Alright, first let’s get this out of the way, while I am ggg fan I am by no means blinded by my love or my fandom for ggg heck I picked canelo for the rematch.... Now that that’s out of the way, I never saw ggg visibly hurt, there was a bunch of times ggg was coming forward and took some counters that stopped him right in his tracks( wish I could post the slow mo gifs where you clearly see ggg eyes) but he wasn’t in any danger of being stopped like I said it’s remarkable to me that he wasn’t shaky or unbalanced or on wobbly legs at any point.... he smiled because canelo got him on some of those counters(they looked brutal).
Yes of course you can stop someone on punches just from accumulated damage alone , yes I know you don’t need to ko someone to get a stoppage thanks captain obvious. I didn’t think he was that cautious at all, he slowed his rhythm from some of those counters but he kept coming forward a lot, stopped utilizing his jab during periods of the fight and did absolutely nothing the first four rounds. Ggg didn’t run through canelo simply because he couldn’t, there wasn’t any fear I don’t know where you’re getting that from , canelo threw his counters and ggg kept his pressure on while landing and missing failing to adjust to some of canelos movements throughout the fight . That’s part of the reason myself and lot of pundits and experts sAw ggg winning since he applied his pressure effectively even though he didn’t get the ko ( you can apply pressure effectively and not get a ko) now canelo also did his thing with his boxing and counters and that’s also part of the reason the fight was closer than many thought.
Like I said earlier I think canelo edges him this time, ggg is clearly past it and he fails to adjust sometimes I hope he proves me wrong since I think canelo is a cheater and I would hate it if he won but yea that’s my point.
Fighters are trained to not show they got hurt and stung and not throw in the wind, when someone can hurt them badly.
GGG M.O. is seek and destroy everyone and stop them, while doing it Mexican style, taking constant punches and smiling.
There's two fighters GGG didn't do this to, Jacobs and Canelo, Jacobs because he hits like a truck and stung GGG and Canelo because he's got 34 ko"s and also hits like a truck and stung GGG, everyone else got run over giving GGG the knockout record of over 20 fights in a row with a knockout, 23 i believe, this means Canelo can take his power and stung him, actually hurting him.
You might not believe it but from watching fights for over 30 years i probably can see when someone gets rocked and so did HBO and others, but i am not going to argue if everyone thinks GGG got hurt or not.
Don't be surprised if GGG really gets rocked this time and goes down, you will say this was due to age and i will say it was due to Canelo landing a cleaner harder combination of punches, because this happened with Ward and Kovalev.
Ward hurt Kovalev in their first fight because champions on that level can hurt each other but most shake their heads and hide it, but in fight two, Ward landed a cleaner harder punch and wobbled Kovalev, then stopping him.
At the champions level, even the light punchers can hurt you, it's just fighters hide this and tell everyone, i wasn't hurt and then they get knocked out cold, just like Chavez sr and his chin and getting knocked down.
Now GGG is saying he was really injured and that's why he didn't stop Canelo and everyone including Teddy Atlas is claiming Canelo has been cheating the whole time including the last fight and now he's clean and looks smaller, this should mean GGG should run over him now and end it early, but you watch it will be the same fight with Canelo doing more and getting the win.
But if i am wrong then i am wrong and it won't be the first time, i just believe Canelo knows GGG isn't a monster and Floyd gave him more trouble due to skills and accuracy, stinging him more and he's thinking i let the first fight get away.
Also Teddy is picking Canelo, even when he's saying Canelo cheated and looks smaller, go figure, he's seeing everything i am, Canelo can take GGG power and out box him, if he's more busy, i don't think this will be due to age just skills, unless GGG looks terrible and gets stopped easily, then keeps getting knocked out, then he's proven old, but if he's just out boxed then no, not past prime just yet, but this will be the excuse.