Just like the Ward/Kovalev and GGG/Jacobs fights right? I see this fight as 50/50 but now that you made this thread I'm leaning towards Canelo.
It seems like the only "minority" opinion is Canelo by KO. Every other main option for outcome (either fighter by decision or GGG by KO/TKO) is pretty split up.
Because GGG needed to 'show' Canelo that he was survivable in order to lure him into the ring. Golovkin had been a pro for a year and pretty green. Kessler ( pro for 13 years) and Abraham ( pro for 9 years) were in their primes and both were world champions and the fights were at 168. What's your point ? GGG is not a KO artist ? You cite four fighters, the only four, who lasted the distance as evidence that the dude doesn't KO much ? What do Willie Monroe, Dominic Wade, Martin Murray, Osumanu Adama and Nobuhiro Ishida all have in common ? (clue: None of them have ever been stopped by anyone not named Golovkin) I'm a fan of both guys and I'll feel bad for Canelo if he gets stopped, but his delaying and 155 lb defences annoyed me. No matter how this turns out, both men are elite MWs and would be elite in any era, and we should be in for an epic confrontation.
no, Canelllo is gonna do the shoulder roll alot and move alot he will not be stationary.. Take it from the Ayatollah!
I never claimed that GGG has no impressive punching power. All I claimed is that his power is survivable as proven by four fighters who have experienced it and survived. Are you claiming that those fighters who went the distance never got hit on the jaw or on any other part of the head? As for GGG feigning to fight Jacobs but carrying him-that would be more convincing if the fight had not been so close as to be extremely controversial. In fact, a case can be made that Jacobs won that fight but was robbed because GGG was the cash cow.
You act as if Canelo has never gotten the benefit of the judges or dubious scorecards before. If anybody has been robbed it was a few of Canelo's opponents.
He took the chance of not putting him away in order to get the bigger fight. Your doubts will be assuaged in the rematch.
Gennady will not let this go to the cards; but i don't believe he's going to go after Canelo like Hagler did vs Hearns; he's going to pace himself like he always do, work the jab, force Canelo to spend his energy moving around the ring, and wait for his stamina to dwindle as it usually does in the second part of the fight. TKO 10.
If the opponent had not been as dangerous as Jacobs I would be more inclined to agree. But in that fight GGG looked too vulnerable to be faking or risking a loss. Especially during the crucial last round where he seemed to be getting the worse of it in the exchanges. Now, if you would tell me that he knew that the judges were going to give him the fight and therefore he chose not to go full throttle-then that would make more sense.
An EASL student would ask: "Why shut up and not shut down?" https://www.thoughtco.com/esl-4133095 I ran up against those same logical difficulties with idiomatic expressions when I tried to learn Romanian. https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/