Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin 162.9, Kell Brook 167.8 - WBC 7 Day Weights

[GMAN SUPREME]

Golovkin is in amazing shape as usual, he is only what 2 lbs lighter than he was at the 30 day weigh-in? Only needs to drop 2.9 in the next week.

golovkin is a pro's pro.

[robbyheartbaby]

I just don't see how Kell ever made 147 this is ridiculous he must have been starving himself and then rehydrating to some ridiculous weight when he fought at welterweight. This is going to be fun to watch.

[Corelone]

Tell that to the multitude of fighters who lose about 20lbs in the last week. That 7lbs is literally all water. It'll go away in an hour in the sauna.

Kell is going to drink 7 pounds of water in 24 hours? Does he wear pampers under his trunks?

[Bronx2245]

Maybe Thurman and Porter should've fought each other back in December instead of ****ing around

Maybe Brook should've fought somebody other than Jo Jo Dan, Frankie Gavin, and Kevin Bizier?

[Kagami Taiga]

Golovkin is in amazing shape as usual, he is only what 2 lbs lighter than he was at the 30 day weigh-in? Only needs to drop 2.9 in the next week.

Yea, I'll be the first to give him flack for this fight but he's a throwback fighter when it comes to keeping in shape. Cossumate professional.

[Metho_4u]

EXACTLY. Normal everyday people in a few months can pack on 20-30 pounds of muscle just to look good for a bytch. But if you care more then just what your body looks like it's a problem. Otherwise if all you needed was to get on a insane weight lifting program to be successful in boxing you would see featherweights jumping up to middleweight in 1 year. It don't work that way in boxing. Adding that muscle almost always hurts you more then helps especially if you do it in a short amount of time.

No, NO ONE is putting on 20-30 lbs of muscle in a few weeks without helical help...even then it's beyond hard. It's water, muscle, glycogen, and fat. 160 in 7 days is a non issue.

[Metho_4u]

golovkin is a **** pro.

Fixed for you

[Metho_4u]

Kell is going to drink 7 pounds of water in 24 hours? Does he wear pampers under his trunks?

A gallon weighs 8 lbs...1 gallon a day is the standard for most athletes

[Metho_4u]

I just don't see how Kell ever made 147 this is ridiculous he must have been starving himself and then rehydrating to some ridiculous weight when he fought at welterweight. This is going to be fun to watch.

He can only weigh 157 or less, IBF rehydration rules

[Bronx2245]

Will Saúl Álvarez give Gennady Golovkin the legacy-defining fight he craves?

Gennady Golovkin faces the same problem Marvin Hagler had a generation ago: he is too good for the limited boxers in his own weight class but is too tough a prospect for the great fighters in the divisions below. Will Canelo Álvarez step up?

By Paul Gibson for The Balls of Wrath, part of the Guardian Sport Network

May 9, 2016:

"Álvarez is certainly the naturally smaller of the two men, but there is not much in it and, as a middleweight title holder, he should attempt to unify the division regardless. There were positive noises on Saturday when, after crumpling Khan and showing great dignity to withhold celebration until the game Briton had regained his senses, Álvarez invited Golovkin into the ring and, through an interpreter, told the Khazakh that he’d put the gloves back on and fight him right now, that they don’t **** around in Mexico.

Unfortunately they most certainly do **** around in the boardrooms of the promotional teams and television networks where super-fights are made, and if the Mexican’s handlers truly want to avoid Golovkin, then they will. Álvarez has never weighed in more than a pound over the super welter limit – that’s the weight of an average pair of underpants. If he is instructed to, he’ll cut those extra 16 ounces by standing on the scales as God intended for a couple of outings until Golovkin is closer to 40 than 30 and a slightly softer touch.

It’s a shame for Gennady and fight fans alike but, again, this is boxing and such Machiavellian manoeuvres pre-date the drafting of the Queensberry Rules. So to approach the debate from another angle, is it perhaps time that Golovkin contemplated a contingency plan and, a decade after debuting as a middleweight, considered doing what he has spent years urging others to do: leave his comfort zone and move up in weight?

Just one division north, there are big fights to be made with the latest young Mexican sensation, Gilberto Ramírez, Britain’s own IBF champion, James DeGale, or the Mayweather-managed Badou Jack who might be the best of the three. As Golovkin already enters the ring north of 170lbs on fight night, that step up would be no problem whatsoever. But if he were to push on through another couple of pounds to light heavyweight, dream match-ups with Andre Ward or Sergey Kovalev could not only secure his legacy as one of the best to ever lace a glove, but also guarantee riches beyond his wildest dreams.

Hagler stuck rather than twisted. He never went up in weight. In part that was because there was nothing particularly alluring to chase there, but also because he knew that, sooner or later, Durán, Leonard and Hearns would simply grow too big and have to come to him. In the end, only Hagler can say whether he made the right decision, but his widely accepted status as one of the five greatest middleweights of all time suggests he is probably happy enough with how things panned out.

But imagine an alternative scenario where none of the other three Kings grant Hagler a ticket to gatecrash their party, and the biggest name on his résumé is John Mugabi or Sibson. That would be a very different tale to tell the grandkids. And it poses the question: if Golovkin remains at middleweight for the rest of his career and Mayweather, Álvarez et al never share his ring, will he sleep as easy as Hagler now does in his Lombardy villa? You’d need to ask Golovkin that one, but I’m not so sure.



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