Reduced to its essence, Golovkin is more cerebral, durable and possess more dimensions than Lemieux?
?It?s guaranteed high drama!??Iceman John Scully
?David?s willingness to fight back hard will be to GGG?s liking and will open him up to ripping counter shots in close. I just see GGG overcoming some big shots to break David down somewhere near the midway point of the fight.??Scully
Saturday night on HBO PPV, Gennady Golovkin (33-0) takes on IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2) at New York?s Madison Square Garden
Just about everything that needs to be said has been said about this upcoming fight. It?s being called a sizzler, a shootout, a Hagler-Hearns, etc., etc. However, maybe, just maybe, it might end up being a mismatch. As for Triple G, he is being called by many the most feared hombre in the boxing world though on that score I?d go with the aptly nicknamed Dmitry ?The Russian Hammer? Kudryashov.
The stage is set for another ?big drama show? as Golovkin refers to his fights and I?m as excited as any other serious boxing fan, but unlike many, I see this one decidedly in favor of Golovkin. In over 350 amateur contests and 33 professional bouts, Triple G has never been decked. During this time, he has mastered the art of separation and of assessing an opponent early. He then quickly moves to a progressively relentless and calculating stalk, stun, and close scenario.
Lemieux can create major problems for anybody if he lands flush with either hand because he can hit like a freight train. Moreover, many pundits point out that he is an improved fighter since the Marco Antonio Rubio and shopworn Joachim Alcine disaster, but I don?t buy that for one minute. And I?m not buying the considerable hype.
Reduced to its essence, Golovkin is more cerebral, durable and possess more dimensions than Lemieux, who likes to fight inside and at a frenzied pace. That willingness to initiate firefights will be David?s jam to Gennady?s peanut butter as the Kazakhstan native rips him apart with counter shots while withstanding the best David can offer.
I see David wearing down somewhere near the mid-rounds. However, if he unwisely launches a bull rush in the first round, we could have a Juan Meza-Jaime Garza type thing on our hands. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQbhR0wkgKY
