Gennady Golovkin - Triple G (Impossible Power and Will) — Transcript
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- 0:00i don't mean stylistically or in terms
- 0:03of the mental makeup or anything like
- 0:04that but just in terms of the reaction
- 0:07guys have to golovkin's punches he's
- 0:09like a middleweight mike tyson
- 0:13golovkin was born with the gift of power
- 0:18[Applause]
- 0:22a kill switch capable of turning out the
- 0:25lights
- 0:26at any moment gennady can
- 0:30i should say golovkin of kazakhstan the
- 0:33most rapidly burgeoning star
- 0:35profile in boxing at this moment rising
- 0:38from an obscure corner of the map
- 0:41gennady golovkin grew up in the remains
- 0:43of post-soviet kazakhstan
- 0:46his two older brothers would have him
- 0:48start random street fights with
- 0:49strangers
- 0:50to make him tougher sort of like fight
- 0:53club you're gonna go out
- 0:54you're gonna start a fight with the
- 0:55total strength and you're going to lose
- 0:58tragically both older brothers would die
- 1:01while in the army
- 1:04gennady would use the tragedy as fuel
- 1:08golovkin's amateur records 345 wins
- 1:13five losses golovkin won a silver medal
- 1:17at 165 pounds
- 1:19in the athens olympics and then he goes
- 1:21in the pros and these guys
- 1:22just can't compete with him because he's
- 1:24ready he's so ready he's just
- 1:26such another level his his technique is
- 1:29so
- 1:29sharp and on top of that he gets just
- 1:32this stupid punching power that
- 1:33everybody's terrified
- 1:42you're watching what most consider the
- 1:44best kept secret in boxing with little
- 1:45professional boxing opportunities in his
- 1:48homeland
- 1:49gennady moved to germany to begin his
- 1:51professional career
- 1:53no but you know he's from his just his
- 1:55tremendous amateur pedigree body
- 1:57punching has also been known to be
- 1:58devastated
- 1:59[Applause]
- 2:05if you give golovkin an opening what we
- 2:08do know and what we've seen is that he
- 2:10is
- 2:10so heavy-handed known for his
- 2:13devastating knockouts in the rings
- 2:24golovkin comes to knock you out and so
- 2:28far
- 2:28as an amateur and as a pro he's almost
- 2:31always done it he boasts a knockout
- 2:33ratio of nearly
- 2:3590 percent
- 2:39solofin with five first-round knockouts
- 2:41in his career
- 2:43[Applause]
- 2:49and that starts with the feet a lot of
- 2:50times when you see a puncture like
- 2:52golovkin
- 2:53everybody focuses on the upper body but
- 2:54i watch the feet he's always in position
- 2:57and you can see by the way he's stalking
- 2:58he knows that one punctual could
- 3:00possibly end his fighting
- 3:01and that's what he's looking for
- 3:07with triple g seemingly any punch could
- 3:10be
- 3:10the punch that ends it all
- 3:20[Applause]
- 3:22so it's kenati kanatovic golovkin
- 3:25golovkin is a precision knockout artist
- 3:29he stormed through his division rattling
- 3:32off 16
- 3:33wins not only heavy-handed he's skillful
- 3:37and precise
- 3:38crowd who's an odds as the body shot 13
- 3:41by way of knockout i thought he was the
- 3:44best value for your entertainment
- 3:46dollar in the entire world back then
- 3:49in his 17th fight he would set aim on
- 3:52capturing his first
- 3:53belt in the gym as an amateur or as a
- 3:56pro i asked him what's the worst he's
- 3:58ever been hurt and he couldn't answer
- 3:59the question
- 4:00he's never been hurt maybe maybe he
- 4:02hasn't
- 4:03golovkin such a beautifully balanced
- 4:05fighter already on the front foot and
- 4:07his jab is
- 4:08much underrated it's not just about the
- 4:10power with him
- 4:11he's got a dancer's feet as well
- 4:14[Applause]
- 4:17very critical isn't he doesn't waste a
- 4:19punch at all and everyone look at that
- 4:21the pinpoint accuracy and the power as
- 4:23well you know
- 4:24check out this blistering combination
- 4:35there's a cerebral precision about it
- 4:37he's a thinking fighter
- 4:38it doesn't waste anything he was
- 4:40becoming that kind of a
- 4:42boogie man that oh man did you see that
- 4:44russian kid
- 4:45and wood just got around
- 4:53[Music]
- 4:55golovkin finds that looping right hand
- 4:57does get
- 4:58to the target the most feared fighter in
- 5:01boxing
- 5:02triple g gennady gennady golovkin
- 5:06takes on his most formidable challenger
- 5:09to date
- 5:10[Applause]
- 5:12[Music]
- 5:16he was now the wbo intercontinental
- 5:19middleweight
- 5:20champion next
- 5:23you would get a shot at the interim wba
- 5:25world middleweight title
- 5:37the fight lasted for about a half a
- 5:40round
- 5:45not only is he lovely outside the ring
- 5:47he is devastating
- 5:49inside it at one point he held a
- 5:5223-fight ko streak
- 5:54all coming against top 10 ranked
- 5:56opponents
- 5:57and title holders that's really the
- 5:59mystique
- 6:00that uh gennady brings to the ring is
- 6:02people know how big he can
- 6:05the way punch knocks people out these
- 6:08iconic
- 6:09knockouts these indelible images of
- 6:11violence
- 6:12he's amazing
- 6:16[Applause]
- 6:18as his rampage through the division
- 6:20continued
- 6:21triple g collected another belt
- 6:24we saw just saw mike tyson what mike
- 6:27tyson once did
- 6:28what as you mentioned jim manny pacquiao
- 6:30once did what roberto duran once did
- 6:33not only be an exciting attacking
- 6:35fighter but be the
- 6:36baddest man on the planet the left hook
- 6:38that he
- 6:39won his last fight with was one of the
- 6:42outstanding punches that you'd see
- 6:44any time yet another first round
- 6:52[Applause]
- 7:00and it just looked momentarily when that
- 7:02right hand stiffers and another one now
- 7:07are you okay i can tell you the absence
- 7:09of that it is no
- 7:11i think the referee could easily be
- 7:12stopping this right here and now i don't
- 7:14think we need to see too much
- 7:16more and gennady gennady golovkin has
- 7:19simply steamrolled his japanese
- 7:21challenger last fighter to arouse the
- 7:23passion of boxing fans with a knockout
- 7:25streak like golovkins
- 7:27was more than 25 years ago when mike
- 7:29tyson began his career with 17 straight
- 7:31knockouts and
- 7:32though the western world knew little
- 7:34about him those in the know
- 7:36were beginning to compare his power to
- 7:39mike tyson
- 7:40at the age of 30 only now making his
- 7:43american
- 7:44tv debut he not only has to win but has
- 7:46to win
- 7:47big tired of languishing in obscurity
- 7:50triple g
- 7:50hired a new trainer and headed to the
- 7:53united
- 7:54states middleweight champion of the
- 7:56world cannot
- 7:59go lufthan
- 8:03rocks are feeling the power of golovkin
- 8:22five six
- 8:25[Music]
- 8:25[Applause]
- 8:32in his entire career
- 8:53tonight i think he could have given a
- 8:55lot of middleweights in the world run
- 8:57based on what i saw he was no match for
- 9:00gennady golovkin
- 9:06two days before his next fight gennady
- 9:09came down with the flu
- 9:11starting on wednesday you know he
- 9:12started uh not feeling well
- 9:14throat was getting scratchy he was
- 9:15getting congested and then by thursday
- 9:18it got a lot worse despite the illness
- 9:21triple g
- 9:22didn't miss a beating
- 9:25wba ibo middleweight
- 9:29champion of the world the kazakh ko king
- 9:34gennady
- 9:37[Applause]
- 9:40[Music]
- 9:41gennady utilized his thunderous jab to
- 9:44methodically
- 9:45beat down
- 9:49he hits rosado hard enough for those
- 9:50short punches to open up a cut
- 9:54basically any jab thrown by him is a
- 9:56power jab he throws everything hard
- 10:02rosado bleeding along the left eye
- 10:05blood from his nose mouth is swollen
- 10:10[Music]
- 10:14oh good right hand on the uppercut rock
- 10:17backwards
- 10:19what point do you maybe have to stop
- 10:21this look at the blood bloodying him
- 10:23more and more
- 10:26she know i got to stop it until
- 10:29eventually
- 10:30his corner threw in the towel the corner
- 10:33they're going to stop it the corner of
- 10:35rosado stopping it
- 10:36[Applause]
- 10:40[Music]
- 10:43well his trainer abel sanchez when they
- 10:46work in big berry says i gotta bring in
- 10:47all big guys to work with him roy
- 10:50cause he doesn't feel threatened by
- 10:52anybody his side triple g
- 10:54trains at 7 000 feet above sea level
- 10:58his relentless training sessions are a
- 11:00thing of legend
- 11:01in the fight world
- 11:08[Music]
- 11:10the boogie man of the sport right now
- 11:11this guy is the most feared man in
- 11:13boxing
- 11:14it's not enough to just have power you
- 11:16gotta have more than that you gotta put
- 11:17it all together the lobster puts it
- 11:18together he has the right approach
- 11:24it's not enough to just have power
- 11:25ernie's shavers had great value never
- 11:27won a world title
- 11:31he's not just a puncher he knows how to
- 11:34punch
- 11:34the technique and the mechanics is there
- 11:37not just the power it's the way he uses
- 11:38it
- 11:39here this level gennady this little
- 11:43i'm not machine
- 11:59first round boy he's throwing
- 12:03a jab that's landing like a right hand
- 12:05but he's not off balance when he's
- 12:07throwing it
- 12:16[Music]
- 12:22is
- 12:24just keeps coming
- 12:27like some sort of eastern block
- 12:29terminator hasta la vista
- 12:36baby
- 12:37[Applause]
- 12:4913 knockouts in a row
- 12:52his reign of terror continued he's the
- 12:55first guy to come along since
- 12:57mike tyson where his trainer is explicit
- 13:01he walked into the gym i saw a guy who
- 13:04could be a sensational action
- 13:06come forward knockout machine we've
- 13:09trained to be
- 13:10just that and then he goes out and does
- 13:12it 13
- 13:13straight knockouts
- 13:23a crippling body shot folded macklin
- 13:27like a lawn chair and that'll be the
- 13:3014th consecutive knockout for gennady
- 13:32golovkin it comes in the third round
- 13:35what we just saw was not ordinary it was
- 13:38extraordinary
- 13:39that kind of punching power
- 13:41[Music]
- 13:45uh curtis stevens talked his way into
- 13:46this fight with a lot of big talk
- 13:48and has tried to get under gennady
- 13:50golovkin skin but one point
- 13:51that he made to us yesterday face to
- 13:53face is hey i'm a guy who used to fight
- 13:55as a light heavyweight
- 13:56i've come down 15 pounds in weight
- 13:59that's why i'm such a massive puncher
- 14:01in the middleweight division and
- 14:03golovkin hasn't seen anybody like me
- 14:05obviously i've been calling him out you
- 14:06know i'm gonna go in here do what i do
- 14:08i'll show everybody that
- 14:10he's not like that he's not like that
- 14:12he's overrated i'm gonna go in there and
- 14:13demolish his eyes
- 14:15almost no one thinks this fight is going
- 14:17the distance
- 14:18what avenue are we about to take
- 14:20[Applause]
- 14:25right here
- 14:32[Applause]
- 14:32[Music]
- 14:34the look on stephen's face there says a
- 14:36thousand words
- 14:38that was a face that said wow curtis
- 14:41stephen's mom
- 14:42tanya against curtis stevens
- 14:46triple g beat him so badly his mother
- 14:49had to exit the arena
- 14:56mid-fight
- 14:59and you can't play because no mother
- 15:00wants to watch their son
- 15:02take punishment like that
- 15:04[Applause]
- 15:06and they're gonna stop it in the corner
- 15:09that's a great stoppage andre rozier
- 15:13[Applause]
- 15:15gennady golovkin maybe the best
- 15:17middleweight in the world i mean you
- 15:19hear the rumors out of the gyms you see
- 15:20the record you know the amateur pedigree
- 15:22he's certainly the most avoided
- 15:24middleweight
- 15:31triple g was finally being recognized as
- 15:34the greatest show in the sport
- 15:38gennady golovkin or triple g as he's
- 15:41known
- 15:42is the hardcore fight fans favorite
- 15:45fighter
- 15:45because every time they see him he's
- 15:47knocking someone out
- 15:57but that's a bazooka yeah that golovkin
- 16:00is throwing
- 16:10[Applause]
- 16:12[Music]
- 16:15[Applause]
- 16:19and it's a third round knockout that was
- 16:22smart by deal he saw he had no balance
- 16:25the contest had already been decided he
- 16:28would now contend for the wba super
- 16:30middleweight title
- 16:32gennady going to dive in golovkin
- 16:34rapidly gaining recognition
- 16:36as among the best of the best in this
- 16:38sport his ascension to the top
- 16:40is the realization of victory the best
- 16:42guys that would get in the ring with him
- 16:44he's either met expectations or exceeded
- 16:48them
- 16:48every time out you ready this might be
- 16:51his biggest fight so far could he do it
- 16:53again
- 16:55350 amateur fights 30 pro fights never
- 16:58knocked down
- 16:5918 knockouts in a row highest knockout
- 17:02percentage of any middleweight titleist
- 17:04in history ggg with a
- 17:0816 to 10 and edge in power shots
- 17:12just on you like almost like
- 17:16so predator-like see how he varies here
- 17:19at work
- 17:21look at how he adjusted on the left hook
- 17:24over rubio's guards
- 17:32[Applause]
- 17:42it's always just a matter of time
- 17:46[Applause]
- 17:57after making quick work of marco antonio
- 18:00rubio
- 18:01triple g would go 11 rounds with martin
- 18:04murray
- 18:06[Applause]
- 18:12so the moment of truth then and now
- 18:14martin murray
- 18:15is going to find out if he can handle
- 18:18gennady golovkin
- 18:25again throwing from all sorts of angles
- 18:35[Applause]
- 18:45[Music]
- 18:49[Applause]
- 18:54to his feet
- 19:04[Applause]
- 19:06will remain world champion
- 19:12[Applause]
- 19:14next he would be pitted against another
- 19:17knockout artist
- 19:18in willie monroe jr can he be the one to
- 19:21go the distance
- 19:22and snap the 20 fight knockout streak
- 19:25cause i'm a karate man
- 19:26all right correct man rude on the inside
- 19:29[Applause]
- 19:31and already early on here he has shown
- 19:34that he can in fact
- 19:35track monroe and corners from time to
- 19:37time
- 19:39[Music]
- 19:47[Applause]
- 20:00once again traps monroe in the corner my
- 20:03most deal really on his feet
- 20:08and if you've ever heard the phrase
- 20:09heavy hands heavy hands
- 20:11means that the punch doesn't have to
- 20:13look spectacular to hurt you
- 20:15gennady golovkin is a classic case of
- 20:18heavy hands
- 20:18yes he is oh
- 20:30monroe again yeah
- 20:38[Music]
- 20:45he's out of here
- 20:48there were two knockdowns in the second
- 20:50round and now he knocks him down for the
- 20:51third time
- 20:52nine ten you just beat it
- 20:56you just beat it you gotta move faster
- 21:03[Applause]
- 21:08[Music]
- 21:14challenger to date the dangerous
- 21:17rising action star out of canada david
- 21:20lemieux
- 21:24sold out madison square garden triple
- 21:27g's debut on pay-per-view
- 21:29middleweight title on the line two
- 21:32monster punchers
- 21:33it just doesn't get any better and this
- 21:36crowd is excited
- 21:38they're cheering everything he sold out
- 21:42madison square garden in his next outing
- 21:44everybody talks about golovkin's power
- 21:46punching
- 21:47he lands more jabs per round than any
- 21:50top fighter in the sport
- 21:51look at the jab and the accuracy with
- 21:54which golovkin is landing it
- 21:55he's working it and he's getting
- 22:04utilizing the jab
- 22:05[Applause]
- 22:07and talk about getting it there was the
- 22:10left hook
- 22:10and lemieux is hurt and here goes
- 22:13golovkin
- 22:15slowly breaking his opponent's will
- 22:23[Applause]
- 22:30steve willis is going to stop the fight
- 22:34technical knockout for golovkin in the
- 22:36eighth max kellerman your final
- 22:38impressions on gennady golovkin's as you
- 22:40said
- 22:40systematic beatdown of david lemieux
- 22:42yeah there hasn't been a a
- 22:44long reigning aggressive knockout artist
- 22:47middleweight champion in 30 years not
- 22:49since marvelous marvin hagler
- 23:02guys when was the last time a fighter
- 23:06a champion so consistently delivered
- 23:10this kind of violence and these kind of
- 23:12knockouts
- 23:13fight after fight after fight go ahead
- 23:16say it
- 23:16the answer is mike tyson boom perfect
- 23:20timing
- 23:31piston-like jab a looping right hook
- 23:36[Applause]
- 23:41another knockout
- 23:45his next fight against kell brook sold
- 23:48out
- 23:49in nine minutes 35 professional
- 23:51victories
- 23:5232 knockouts 22 straight wins
- 23:55inside the distance this is what boxing
- 23:58and sport
- 23:59is all about
- 24:04undefeated fighters golovkin triple g
- 24:08is the hottest fighter in boxing with 22
- 24:11consecutive knockouts
- 24:12heading into the september 10 fight
- 24:15inani beat brook
- 24:16so thoroughly his corner threw in the
- 24:19towel
- 24:20in the fifth round in the far corner
- 24:24is holding up a towel engel is trying to
- 24:27get referee marlon right
- 24:28to stop the fight and now he finally
- 24:30throws the towel into the ring
- 24:32and gennady golovkin is going to have a
- 24:34technical knockout victory
- 24:35in round number five
- 24:42and that's an amazing decision on the
- 24:43part of dominick engel
- 24:48before he faced daniel jacobs golovkin
- 24:51had stopped
- 24:5123 consecutive opponents welcome
- 24:55your timing is perfect if somebody got
- 24:58knocked out of your brackets
- 25:00don't worry there'll be another knockout
- 25:02coming very soon
- 25:03in the estimate of most people that's
- 25:07the golovkin style that makes it so
- 25:08exciting man that's why mexican fighters
- 25:10love him
- 25:16[Applause]
- 25:24actually lands more jabs than anybody in
- 25:27boxing
- 25:28against daniel jacobs gennady's knockout
- 25:31streak
- 25:31would come to an end
- 25:36in his prime triple g struggled to get
- 25:38any top contenders to step in the ring
- 25:40with him
- 25:41knowing his power could end their career
- 25:43they avoided him like the plague
- 25:45long-awaited showdown between already
- 25:48legendary knockout artist
- 25:50gennady golovkin of kazakhstan and
- 25:52consummate boxer punter
- 25:54canelo alvarez of mexico it's the most
- 25:57compelling style match up in boxing
- 25:59in several years triple g canelo this
- 26:02weekend finally
- 26:03the super fight yep the mega fight yeah
- 26:05he would face canelo alvarez in a huge
- 26:08matchup between two of the best in the
- 26:10sport
- 26:11the fight was everything fans hoped
- 26:20two masters of their craft battling back
- 26:23and forth
- 26:24many of history's greatest fighters have
- 26:26warned the crown of this division
- 26:30if golovkin didn't win by some
- 26:33ungodly lopsided beatdown
- 26:36that he could lose a decision because of
- 26:38corruption he goes because that's how
- 26:40boxing rolls
- 26:41and there's way more money in canelo
- 26:43winning
- 26:48canelo shakes his head that usually
- 26:50means he got hit
- 26:54i think in the last two rounds it
- 26:56started to resemble more of a triple g
- 26:58type of fight
- 27:01knocking canelo back with the right hand
- 27:0458 56 gennady golovkin
- 27:08for sure glove again for sure right
- 27:10unless there's unless there's corruption
- 27:13crazy i doubt it but as the fight went
- 27:15on
- 27:16it became clear to most that triple g
- 27:18was winning
- 27:20the unofficial scorecard guy had it for
- 27:23golovkin by several rounds
- 27:24we think it was golovkin clearly
- 27:26although canelo fought a great fight
- 27:34was the clear and decisive winner but
- 27:37canelo
- 27:38was given the draw
- 27:43a three-way split this
- 27:46is officially a draw no way that you see
- 27:49118 to 110 for canelo
- 27:53and you say well it's just a mistake one
- 27:56more
- 27:56in a long list of corrupt boxing
- 28:00decisions
- 28:02make some noise
- 28:16they talked about it now it's time to be
- 28:18about it that's canelo alvarez good
- 28:20night golovkin
- 28:21get ready to go in the ring in the arena
- 28:25[Music]
- 28:28the rematch was another battle this one
- 28:31closer than the first fight
- 28:41most had the fight going for triple g or
- 28:44perhaps another draw
- 28:59boom perfect timing
- 29:11[Music]
- 29:21[Applause]
- 29:24115
- 29:28but it wouldn't be boxing without
- 29:30highway
- 29:31robbery from the refs
- 29:42gennady received his first loss
- 29:49at age 38 perhaps his best days are
- 29:52behind him but what he did during his
- 29:55reign atop the boxing world
- 29:57was astonishing
- 30:09for an improbable boxing run
- 30:13that would see him become the most
- 30:15feared middleweight
- 30:17on the planet
- 30:26nobody brings it home like it's nobody
- 30:31make it
- 30:39you
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