Which fighter demonstrated the most effective strategy in the first fight... irrespective of the official scorecard s?
Been a minute since I've watched it, but I'd have to say Golovkin simply on his consistency. His jab was working all night. Canelo looked good in spurts, but his stamina was simply not good enough and if he had worked more it may have opened him up too much, given the time he spent on the ropes. Although for me, it looked like Canelo did all he could on the night whereas GGG could've done more imo. I'm one of the people who scored the first closer than the majority (7 - 5 GGG) and honestly thought there was an argument for a draw (controversial I know) but not a Canelo win. Top class boxing match both ways, though.
I had it 8-4 Golovkin. He pieced Canelo up with the jab, cornered him on the ropes and dictated where the fight was taking place. I simply can't see the draw. Canelo did impress me with his work when he did open up, but it was just every now and again. What he did do was walk Golovkin onto some big punches (as Shadow would doubtless point out about a hundred times) and he should be given a measure of credit for that. What irks me is that when Golovkin outworked Canelo again in the second fight and made HIM walk onto stuff, no credit at all was given and the focus was all on "omg GGG can't push him back."
He did seem to cop a lot of flack from the canelo fight s. It didn't seem to matter what he did well, he was going to get criticized.
Golovkin couldn't land the right hand. Could barely land any hooks despite going into that fight a fearsome hooker. Tried to win the fight on jabs. Didn't impose himself. Fought too cautiously. The variation and power punching was in Canelos favour , a fact corroborated by the CompuBox sheet. I gave the first 6 to Canelo. . GGG took the last 6 for a draw. The fight was fought evenly. Neither dominated the other. Both of them negated each other This content is protected
