How long would Geale last against cotto/canelo/lara/quillen/kirkland?

I had never heard of geale before the GGG fight was announced...but i read somewhere that geale would be a real test. not like the other soft-touches golovkin usually beats up on. to me, geale is an ok guy, but he wouldn't go past 3, 4 rounds with lara, canelo, cotto or kirkland. i looked up his record on boxrec and it's kinda mediocre.

this was another safe opponent for GGG. what are they waiting for? GGG is already 32...nearly past his prime. put him with a live body already...there's a lotta solid guys at JMW, MW and SMW. geale is definitely not it. geale fought scared! he went down the first from a shot that grazed his neck! then he made GGG miss a few shots and he landed that hard right hand before getting dropped...but then he got up and quit!

GGG will probably beat the top guys at MW, but not without getting his chin and his heart severely tested first...let's see if he really has what it takes.

 

c'mon now, i know people want to make out like geale is not garbage, so as to lift up the significance of this win for GGG. I've been following boxing all my life. To be honest, geale is not the only guy I never heard of that got a title shot...i had never heard of macklin, barker or murray before they fought sergio...never heard of adama before the golovkin fight. never heard of agnew before the kovalev fight. not saying that just because I never heard of a guy, that he's no good. but i thought geale looked so weak against GGG that i had to look him up on boxrec to see why he even got the fight. i had no idea geale was once IBF middlewt champ. guy also lost to barker and split two fights with mundine... close fight with adama. Right there, it tells me he's a limited guy.

If you're getting beat by guys like mundine and barker and struggling with adama, what hope do you have to beat guys like lara, canelo, chavez, cotto or kirkland? They would destroy geale in a few rounds.

 

i disagree...euro/australiian fighters generally suck. this is why they tend to not become superstars and it's why american fighters usually beat them with ease. I just watched a little of the geale-adama highlights. geale is not in the same class as any of those guys. the last australian who was any good was kostya tszyu...that was about 10 years ago.

 

my point basically boils down to this: geale was a safe opponent for GGG. they knew geale has no power, so they could walk through his shots. If Canelo or Cotto or Lara had picked Geale for their next fight, the same people praising GGG for taking on all comers would be criticizing them for taking on a weak opponent...same criticism, btw, that FMJ gets.