
Originally Posted by
ross
You can only judge a fighter on his fights but it's not realistic to judge Jr on the Saunders fight the same as its not realistic to judge this Klitschko against the one that Purrity and Brewster beat and so many other examples.
Jr had only ever gone 8 rounds against mediocre opposition. He jumped in with the British, European and commonwealth champ who had done 12 a few times. That was a mistake. Jr needed to feel that distance before a title challenge or at least be tested against a hard old campaigner. To go from being an almost novice to giving Saunders his hardest fight and only losing on a split shows how good he could be. When he started turning it up Saunders couldn't cope and the ref kept him in the fight at one point in the last round I think.
Jrs fitness and stamina are unbelievable and he will give anyone a tough fight. He will give Golovkin more problems than he's ever had to face and I think would beat him. He just needs some serious fights. Beating up Chudinov, Osullivan and Blackwell isn't good enough but who else is there. Prepare him for Golovkin? No one that would be willing to risk their standing without getting big money I'd bet.
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