Bad Left Hook - Golovkin vs Lemieux: Full Fight Week CoverageGlobal Boxing News and Commentaryhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/47131/backingthepack-fave.png2015-10-19T12:00:05-04:00http://www.badlefthook.com/rss/stream/92605722015-10-19T12:00:05-04:002015-10-19T12:00:05-04:00Weekend Roundup!
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<p>A big weekend for boxing is in the books! Let's talk about it!</p> <h2>Gennady Golovkin remains your favorite fighter!</h2>
<p>Not only does Gennady Golovkin possess charisma and the sort of literally devilish good looks that make him the spitting image of the grown up version of a disturbing child named "Damien" or "Gabriel," but he's a heck of a good boxer, too. He hits real hard, and often, making him ideal for a sport where punching the other person repeatedly is the main goal.</p>
<p>Golovkin's dismantling of David Lemieux on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden wasn't unexpected, but was quite impressive nonetheless. Lemieux (34-3, 31 KO) was promoted as the biggest threat to Golovkin, but we detailed all week long why that may not have really been the case. Even Golovkin's trainer Abel Sanchez was adamant about his feelings that Curtis Stevens was in fact a bigger puncher, but that Lemieux did still represent a threat because of his power and because he'd received a boost in confidence and ability by winning a belt, like in Road to the Show mode on MLB The Show where you can learn a handshake that raises your K/9 rating.</p>
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<p>GGG was certainly respectful of Lemieux's power and was quite well prepared to deal with the Canadian should Lemieux give him the old bum's rush to start the fight. Immediately -- <em>immediately</em> -- Golovkin set out to jab Lemieux's face to smithereens, and was quite successful in doing so. Lemieux did land some flush shots in the fight, few and far between, but GGG's apparently cast iron chin showed up there, too, as he walked right through the shots as if nothing had happened.</p>
<p>Golovkin is an interesting case right now as a potential superstar. He's dominant, but unlike Floyd Mayweather or Wladimir Klitschko, he is also stereotypically "fun" to watch fight. Mayweather and Klitschko found ways around their boring ass styles to remain marketable -- Floyd by excessively portraying a villain and then wondering why people didn't like him, Wladimir by fighting largely in Germany where fight fans seem accepting of anything so long as the favorite fighter gets his hand raised at the end. Golovkin won't have to do that, so he is more along the lines of Manny Pacquiao or Mike Tyson than he is Mayweather, Klitschko, or, say, Lennox Lewis. That probably means that Golovkin is far more likely to burn out than fade away, but the ride is going to be a wild one on the way.</p>
<h2>Roman Gonzalez is your other favorite fighter!</h2>
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<p>Gennady Golovkin has emerged as a hopeful new superstar in the wake of Floyd Mayweather's retirement, or "retirement." But on the pound-for-pound lists, flyweight champion Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez has been the beneficiary, moving up into the top spot for most sane people, although fundamentalist devotees of Andre Ward seem to believe he should be in consideration thanks to his wins from 2009-11. (Thanks to his new HBO deal, his impending return on November 21, and the possibility of a fight with Sergey Kovalev next year, Ward will have his chance to stake a real claim, though.)</p>
<p>Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KO) stayed unbeaten and retained his title with a fantastic performance against Brian Viloria, a former three-division titlist who came to fight, came to win, and can still go. Viloria, like Lemieux in the main event, was just outgunned by a superior fighter. Viloria was spirited and gave his best effort, but it just wasn't enough.</p>
<p>Is there anyone at 112 who can really challenge Gonzalez? The best bet might be Juan Francisco Estrada, a fighter Chocolatito beat at 108 pounds in 2012. Estrada has improved since then, is a fellow top 10-ish P4P guy now, and has done very well since moving up to flyweight, with wins over Viloria, Milan Melindo, Richie Mepranum, Giovani Segura, and Tyson Marquez. Though young at 25, Estrada is a matured fighter compared to where he was three years ago. If Gonzalez is going to graduate to his own HBO main events, that would be a great place to start.</p>
<h2>PBC for you and me!</h2>
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<p>This is a week<em>end</em> roundup, but since PBC was active all through the dang week, let's talk about what Al Haymon's loved/hated boxing brand gave us on four separate cards.</p>
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<li>On <a href="http://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/13/9528425/pbc-on-fs1-results-gerald-washington-gifted-a-draw-in-poor-effort">Tuesday</a>, heavyweight project prospect Gerald Washington escaped with a gift draw against Amir Mansour on FS1. Nothing special here, but the sort of fight that makes sense as a headline bout for FS1, and that's been a consistently decent series for PBC.</li>
<li>On <a href="http://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/14/9536625/pbc-on-espn-results-aron-martinez-upsets-devon-alexander-by-decision">Wednesday</a>, ESPN had an awful terrible no good very bad main event between former two-division titleholder Devon Alexander and scrappy Aron Martinez. Then Aron Martinez wore Alexander out over 10 rounds and got the decision, a frontrunner for Upset of the Year, a reminder that styles make fights, and a pretty entertaining battle after the quiet opening rounds. Plus, the Lee Selby-Fernando Montiel co-feature turned out to be an interesting 12 rounds, too.</li>
<li>On <a href="http://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/16/9558625/pbc-on-spike-cleverly-fonfara-results-kono-kameda-ref-results-fight-boxing-news-stevenson">Friday</a>, Spike presented arguably the best PBC show to date in terms of action, with Andrzej Fonfara busting up a valiant Nathan Cleverly in the main event, and Kohei Kono retaining his 115-pound title in the co-feature against Koki Kameda, a fight that had a lot of punching and action to go along with an intrusive referee.</li>
<li>On <a href="http://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/17/9561535/pbc-on-nbc-results-peterson-scrapes-past-diaz-williams-upsets-colon">Saturday</a>, Lamont Peterson scraped past Felix Diaz Jr by majority a decision, a debatable outcome with two cards that seemed to favor Peterson a bit more than reality did.</li>
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<p>All in all, it's hard to argue with all of that. Yes, on paper fights like Alexander-Martinez and Peterson-Diaz didn't get anyone jazzed up for exciting boxing, but on paper stops mattering a whole lot once the fights have happened. Both Martinez and Diaz -- along with Fernando Montiel, thought to be too small and old to be facing Selby -- proved they were indeed dangerous matchmaking. And Fonfara-Cleverly was a Fight of the Year contender in what has been a weak year for great fights.</p>
<h2>Prichard Colon</h2>
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<p>We send our best wishes to welterweight Prichard Colon, who fought on the NBC show on Saturday afternoon, losing to Terrel Williams. Colon, 23, took a hard rabbit shot in the middle of the fight, and held his head for far longer than you normally see in that situation. Boxing being boxing, and having seen a lot of injury milking over the years, it was easy to think Colon was just acting a bit to see if he could get referee Joe Cooper to make an extreme decision.</p>
<p>But when Colon told the ringside physician he felt dizzy, the doctor really had two logical choices: (1) believe that Colon was suffering from a head injury, and stop the fight, or (2) believe that Colon wanted a way out, and give him that way out. As it turns out Colon was suffering from a head injury. After the fight bizarrely ended after round nine when Colon's corner mistakenly thought that was the 10th and final round, causing a DQ, Colon went backstage, vomited, and passed out. He was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery to fix a brain bleed. He remains in a coma.</p>
<p>Boxing is a brutal sport, and nobody -- not doctors or referees or commissions or corners or anyone else -- can prevent things like this from happening. They are going to happen. But when a fighter says in the middle of a fight, to a doctor who is checking for injury, "I'm dizzy," it seems incredibly odd to not stop the fight there. The Virginia commission doesn't get a lot of foot traffic with major fights, but this doesn't seem like something a difficult call, does it? Colon would have been injured either way. There's nothing the doctor could have done to prevent him being hurt. He got hurt. But Colon wouldn't have taken a few more rounds of hard shots, wouldn't have crumbled to the canvas twice in the eighth round. Ultimately, the fact that his corner goofed up may have saved Prichard Colon's life.</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/19/9567381/weekend-roundup-golovkin-chocolatito-and-a-pbc-bonanzaScott Christ2015-10-18T12:15:41-04:002015-10-18T12:15:41-04:00Golovkin vs Lemieux 13th Round
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<p>Scott Christ and Connor Ruebusch of Bad Left Hook review the middleweight unification fight between Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux.</p> <p>Gennady Golovkin took on one of the most dangerous opponents of his professional career last night, but you'd never know that by watching him work. David Lemieux did his best, but it wasn't enough to avoid becoming the 21st in Golovkin's unbelievable string of knockout victories.</p>
<p>From the first bell Golovkin went to work with his jab, which was in top form, throwing it with subtle variations of rhythm and power that kept Lemieux from adapting until several rounds had already elapsed. By the middle rounds, Lemieux had resigned himself to the punishment and began marching forward, throwing thudding combinations to Golovkin's head and body. Despite landing a few solid shots, Lemieux was never able to shake Golovkin, who stayed disciplined and picked Lemieux apart with surgical precision until referee Steve Willis had finally seen enough in the 8th round.</p>
<p>Scott Christ and Connor Ruebusch review the action in this edition of the 13th Round.</p>
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<p>Check out highlights from last night's Golovkin-Lemieux and Gonzalez-Viloria PPV fights.</p> <p>Last night on HBO pay-per-view, Gennady Golovkin and Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez proved both their action star credentials and their dominance, as the middleweight and flyweight stars paired up for another exciting night of fights from Madison Square Garden.</p>
<p>In the main event, Golovkin (34-0, 31 KO) stopped a tough but outgunned David Lemieux (34-3, 31 KO) in the eighth round to unify the WBA and IBF middleweight titles, showcasing his overall boxing ability and using a wickedly effective power jab to set up the big shots that would finally break Lemieux down and force a stoppage.</p>
<p>The PPV co-feature saw Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KO) battle the always game Brian Viloria (36-5, 22 KO), as the three-division Nicaraguan champion dropped "The Hawaiian Punch" in round three and stopped him late in round nine.</p>
<p>Who do you think had the better performance last night between Golovkin and Gonzalez? Who impressed you the most? Please don't say Luis Ortiz. I mean, you can. But please don't.</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/18/9563397/watch-golovkin-vs-lemieux-full-fight-video-highlightsScott Christ2015-10-18T09:00:02-04:002015-10-18T09:00:02-04:00Fun with GIFs: Dissecting the dissection
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<p>Gennady Golovkin took David Lemieux apart with patient precision, a pumping jab, and some wicked body shots last night on pay-per-view.</p> <p>Gennady Golovkin put on a master class performance last night in his defeat of David Lemieux, dominating but not with sheer force, as he picked Lemieux apart, broke his confidence early, and cruised to a punishing victory inside of eight rounds, extending his stoppage streak to 21 fights.</p>
<p>After so many HBO fights where Golovkin has straight up brutalized opponents and overwhelmed them with powerful combinations and a high work rate, watching the Kazakh destroyer take a more calculated approach was pretty fun. In a few fights, we've seen him sort of hold something back to extend a bout; for instance, to get in extra rounds against Martin Murray, and to extend a beating against Curtis Stevens. This was different. Golovkin clearly did respect the ability of Lemieux to hurt him, and he boxed his way into position for the power work that would finish things, never pressing for a knockout, but letting come what may.</p>
<p>Golovkin (34-0, 31 KO) never allowed Lemieux (34-3, 31 KO) to get into this fight at all, starting with an efficient, effective jab in round one, creating the space necessary to neutralize Lemieux's power, and keep the Montreal slugger from getting in close enough to do any damage.</p>
<p>The jab was Golovkin's weapon as soon as the fight started, as he stuck it into Lemieux's face repeatedly and established the punch immediately.</p>
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<p>Not only did this disrupt Lemieux's timing and impact whether or not he could really get anything off before eating another left in the mush, it kept Lemieux well at bay, making any attempts to get inside on GGG easy for Gennady to avoid. Here, you can see Lemieux try to work his way closer and target the body, but getting nowhere close.</p>
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<p>Late in round one, a graphic on the screen showed Golovkin landing 22 jabs to Lemieux's 1, a dominant jab-only effort from Golovkin, who did throw a couple of rights as the round wore on, but didn't land any power shots flush. He also didn't take a single meaningful shot from Lemieux over the three minutes. (Golovkin would land 26 jabs in the first round, by CompuBox tracking.)</p>
<p>To start round two, Golovkin showed some aggression, throwing the jab fast and with a lot of snap, mixing in a left hook and a couple of right hands to go along with it, putting Lemieux on notice.</p>
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<p>Lemieux, to his credit, continued to look for ways to get inside. The first time he managed to get in there, Golovkin tied him up. "That jab is killing (Lemieux's) confidence by the second," Roy Jones Jr said on commentary. With the jab continuing to dominate, Golovkin began to throw some serious power shots, including his first meaningful left hook to the body, one of his money punches. That started a flurry that knocked Lemieux back to the ropes.</p>
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<p>Between the second and third rounds, Lemieux looked rattled in the corner, a bit mentally beaten by a fighter who wasn't exactly doing anything difficult to figure out, just difficult to combat. And with Golovkin landing 43 punches in round two, up from 33 in round one, how could he not be? CompuBox had GGG landing at a 55% clip overall through the two rounds, with Lemieux struggling to even get out of the starting blocks. It was always going to be an uphill battle for Lemieux, but he figured to have the power to rely upon, at least. GGG had taken that away already.</p>
<p>In that vein, Jim Lampley had a question to ask in the first minute of round three: "How many jabs can you eat before you begin to make bad decisions?" The patient Golovkin continued his jab fest, adding in an uppercut to the solar plexus. Lemieux, standing up to the hard peppering, tried to work his way in behind his own jab, but it didn't go anywhere, and he wound up clipped with a left hook moments later, with his back against the ropes, followed by another two-punch combo, body and then head, the second shot almost poked in just because he could land it, so why not?</p>
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<p>"What's bothering me about this fight is, I don't think David Lemieux's got a game plan," HBO's Harold Lederman said as Golovkin continued to jab Lemieux relentlessly. "Maybe Lemieux had a plan coming in," Lampley countered, "and maybe that plan was disrupted by the fact that Golovkin has thrown jabs at five times the middleweight division average."</p>
<p>Just after everyone was done discussing the plan (or lack thereof) of Lemieux, Golovkin really rocked him back with a hard left hook -- blocking one of Lemieux's own left hooks at the exact same time -- then burst forth with a flurry of offense. It was the first time in the fight that Lemieux had really been shaken, but he managed to avoid the follow-up shots pretty nicely and get his legs back.</p>
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<p>The fourth round, statistically, had been Lemieux's best in the fight. He landed 12 of 24 power punches, but Golovkin did even better, connecting on 19 of 35 and continuing to pump his piston jab into the Canadian's face.</p>
<p>Halfway into the fifth round, Lemieux finally was able to land a significant, clean power shot, scoring with a right hand to the jaw of Golovkin, who ate it as if hadn't even gotten there, and started firing back.</p>
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<p>Golovkin, seemingly taking offense to Lemieux daring to hit him flush in his face, began to take back the round before David could do much else, targeting the body a few times. That paid off with just over 20 seconds left in the round, as he ripped Lemieux with a left hook to the body that caused a delayed reaction knockdown.</p>
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<p>After the knockdown, Golovkin also landed a right hand while Lemieux was on his knees, but Lemieux didn't really react to it or make any issue of the foul. Golovkin also landed a shot after the bell to end the round. The sixth round started with Golovkin's aggression on full display, perhaps feeling that any shot could end the fight. Lemieux ripped Golovkin with a clean left hook, but again, GGG just marched right through it as if nothing had even happened.</p>
<p>Showing great resolve and heart, Lemieux uncorked several power shots, and really seemed to build some momentum. A body shot got in. Again, Golovkin just kept coming forward, as Max Kellerman noted that Golovkin has shown a habit of being more defensively vulnerable after scoring a knockdown. Lemieux's effort in round six was certainly admirable, and again may have been his best round. But here's how it ended, with Golovkin landing a single shot right at the bell and then stepping away with pure swagger.</p>
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<p>That afterthought uppercut bloodied Lemieux's nose and sent him back to the corner dejected yet again, even though he'd had a decent showing in the round. A minute into round seven, with Golovkin calmly continuing the assault, referee Steve Willis stopped the action to have the doctor take a look at the nose, but the fight continued on.</p>
<p>After that, Golovkin pounced again, landing a hook, a right hand, and then going right back to the jab, smacking Lemieux in the nose. But Lemieux refused to give up on himself, and landed a right hand body shot followed by a pair of left hooks.</p>
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<p>Once again, however, this seemed only to annoy Golovkin, who came right back with a right hand that caught Lemieux wide open, turning him sideways and knocking him back to the ropes again. With Lemieux fighting the best he could, it wasn't enough. Golovkin, simply, was better.</p>
<p>Going into round eight, referee Steve Willis may have been ready to stop the fight at first sign of danger, after doctors checked on Lemieux's corner between the rounds again. That moment came halfway into the eighth round, when Golovkin hurt Lemieux again. Even in the midst of this final flurry from GGG, Lemieux lands a good right hand that Golovkin once again just ignores, and it was probably the stutter step of Lemieux after another hard body shot where Willis saw a fighter who didn't need to go on further.</p>
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<p>It's hard to say that this was Golovkin's best fight to date. As a total boxing effort, maybe it was. His jab was a true weapon, and set up every bit of damage that came over the eight rounds. He may not have physically dismantled and destroyed Lemieux the way he's done so against guys like Matthew Macklin, Willie Monroe Jr, Daniel Geale, Grzegorz Proksa, Martin Murray, or Curtis Stevens, but it was really no less dominant, as he vastly outworked and outlanded Lemieux, did damage over the course of the fight, and hurt his man repeatedly.</p>
<p>If this was a mercy stoppage, then the mercy was deserved, because David Lemieux showed a great deal of toughness and grit in this fight, and referee Steve Willis almost certainly saved him from himself. Lemieux clearly was not going to quit -- he was still throwing punches right until the end -- but he wasn't going to win this fight. There was, in other words, nothing <i>good</i> that could come of this fight continuing on for up to four and a half more rounds. The only thing that could have happened, really, was for Lemieux to take further damage. There was no point, and that's what the referee saw.</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/18/9562815/fun-with-gifs-dissecting-golovkins-dissection-of-lemieuxScott Christ2015-10-18T08:00:02-04:002015-10-18T08:00:02-04:00Lennox impressed with GGG, Chocolatito
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<p>Former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis on the main event: "The main event was a good main event."</p>
https://www.badlefthook.com/2015/10/18/9562905/lennox-lewis-impressed-with-golovkin-and-chocolatito-performancesBad Left Hookfighthub2015-10-18T07:20:02-04:002015-10-18T07:20:02-04:00Sanchez grades GGG's win, talks Kovalev-Ward
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<p>Abel Sanchez gives Gennady Golovkin his grade for the win over David Lemieux, and weighs in on a potential Sergey Kovalev-Andre Ward fight.</p>
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<p>Oscar De La Hoya doesn't sound like he's eager to put a time frame on a fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin.</p>
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<p>Bernard Hopkins praises Gennady Golovkin's performance, but thinks there will be some fighters out there who are licking their chops to face GGG. Also, he hates David Lemieux's hair.</p> <p><em><strong>On Golovkin's win and some weaknesses</strong></em></p>
<p>"You can't take nothing away from GGG. But I think that if Andre Ward or any other person the next grade up is watching, even with the victory they gotta be saying to themselves, they see something. And I think that's what people do when they watch other fights that could possibly be made in divisions that are up or down. To give a guy a report card on who they fight and how good your talents are compared to a guy he just fought, and that is David Lemieux."</p>
<p><em><strong>On what's next for Lemieux</strong></em></p>
<p>"Whatever's next for David Lemieux, it will be something respectable, and it will be something to keep him on the level that he deserves to stay. Not out of sympathy but just because he was willing to put all on the line to prove that he's the best in the division, the same way I did with Sergey Kovalev. Listen, I like to win all the time. Not sometimes, not maybe time, not part time. So this is going to be David saying, 'Hey, I had a great day because I went eight rounds.' But things will move on. Boxing always moves on. There are very short memories in boxing."</p>
<p><em><strong>On the middleweight division</strong></em></p>
<p>"It's in good hands, the middleweight division. It's gonna take a hell of a fighter and then some to beat a guy like GGG."</p>
<p><em><strong>On the way the fight played out</strong></em></p>
<p>"There are a few fighters, not a lot, that are probably licking their chops right now. They look at Lemieux as being a rugged gunslinger. When you're a gunslinger and you have shootouts, more than not you can be gotten, too. But when you're a gunslinger and you're facing a sniper. A sniper sits up, far away, and he'll poke your eyes out until you can't see no more with your jab. Then the right hand comes, and that's the bullet you didn't see. That's the sniper. A gunslinger shoots, he wants all his bullets to be in you."</p>
<p><em><strong>On why Hopkins wasn't disappointed with Lemieux's performance</strong></em></p>
<p>"GGG done something today that people didn't see coming, and that was the jab. He used his jab like a shotgun or a jackhammer. ... When a guy does something that we haven't seen him do because everybody he fought was scared to death and got hit with the right hand, we never seen that. They had the CompuBox, he damn near broke a record with jabs! And when you Lemieux and you got a style where you fight like this like Rocky Marciano in the 50s, you can't fight like that in 2015! You ain't comin' in no crouch with a guy that's taller than you and he got the jab. You can't get past that shotgun jab! That jab was knockin' his hair down! And for me, personally, I didn't like the hairdo. I would've cut the hair bald. Look at the psychological advantage. ... When they see the hair fly, the hair waving, it could be a punch that glanced you, but to the judges it looks like you got your wig knocked back. Those small, subtle things."</p>
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