Quote Originally Posted by wanderingfighter View Post
I usually try to stay away from this "who do think won" questions due to the fact that most people are influenced by other factors in this type of sport.

But GGG...


Was fighting a man that was much bigger than him on fight night. (Weight and size advantages have impact at the highest levels of the sport. It's possible for an average skilled fighter to be beat a very good skilled fighter based on weight and size alone. Think about that and let it sink for a minute)
Out-landed the other fighter. (It's a sport measured by punches after all)
Got a knock down. (Knockdowns and making your opponent retreat is part of controlling the frame)
Made the other guy fight his fight. (This is what controlling the frame is all about)

I can see how you can give the fight to Jacobs though. We all see things through different glasses. I favor certain things when watching fights and you probably do too.
a) Jacobs made the weigh in weight, so I don't see this as an argument. He didn't meet the rehydration clause, but so what? They shouldn't have had the weigh in so early. You have a general idea how big your opponent will be come fight night and it is what it is. No plus points for fighting a bigger man on the score cards.

b) Compubox is something many debate the merits of. All you can do is score the fight the best you can on a round by round basis. On my viewing there were no punch stats and on that basis nothing to be influenced by either. In the rounds Golovkin won convincingly such as the KD round, I imagine the punch stats would have been quite wide. Rounds are not won by just outlanding an opponent. That's the amateurs. My first instinct is that those numbers sound dodgy.

c) True, Golovkin scored a KD. Won that round by 2 points as a result.

d) I am not sure that this is true. Golovkin was made to look a bit like Provodnikov at times. He was coming forwards, but not working and getting tied up very easily down the stretch. Jacobs was dictating the terms of the fight by that stage. At times GGG was using the jab well and doing damage with combinations, but for stretches of the fight he looked very pedestrian and gave rounds away through inactivity.

GGG is very good, but I think Jacobs showed that he is very good too but has a better plan B and C.