Who's more skilled Beterbiev or Golovkin?

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Beterbiev is a finisher

John Scully: Right! Beterbiev’s mentality is destruction! He wants you dead and will do anything to make that happen. What everyone must realize is that Beterbiev is a technical fighter. I’ve heard some say that Beterbiev is just a big puncher and that he can’t box. These guys are not paying attention! If a fighter doesn’t have the obvious skills like Roy Jones Jr, like anyone can see him and within seconds say wow he’s really good, then you must know what to look at. Those who claim that Beterbiev is a just a puncher are complete idiots. They simply don’t know what they are seeing. Beterbiev is very technical, very calculated but again his desire for you to be unconscious overrules a lot of stuff. His positioning, his power and his pressure are masterful. He’s very sharp in that ring.

IM: Interesting that you mention those things because I get the feeling that Browne is also thinking that Beterbiev is just a puncher.

JS: Listen, it’s either one or two things and that’s why I don’t pay attention to fighters before a fight. Fighters sometimes say stupid things, sometimes they say things just to throw their opponents off and sometimes they say things just out of their emotions. Browne might be just trying to gas himself up or maybe he has guys at the gym telling him Beterbiev has no skills. A lot of guys do that sort of stuff whether it be a trainer or simply friends. These guys are foolish, always trying to talk down the opponent. There are guys at press conferences that always talk about the negative things about their opponent. I am different. I ask myself what does beating that guy mean? What if you beat this guy? You just talked hours how terrible this opponent is therefore you beating him means nothing. Nobody is going to give you credit for beating someone who you just spent hours trying to convince everyone that he is not that good. Browne is a good fighter but I believe his weaknesses plays to Beterbiev’s strengths. You cannot have a questionable chin and expect to fight Beterbiev toe to toe. Plenty of sparring partners have said they thought Beterbiev was just a puncher, a bruiser. After one sparring session, they all say Beterbiev is a smart fighter. Beterbiev’s positioning, thoughts and counters… he’s very intelligent. Many don’t understand what to look. Beterbiev didn’t become a two-time Olympian, world amateur champion, European champion and WBC/IBF champion by just being a puncher. That’s wishful thinking, I think there’s lots of guys telling Browne things in order to give him confidence. If I was training Browne, I would say look man, this guy hits like the devil! I am not going to tell you that Beterbiev is not that good because the truth always come out! You can tell me that one guy has no head movement yet within seconds I am going to find out that you were lying to me. What did that do for me? Nothing, it made me not prepare. If I was training Browne he would know what he’s going to face, he wouldn’t be telling everyone that Beterbiev is just a puncher.

IM: Well it’s like many of us say it’s different on the inside!

JS: Of course! It’s like I just said those who have sparred Beterbiev come out say they had no idea! They had to be inside that ring to see up close what Beterbiev does.


IM: Interesting that you mention those things because I get the feeling that Browne is also thinking that Beterbiev is just a puncher.

JS: Listen, it’s either one or two things and that’s why I don’t pay attention to fighters before a fight. Fighters sometimes say stupid things, sometimes they say things just to throw their opponents off and sometimes they say things just out of their emotions. Browne might be just trying to gas himself up or maybe he has guys at the gym telling him Beterbiev has no skills. A lot of guys do that sort of stuff whether it be a trainer or simply friends. These guys are foolish, always trying to talk down the opponent. There are guys at press conferences that always talk about the negative things about their opponent. I am different. I ask myself what does beating that guy mean? What if you beat this guy? You just talked hours how terrible this opponent is therefore you beating him means nothing. Nobody is going to give you credit for beating someone who you just spent hours trying to convince everyone that he is not that good. Browne is a good fighter but I believe his weaknesses plays to Beterbiev’s strengths. You cannot have a questionable chin and expect to fight Beterbiev toe to toe. Plenty of sparring partners have said they thought Beterbiev was just a puncher, a bruiser. After one sparring session, they all say Beterbiev is a smart fighter. Beterbiev’s positioning, thoughts and counters… he’s very intelligent. Many don’t understand what to look. Beterbiev didn’t become a two-time Olympian, world amateur champion, European champion and WBC/IBF champion by just being a puncher. That’s wishful thinking, I think there’s lots of guys telling Browne things in order to give him confidence. If I was training Browne, I would say look man, this guy hits like the devil! I am not going to tell you that Beterbiev is not that good because the truth always come out! You can tell me that one guy has no head movement yet within seconds I am going to find out that you were lying to me. What did that do for me? Nothing, it made me not prepare. If I was training Browne he would know what he’s going to face, he wouldn’t be telling everyone that Beterbiev is just a puncher.

IM: Well it’s like many of us say it’s different on the inside!

JS: Of course! It’s like I just said those who have sparred Beterbiev come out say they had no idea! They had to be inside that ring to see up close what Beterbiev does.

So what’s your prediction?

JS: I can picture and I am only guessing that Beterbiev comes out taking his time with Browne’s speed. Sooner or later no matter how good Browne can move, there will come a time when Beterbiev’s pressure will manifest itself. Browne is going to feel that pressure! It’s like being in a pressure cooker, in a vice grip just squeezing as rounds go by with Browne feeling Beterbiev’s punches. Most guys are worried about getting hit on their chin or maybe their body but definitely don’t want to get hit on their chin. Beterbiev can hit you on your arm or shoulder anywhere and you will feel something unnatural. There’s something super human crashing into you! Your thinking if those punches land on my head what will happen! It’s like when Julian Jackson was fighting there were lots of things that his opponents had to worry about. There were a lot of things to think about even if you were a great boxer for example Herol Graham was boxing the perfect fight against Jackson. Then all of a sudden, a lightning bolt came out of nowhere and just like that that fight was over! Graham had to fight the perfect against Jackson, he didn’t do it, he slipped up! Beterbiev is there every second of every round. When Beterbiev won those titles, it was the last round and I said to the guy next to me wouldn’t it be crazy if Beterbiev knocks this guy out in this round. A minute later that fight was over. Beterbiev was way ahead in that fight that all he had to do was win by decision. Beterbiev had won 10 rounds if not 11 rounds yet he kept thinking knockout every single round.

It’s not just his power! It’s his mentality. This is a guy who is single minded, he’s focused. His end game is for his opponents to be unconscious. That’s it and Beterbiev wants that so bad. You have to have that physiological that emotional strength to go 12 rounds every 3 minutes of each round. You have to have it in that dressing room before that fight. You have to have it walking to that ring, in that center of that ring. You have to have it in between rounds! That’s a lot of pressure for an opponent to deal with.

IM: Do you think maybe this is why Beterbiev is the boogeyman at 175 pounds?

JS: Well I mean he’s proven, his reputation, he goes anywhere and he’s known as the guy who’s knocked every one of his opponents out. It’s not a fluke! Gvozdyk was an elite fighter who Beterbiev broke down. Gvozdyk retired and never fought again. As an amateur, Beterbiev was knocking guys out, too. It’s not a new thing, it’s not because there is no head gear, Beterbiev was knocking guys out with head gear! In order to deal with Beterbiev, let me just say it’s easier said than done.

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Clen didn't want that smoke with either until he saw the signs of ageing and decline he thrives on. He had a state of the art Kazakhstani-proof electrified chicken coop built to hide out in from a closer to prime GGG and he even created his own weight division in order to continue the duck and he wouldn't dare pop his massive Clenbuterol melon out of it until he saw the signs of ageing and decline he'd been patiently biding his time waiting for. It's by far the most brazen and cowardly duck in the history of combat sports or even just combat in general.

And he, as I correctly predicted he would, dropped that WBO LHW strap like it was molten lead after beating a shot to bits still concussed drunk shell of Kovalev and immediately hightailed it down to the weakest division in the sport, a division which is on par with the women's HW and CW divisions. Weird how he suddenly became interested in becoming undisputed for the first time in his career when he could've attempted to do so in the division he'd just won a world title, eh? A division which was much stronger than that wasteland of a graveyard division SMW is. Both Beterbiev and Bivol would've jumped at the chance to fight him and euthanize the Ginger hype but said ginger wasn't about that life and wanted no part of that smoke with either.