Floyd Sr. slams Golovkin and Thurman

By Boxing News - 09/14/2015 - Comments

golovkin883By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Sr. doesn’t see IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) or WBA “regular” welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (26-0, 21 KOs) as a big threat to his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) if they were to fight.

For starters, Floyd Sr. thinks that Mayweather would probably whip Golovkin because of what he feels is his superior fighting style. Floyd Sr. does think that Golovkin is the much bigger fighter than Mayweather, but he still thinks that Mayweather would probably still wind up beating him if he had the desire to take that fight, which he clearly doesn’t.

Floyd Sr. thinks that Thurman would be an easy fight for Mayweather because he loads up with a lot of single pot shots that he throws with full power. Thurman likes to load up with his shots to try and inflict as much damage as possible.

Floyd Sr. thinks that Thurman has a bad habit of telegraphing his shots because of the way puts everything he has in the punches. While that style has worked for Thurman against the type of limited opposition he’s faced during his career, it might not work well for him against someone like Mayweather or Errol Spence Jr. Those fighters would take advantage of Thurman’s inability to throw combinations, and his bad habit of telegraphing his blows.

“A lot of people want him to fight Triple G,” Floyd Sr. said to Fighthype. “He’s not going to fight Triple G, man. Triple G is too damn big for him. He can’t whoop him. As far as style-wise, he can’t whoop him no kind of way. He probably wouldn’t even get a chance. Floyd might beat him because he might not land a hand on him. Keith Thurman is just a one shot hitter. Floyd beats guys like that easy. He [Thurman] throws big punches. You see Floyd makes guys like that miss all night long,” Floyd Sr said.

Golovkin is considered too big for Mayweather because he fights in the middleweight division, but like I’ve said a number of times, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is actually heavier than Golovkin at 175. Golovkin weighs in right at 170 when he rehydrates. If Mayweather was willing to fight the 175lb Canelo, then he should have no problems fighting a lighter fighter like Golovkin.

I think it’s just an excuse on Mayweather and Floyd Sr’s part by saying Golovkin is bigger. He’s not that much bigger than Mayweather, and he was willing to fight him at 154. If Golovkin came all the way down to 154 to fight Mayweather, then at best he’s rehydrate to 165. Mayweather fought Marcos Maidana with him weighing 165 in their first fight. Mayweather had no problem fighting the 165lb Maidana. If he could fight him then he should be willing to fight Golovkin at 165.

I think what it really boils down to is that Golovkin has one-punch power in both hands, and that makes him a lot more dangerous than Maidana or Canelo. The weight doesn’t matter. What matters is Golovkin’s power.

Canelo has thudding power, and needs to hit you many times to knock you out in most instances. Golovkin has the kind of one punch power where he can change a fight in an instance. Mayweather could fight the perfect fight against Golovkin, and still wind up getting knocked out when Golovkin finally catches up to him and drops him with a huge power shot.



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