"7/26: HBO Boxing - GGG vs. Geale/Jennings vs Perez "
GGG....duh. although Geale is supposedly game. idk shit about him.
this will be in the main room at MSG. trying to make it GGG's home base. promoters anticipated 9k tickets sold. as of yesterday it was about 5k. i recvd an email from ticketmaster last week for 25% off tix. guess that should have been a good indicator of slow sales.
idk much about Jennings and Perez either. although i don't believe Perez looked that great in his last outing from what i remember about that fight.
Jennings UD.
Weights From NYC: Golovkin 159.8 Lb., Geale 159.2 Lb. Posted by: Jake Donovan on 7/25/2014 .
By Jake Donovan
Gennady Golovkin and Daniel Geale are set for their anticipated middleweight clash Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The bout airs live on HBO.
Golovkin (29-0, 26KOs) came in at 159.8 lb. for the 11th defense of his middeweight title. Geale (30-2, 16KOs), a former middleweight titlist, was slightly lighter at 159.2 lb.
In the televised co-feature, unbeaten heavyweights Bryant Jennings and Mike Perez collide in a bout to determine who will go on to face the winner of the forthcoming heavyweight title fight between tilist Bermane Stiverne and undefeated mandatory challenger Deontay Wilder.
Perez (20-0-1, 12KOs) weighed 242.2 lb., his heaviest weight in nearly three years. Jennings (18-0, 10KOs) came in at a chiseled 222.6 lb., his lightest weight since weighing 219.5 lb. for a 9th round stoppage of former heavyweight champ Siarhei Liakhovich more than two years ago.
The bout marks Jennings' second straight HBO appearance against an unbeaten heavyweight. Perez will fight on HBO for the third consecutive time.
i hope he does. ggg is a monster. although he hasn't been in with an elite yet. i don't have any doubt about ggg's power and stamina. don't know about his ring IQ yet.
ggg may in fact get the best of cotto if they were to fight. but the majority of fans, analysts, etc said that martinez at 70% would beat the shit out of cotto (partially bcuz cotto was "done").
i think cotto 2.0 can hang with ggg. maybe if he fights and beats canelo at 154 in may, he can defend the middleweight title next fall vs ggg.
7. "Bad point deduction, but IMO Jennings won" In response to Reply # 0
Had it 7-5. But I might have been skewed because I hate that leaning/holding shit and probably gave Jennings a couple of close round as a result. And I thought Perez lost to Takam anyway. But the gripe with the ref was legit. A draw would have been perfectly fair.
10. "I hate to criticize Lampley and Kellerman" In response to Reply # 0
Because they are generally great. But when they collectively fall in love with the fighter, they get so damn biased, including in their silences at convenient times.
19. "jennings should be smashing perez." In response to Reply # 0
he just gotta keep boxing, especially with the body shots. he's the more skillful fighter and should be better with the fatigue as the fight progresses.
21. "thing about GGG is..." In response to Reply # 0
for one his jab is constant...he's landing it...... and he's following all of his offense from it.... when you have a jab like that....you can keep your opponent off of you...you keep him at the range of power punches..
that ko was devastating...he took one to the face but because he's always in a position to square up on you when the exchanges come...he drops dude..
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31. "i don't think peter quillin is ready for GGG i was at the Rosado fight " In response to Reply # 0 Mon Jul-28-14 04:31 PM by JAESCOTT777
and Rosado was giving him problems, I (along with half the puerto ricans of North Philly that where in the house) felt Rosado was played and was def at least close to a tie at the time of the stoppage
i love Rosado but he isn't even close to being in GGG's class and if Peter is legit he can't be in close fights with Rosado.
totally random our seats where actually next to peter quillin's inlaws it was pretty cool. it was the undercard of Hopkins/murat
i would love to see GGG vs Ward or Froch I'm just not sure he is big enough wouldn't be mad at a kid chocolate matchup tho
don't know how i would feel with a cotto match though
32. "You know what I'd watch? And I know this sounds ridiculous..." In response to Reply # 31
and would probably result in early devastation...but I'd watch Golovkin-Lemieux. Lemieux's the only guy that at least has the power to match Golovkin. If he continues to get back on track after those early setbacks and get his mojo back, I'd be on board for Golovkin-Lemieux in 2015.
If Soliman is next, that's okay...It'll be Proksa all over again, but I like Soliman so I don't mind him at least getting a shot to use that herky jerky shit on Golovkin before he gets splattered.
35. "Haymon ain't allowing that unfortunately " In response to Reply # 31
haymon does allow his fighters to beat up on each other though, since he gets paid off that so i'd like to see maybe one of the charlo brothers in there with quillen in the future
36. "LOL, Peter Quillin's in-laws as in the Berger family?" In response to Reply # 31
Or wait, there might be two sets of in-laws since I think there was a divorce in there somewhere.
Anyway, I grew up in same suburban Philly South Jersey town as his wife Allie and his brother-in-law Jordan who graduated with my sister, actually met Peter Quillin last year in LA thru his wife the weekend they got engaged while I was out at a show with one of her best girlfriends from home.
Think by now they're already married with a baby even tho that was only like March of last year when they had just gotten engaged.
Quillin in the hour or so I was hanging by the bar with him (he of course wasn't drinking) came off like a really good dude, he seemed a little shocked I knew who he was (we were at a Charles Wright & Watts 103rd Street Bamd show at The Mint on Pico in West LA so I guess it wasn't a real boxing head spot).
But got into talking about him making Barclay's his home base and whatnot.
I'd go to see him fight GGG if that fight happened in LV or BK but honestly I'd be worried about the outcome for Kid Chocolate for all the reasons you just mentioned above.
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