat up a couple of rounds earlier
In the 3rd fight he definitely nullified alot of what Canelo was trying to do. He did this while seemingly sluggish, but was completely focused and kept Canelo respecting him, with his his flicking and sometimes very hard jab and short lead left hooks. He made Canelo work. Canelo really just edged out most of the rounds he won,that is why he was spent after 8 rounds.