By Dan Ambrose: Gabriel Rosado knows more anyone how difficult it is to fight IBO/WBA middleweight champion Genndy “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) after losing to him by a 7th round stoppage two years ago in 2013. Rosado changed his fighting style to become more of a boxer in hopes that it would work to keep Golovkin from being able to blast him out quickly.
It did work in part for Rosado because he was able to make it to the 7th round by running from Golovkin, but it didn’t help him get the victory. After having learned a valuable lesson the hard way, Rosado thinks that IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) is going to need to come out fast and start throwing bombs immediately in his fight with Golovkin on October 17th at Madison Square Garden.
Rosado thinks it would be a bad idea for Lemieux to change his natural fighting style against Golovkin, because he doesn’t think that will work at all.
“He [Lemieux] has to fight his fight. I think the biggest mistake he can do is to try and switch up,” Rosado said to Fighthype. “You got to do what got you there and just brawl, because that’s what he’s good at. He’s good at brawling. I think it’s a fight where you have to go in there and try and take Triple G’s head off because if you don’t he’s going to take yours off. I still favor Triple G in this fight,” Rosado said.
Lemieux is probably stuck having to fight in his normal fighting style if he wants to have any chance of beating Golovkin. It’s not going to work at all if Lemieux goes out there and tries to imitate Floyd Mayweather Jr. on October 17th in hopes that he can give Golovkin a boxing lesson.
It takes too much time for a fighter to change their normal fighting style, and you can’t do it in one training camp unless you’re a brilliant fighter like Mayweather. Lemieux only has one gear in his game, and it’s not going to work out to his benefit if he boxes Golovkin. The problem is that Lemieux’s style of fighting is the one that Golovkin likes the best from his opponents.
Golovkin does really well against fighters that try and stand and trade with him the way that Lemieux does, and I can see this going badly for Lemieux even if he listens to Rosado’s advice and fights his normal fighting style.
“Finally, he [Golovkin] has gotten someone who he considers as a threat. Someone that he feels will give him a fight for as long as it lasts,” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez said. “All the great fighters have been hurt and if that happens how is he going to react? But I am confident that it won’t go twelve, he [Golovkin] is going to go down as one of the best punchers and best middleweights ever.”
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I think Sanchez is right. One of these guys is going to get knocked out in this fight and I suspect it’ll be Lemieux. He’s too reliant on his left hook to do all of his work for him, and his defense is very poor.
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