Geale: Golovkin is the biggest puncher in the sport

By Boxing News - 07/27/2014 - Comments

geale331By Allan Fox: Former IBF/WBA middleweight champion Daniel Geale (30-3, 16 KO’s) was skeptical about WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) being the real deal before their fight last night at Madison Square Garden in New York, but after finding out firsthand how powerful Golovin is in getting knocked out in the 3rd round, the 33-year-old Geale is now officially on board the GGG express.

Geale believes that Golovkin is the hardest puncher in boxing, and he feels that there’s really no one that has any chance of beating him right now because of his punching power.

“I’m not ashamed to say I lost to Golovkin,” said Geale via Fightnews.com. “He’s one of the best fighters in boxing and certainly the biggest puncher in the sport. I did my best to come out strong but he was the better man tonight.”

Geale used the right strategy us moving constantly last night against Golovkin, but where he got into trouble twice was when he positioned himself against the ropes to try and fight. Geale was knocked down in the second when he stopped with his back against the ropes and tried to duck a flurry from Golovkin.

One of Golovkin’s machine gun shots hit Geale on the back of the head, causing him to fall face first on the canvas. In the second knockdown, Geale stopped moving when he had his back against the ropes in the 3rd, and Golovkin then hit him with a scorching right counter shot after getting hit with a big punch from Geale. It looked like Geale stood still for too long in admiring his work after landing a right hand instead of putting his guard back up to protect his chin.

If you look at the replay, Geale froze after he landed a big right hand while watching Golovkin’s reaction to the punch. In hindsight, it was a mistake that cost Geale the fight. But he clearly wasn’t going to land much longer with the way he kept stopping to exchange with Golovkin while backed against the ropes.

Geale had never been knocked out before until last night. He showed why he’d never been knocked out, because he’s incredibly hard to hit. As for why Geale kept stopping to rest against the ropes, it could be that age is starting to catch up to him. He’s 33 now, and definitely not the youthful fighter that he once was earlier in his career. He looked like a fighter in mid-30s last night and his wheels weren’t strong enough to carry him around for 12 rounds to avoid Golovkin.

Whether Golovkin is able to clean out the 160 pound division like he says he wants to do is unclear, because he still has some tough obstacles in front of him in Peter Quillin, Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.

The 24-year-old Canelo is still fighting in the junior middleweight division, but it’s clear that he’s a middleweight that melts down to fight junior middleweights. Golovkin will need to prove that he can take Canelo’s power in order to add his name to his resume if Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya will give Canelo a chance to fight him.



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