Comments Thread For: Monroe Confident: Canelo Will Beat Gennady Golovkin
Last May, middleweight contender Willie Monroe Jr. (19-2, 6KOs) put in a courageous effort against WBC/WBA/IBF/IBO middleweight king Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs).
Canelo is a super middleweight dwarf who can neither beat the guys smaller than himself (Mayweather, Lara, Trout, Saunders, Jacobs, Golovkin, Abraham) or the guys at his own size (DeGale, Bute, Jack, Dirrell, etc. etc. etc.), so he makes his own strange weight classes.
Monroe hasn't said anything wrong, on paper Canelo has the right style to beat GGG, it's just a matter of if he's good enough and if he can execute his gameplan.
I don't think he would be able to get inside Golovkin, Golovkin's jab is too sharp and Canelo isn't the 'take one to give one' type of fighter, he's very defensively responsible and won't put himself in harm's way.
Either Monroe wants Canelo to get destroyed so that he can say he did better vs GGG or Monroe wants Canelo to get destroyed so that he can say he did better vs GGG.
Monroe's best quote on this whole matter: "I'm done".
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