Prime Pavlik vs GGG?

David Benavidez who is a longtime sparring partner of GGG reckons GGG has lost some power.

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So ^^^^ here we have longtime GGG sparring partner and current WBC SMW champion David ''El Bandera Roja'' Benavidez saying that he's noticed that GGG has lost some power over the years.

And here we have David ''The Hayemaker'' Haye aka the former three-belt unified CW king and former HW champion of the world says he felt his own power diminish with age and that it's not just the fights that take their toll on you and do damage but the training camps do as well (and it's common knowledge that GGG trains like an absolute demon).

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And check out what my boy Andre ''My Body Can't Take the Rigors of the Sport No More'' Ward aka Dre aka Mr Have Gloves, Won't Travel aka SOG has to say about this

''I think what people gotta realize is that, you know they look at my age now of 32 and they don't realize how long I've been doing this since I was 9 years old. That's 22, 23 years.''

--Andre Ward on his 22-23 year long pro career


"People see what I do fight night, they see under the lights, but they don't see the toil, they don't see the grind, they don't see just the pain, the physical pain that you go through, not just in the fights, but to prepare and to get ready for those battles," he said.

"I felt the physicality of the sport, not just in the ring stuff, but the training and the preparation, start to take its toll on me for the last two or three years and I bit down and continued to push through and at this point, it's time and I know it's time."


“I want to be clear — I am leaving because my body can no longer put up with the rigors of the sport and therefore my desire to fight is no longer there,” Ward, 33, said in a statement on his website. “If I cannot give my family, my team, and the fans everything that I have, then I should no longer be fighting.”

“I’ve been boxing for 23 years, and just the cumulative effect of all the training and all the fights, it just starts to wear on you, and it starts to take your desire,” Ward said

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