Eddy Reynoso: Golovkin can’t get any better

By Hesiquio Balderas

Trainer Eddy Reynoso has molded Canelo Alvarez from a young man into one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world today and arguably boxing’s top superstar.

Eddy is a student of the game, a historian. There’s no boxing book, magazine or video that Reynoso doesn’t study and analyze. Especially he loves to study fighters from the past, from the way those fighters were thinking, to what they ate, and more importantly how they trained and how they fought.

Eddy made Oscar “Chololo” Larios a super bantamweight and featherweight champion, helped Javier “Chatito” Jáuregui to become lightweight world champion and made his star pupil Saul “Canelo” Alvarez a two-division world champion at super welterweight and middleweight.

Reynoso talked to the media right after Canelo and Golovkin public media workouts on Sunday.

“We studied the Golovkin fight many times and we saw that he is very slow, very slow. The more we studied him, the more flaws we see in him. He seems to be slow and dumb when going forward. He is slow going forward and he doesn’t know what to do when you push him back,” said Reynoso.

“Golovkin can’t get any better, because he hasn’t fought in over a year just like Saul. You can’t call the Vanes bout a real fight. Vanes was just a punching bag, there was no fight,” stated Eddy.

“A fighter at 36 years of age can’t learn anything new and would learn even less with the type of trainer Golovkin has. The only thing that Abel taught him was to run his mouth!” concluded Eddy Reynoso.