Lets compare Gennady Golovkin to Ricardo Lopez

I see Beetljuice is at it again. :rofl

 

I've never defended GGG, I think his competition level has been weak, but if he wants to stay at 160 lbs and wait out Canelo, I dont see anything wrong with that.

Mayweather is another matter as he's been avoiding certain styles of fighters, most recently the faster Amir Khan when Mayweather himself polled the fans to pick his next opponent. Amir Khan won that poll and Mayweather fought Maidana instead.
We already know Mayweather can beat Maidana's type style, can he handle speed would be my question mark.
The last time Mayweather went up against real speed was when he matched up with MENTAL MIDGET Zab Judah.
Judah won the first 5 rounds and true to his mental midget form in the totality of his career, he loses total focus.
If it had been just Mayweather where Judah went to pieces, you could argue that Mayweather just made the adjustments, but we all know Judah loses focus against most anyone thats at a high level, so Mayweather shouldn't be given all the credit in that situation.

Wow, Judah's speed really troubles Mayweather, I'd sure like to see him against speed better than his again. No such luck, Mayweather doesn't fight those!
Oh wait a minute, he did fight Manny Pacquiao. Literally a midget who dwarfed him in height and reach.......and as an added bonus, the midget had been KTFO not that long ago by a career featherweight.

 

I stopped reading when you said zab won the first 5 rounds. Either you don't know how to score a fight or you will say anything just to be heard. They split the first 4 rounds and zab won the 12th. He won 3 rounds in that fight go back and rewatch it. Lastly khan isn't faster than pbf. Pbf would beat khan to the punch all day long pbf has better reflexes than khan who's a mental midget himself. Khan can't out box pbf nor can he knock him out so how does he win? Maidana was more deserving than khan was he came off a huge win against broner while khan lost to Garcia and just went life and death with diaz. Maidana stylistically is a harder fight for pbf because he's physical dirty and throws a looping overhand right. Khan on the other hand is pretty textbook pbfs defense is designed to nullify textbook guys like khan. Pbf is a horrible match up for him and bears him going away.

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Why are people focusing on Mayweather and Ward, the comparison's between Lopez and GGG..

 

Divac I can tell you didn't actually watch boxing or Floyd back in his prime. Floyd was the guy being ducked not the other way around. Yeah I know it's popular to call Floyd ducker, cherrypicker, but it's easy to draw criticism when the boxing world considers you the best fighter within 5 weight ranges

 

Because, for some folks, everything is about li'l Floyd, all the time, every thread. :yep

 

Well said !

Yes sir, it makes perfect sense to base your assessment of a fighter on the comments and exaggerated claims of some of his fanboys, especially if the same fanboys would happen to slight L'il Floyd !

After all, isn't Money the measure of all things ?
( The boxer, that is. Not the filthy green stuff)

If a boxer's fans insult the little fella, how good can that boxer be ?

Does it make any sense to consider the offensive and defensive fundamentals of the man, his ring generalship, footwork, chin and power, when his fanboys have said things that might bring Floyd to tears ?

No sir !

A boxer, any boxer, should always be judged on what his fans say about Floyd.

If a boxer's fanboys and such would just keep their mouths shut about Li'l Floyd...then that boxer would get his due....and hed be fine.

Good to see we have at least one expert on here who knows how to assess boxing talent.

 

It might have been 4 rounds to zip, its been so long, but I do know Judah won the first 4 to 5 rounds in that fight and it had me surprised as I thought Mayweather was going to dismantle Judah from the get go and I was wrong.
Ultimately on my card Mayweather eeked out a decision.

Don't give me this **** about beating Broner. Broner is **** that should be flushed down the toilet. Broner is nothing, a fighter who's won championships fighting C level fighters.

The fans chose Khan for Mayweather to fight and Mayweather gave everyone the middle finger and fought Maidana. Twice to boot as he wanted zero part of Khan.
Then for his last fight he goes with the deserving Andre Berto who went into the Mayweather fight having lost 3 of 6 fights.
Losing to Ortiz, Guerrero, and Karass. Only winning vs Zavek, Chambers and the legendary Josesito Lopez.
Stuff of legends!

 

It would have been a notch on Finito's cap to have Carbajal on his resume no doubt, but after Chiquita decisioned him twice, it kind of took the luster off of the matchup somewhat and promoters weren't willing to offer anything close to the million dollar payday that both Chiquita and Carbajal made for their fights.

The little guys in those days were used to garnish the main event fighters like Tyson and Chavez.

I have great respect for Michael Carbajal. "Manitas de Piedra." A ****ing warrior. But believe me, I've been watching boxing for well over 30 years, since Duran vs Leonard actually. Finito was a cut above both Chiquita and Carbajal. Just a complete fighter. Fluid in his movements and so precise in his punching.
Finito was a smaller version of Marquez, only more fluid in his overall ability.
Though Marquez has accomplished more, I have a ****ing time rating Marquez above Finito.
If you lived his era and saw most of his fight, you cant possibly not appreciate his greatness.

Ricardo Finito Lopez KO8 Michael Carbajal.
Because Carbajal was a warrior of the highest order, he couldn't possibly have lasted the distance against Ricardo Lopez, and I'm confident about that.

To bad for us that promoters looked upon the great little guys as nothing more than fighters to fill the undercards for the bigger guys.
Damn shame!!!

 

and a note of interest to add, Finito destroyed Saman Sorjaturang, who then went on to defeat Chiquita Gonzalez and embarked on a 4 year reign at light flyweight.:deal

 

Don't you realize they are doing that in response to you??

 

Yep, knocked him out in two. Two years later Saman knocked out and retired Chiquita.
Thanks for pointing that out my friend! :good