By: Sean Crose
“I am a bit disappointed in the efforts. It seems like one guy isn’t ready to fight and he’s happy that the other guy isn’t either. “The famous battle coach Abel Sanchez of the Canelo Golovkin battle last Saturday night said so. This is the first time Big Bear in California has not trained Golovkin for a fight with Canelo. Suffice it to say, Sanchez speak Battle Center he was not impressed by his former student’s performance in the rubber match. “I just felt like Gennady’s first eight rounds were like a header,” Sanchez said. “It’s like two dear friends. Canelo threw punches with bad intentions and Gennady just wasn’t fierce enough to try to win the fight. ”
The truth is that Saturday night represented the first time that Canelo was really able to dominate his arch-rival in the ring. Many if not most thought that the first match between Canelo and Golovkin, which took place in 2017, should have been ruled in Golovkin’s favor, even though the referees ruled it to be a draw. . The second fight, in which the umpires gave Canelo the nod, was also very thin. However, this past weekend in Las Vegas, Golovkin used to be intimidating, looking old. However, Sanchez pointed out that Golovkin’s only arrival to 40 years was partly to blame for his former player’s performance.
“Looks like he’s just happy to be there,” Sanchez said Battle Center, “And not trying to win but just trying to make sure he went twelve laps and survived twelve and that’s not Gennady for me.” True, Golovkin considers his agent to be a stalking machine, a machine that can take down an opponent before knocking him down in a brutal fish-like fashion. “You try to win by being aggressive,” said Sanchez. “If you run out of gas, you run out of gas, but that guy will run out of gas too.”
However, Sanchez made it clear that Golovkin’s age cannot be completely ignored in relation to Saturday night. However, he also felt Golovkin’s ring strategy was overrated. “Yes and no,” he said of Golovkin’s age as a factor. “No because, since we broke up, in his mind, he’s been trying to show a different personality on the ring.” When Golovkin let Sanchez in his corner, the tactic was to win the teamfight one half at a time. “I want to win every round,” Sanchez said. “I don’t care about Thursday when it’s Wednesday. I was interested in the fourth thing. “
“Yes,” Sanchez declared, “it (age) played a part because he was forty years old but… there was one thing I wanted to say in the gym: I want you to act in response, not wait. wait to react. “Perhaps Sanchez’s strategy won’t work on Saturday, although without a doubt it once helped Golovkin reach the top of the sport.
