Golovkin laughs at Canelo’s performance against Chavez Jr.

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By Dan Ambrose: Gennady “GGG” Golovkin saw nothing from Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s performance in his last fight against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. to be impressed with. Golovkin says Canelo couldn’t knockout a fighter that was terrible. Golovkin said Canelo looked like he was standing in between rounds so he could impress the girls with his muscles.

In an interview with TMZ.com, Golovkin was literally laughing as he analyzed Canelo’s performance against Chavez Jr. Golovkin was trying to understand why Canelo couldn’t knock out Chavez Jr., because he felt he should have been able to do the job. After all, Chavez Jr. wasn’t throwing hardly any punches back at him during the 12 round fight on May 6 on HBO PPV.

”It’s very interesting for me, because why Canelo not beat him? He didn’t even knock him down or stop him. He looked terrible. Yeah, he must [knock Chavez Jr. out],” said Golovkin to TMZ.com.

Golovkin is usually pretty diplomatic when it comes to his comments about certain fighters, but in this case, he went for the throat against the Mexican star Canelo. Golovkin said that if Canelo had so much energy for him to be standing around between rounds instead of sitting, then he should have used that energy to knockout Chavez Jr.

In between rounds, Canelo was pacing back and forth in his corner, as if he couldn’t wait to get back in there with Chavez Jr. to continue to beat him in a methodical manner. There was nothing coming back from Chavez Jr. to worry Canelo. This should have been a knockout win for Canelo. It would have been so much better if Canelo had just gotten it over with by destroying Chavez Jr. right away, but he couldn’t do it. The power wasn’t there for Canelo at 164.5, and he wasn’t able to put his punches together.

It’s worrisome that Canelo couldn’t hurt Chavez Jr. with his punches. We saw that much right away. Canelo lacked the power to hurt a bigger fighter like Chavez Jr. That doesn’t bode well for Canelo now that he’s moved out of his special 155 pound catchweight division he’s been fighting at for the last 4 years. Canelo’s lack of power at middleweight could be his downfall right away when he gets inside the ring with GGG in their fight on September 16 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

That fight is going to be seen on HBO PPV, as well as on closed circuit television in Las Vegas. If Canelo’s punches aren’t powerful enough to dent Golovkin’s chin, then this fight is going to turn into a rout almost immediately. We’ve seen what Golovkin does against guys when he has no respect for their punching power. He goes right after them in a seek and destroy manner, and quickly obliterates them in most cases. Canelo will be lost if he doesn’t have the power to keel GGG off of him.

“This is fake,” said Golovkin about how Canelo was standing in between rounds against Chavez Jrt. ”If you have a little bit of energy and power, show me in the next round. If you feel like you don’t want to sit down after the 1st round, then please stop him in the 2nd round. This is like game show. I have power. I have muscles,” said Golovkin in continuing to reticule Canelo for choosing not to sit in between rounds during the Chavez Jr. fight. “This is not for fans. It’s for girls, maybe,” said Golovkin.

Golovkin was really going after Canelo, wasn’t he? Golovkin wasn’t holding back that’s for sure. If this is the beginning of the hyping of the Canelo-Golovkin fight for the next 3 months, then GGG is off to a great start. Score one for Golovkin. He’s up 1-0 now. Now it’s up to Canelo to see if he’ll answer back with some trash talking of his own or if he’ll stay silent and continue with his stoic approach to enduring criticism without response.

To be honest, there’s not much Canelo can say about his fight with Chavez Jr. Canelo’s punches were bouncing off of Chavez Jr. without doing any damage whatsoever. What we saw in that fight was Canelo’s power, which had been formidable in the 154 pound division, had no effect against a super middleweight in Chavez Jr. Now the question is will Canelo’s have any impact on a small middleweight like Golovkin. We know that Canelo can beat tiny middleweights like Miguel Cotto, but he still hasn’t faced a true middleweight.

September 16, we’re going to see how well Canelo does against what could be the best fighter in the 160 pound division. If things don’t work out well for Canelo, he’s going to need to think about trying to his way back to his special 155 pound weight class that he’d been perched at for the past years. If Canelo has to go back down to that weight class, it would be tough on him, because it’s tough on him to make that weight.

Canelo can’t continue to make 155 for too much longer without draining himself in the process. Canelo might soon find himself in the same position as Miguel Cotto in not fitting in at 154 or 160. Cotto doesn’t fight the best at 154, and he would likely lose if he fought guys like Jermell Charlo, Erislandy Lara and Erickson Lubin. Cotto would be even worse off if he moved up to 160 and fought Golovkin. I think Canelo might be in the same boat as Cotto if he loses badly to Golovkin. I don’t see Canelo having a place at 160 against the likes of Golovkin, Danny Jacobs and Jermall Charlo.

GGG definitely didn’t like the Canelo was standing in between rounds, and he definitely didn’t like the way he couldn’t finish off a fighter that was no threat to him in Chavez Jr. Canelo and Golden Boy Promotions took a lot of flak from the boxing fans for how bad the Chavez Jr. fight was.

Canelo could have short-circuited a lot of the negative press he could if he’d have just jumped on Chavez Jr. and finished him off with a flurry of power shots in the 1st or 2nd rounds. There was no reason for Canelo not to go all out in order to knockout Chavez Jr. The only reason I can think that Canelo couldn’t get the knockout of Chavez Jr. is because he was afraid to gas out while trying to knock him out. Canelo would have needed to put together at least 20 good head shots for him to knockout Chavez Jr. and if he had failed in doing, he likely would have been completely gassed out.