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09-04-2013, 06:18 PM
http://i0.wp.com/www.boxingnews24.com/wp-content/uploads/golovkin456.jpg?resize=0%2C0By Eric Thomas: Curtis Stevens (25-3, 18 KO’s) rates his own better than that of WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (27-0, 24 KO’s), who Stevens rates as having slow hand speed because of his habit of loading up so much with his power shots.
Stevens expects to knockout Golovkin once he hits him in the head in their fight on HBO in 2 months on November 2nd at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.
Stevens said to RingTV (http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/180613-stevens-on-golovkin-why-are-his-punches-so-slow-) “Once I touch that head, then it’s over…When he was fighting [Matthew] Macklin, I was sitting there watching it, and I’m like, ‘Why are his punches so slow?’…I don’t think he has that one punch knockout power…I have one-punch knockout power. I guess all of them can knock out people, but I have that one-punch knockout power.”
Stevens hits hard, but there has been plenty of his opponents that have been able to take his power and either survive to beat him or survive to make it the full distance.
It’s true Golovkin doesn’t have one-punch knockout power, but he hits so hard with every shot that he makes up for it. He bludgeons his opponents into submission slowly. Sometimes he can get a sudden one-punch knockout win like in his fight against Macklin or his bout against Nobuhiro Ishida, but mostly he’s a fighter that takes his time before stopping his opponents.
Stevens needs to work on some other parts of his game, because if Golovkin decides that he wants to box his way to a decision instead of slugging it out, the 5’7’ Stevens could be trouble because he’s a lot shorter than the 5’10” Golovkin, and he could find himself getting out-boxed like he was in his losses to Andre Dirrell and Jesse Brinkley. Stevens needs a backup plan to use in case Golovkin chooses to box him rather than slugging it out on November 2nd.
As hard as Stevens hits, he’s never knocked out a quality fighter before. All of his knockouts have come against 2nd and 3rd tier opposition. This is why you have to take what he says about his own power with a grain of salt, because he’s never proven in the past that he can KO good opposition. Stevens loses to good opposition, and now he’s about to face the best opponent of his career.
Stevens expects to knockout Golovkin once he hits him in the head in their fight on HBO in 2 months on November 2nd at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.
Stevens said to RingTV (http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/180613-stevens-on-golovkin-why-are-his-punches-so-slow-) “Once I touch that head, then it’s over…When he was fighting [Matthew] Macklin, I was sitting there watching it, and I’m like, ‘Why are his punches so slow?’…I don’t think he has that one punch knockout power…I have one-punch knockout power. I guess all of them can knock out people, but I have that one-punch knockout power.”
Stevens hits hard, but there has been plenty of his opponents that have been able to take his power and either survive to beat him or survive to make it the full distance.
It’s true Golovkin doesn’t have one-punch knockout power, but he hits so hard with every shot that he makes up for it. He bludgeons his opponents into submission slowly. Sometimes he can get a sudden one-punch knockout win like in his fight against Macklin or his bout against Nobuhiro Ishida, but mostly he’s a fighter that takes his time before stopping his opponents.
Stevens needs to work on some other parts of his game, because if Golovkin decides that he wants to box his way to a decision instead of slugging it out, the 5’7’ Stevens could be trouble because he’s a lot shorter than the 5’10” Golovkin, and he could find himself getting out-boxed like he was in his losses to Andre Dirrell and Jesse Brinkley. Stevens needs a backup plan to use in case Golovkin chooses to box him rather than slugging it out on November 2nd.
As hard as Stevens hits, he’s never knocked out a quality fighter before. All of his knockouts have come against 2nd and 3rd tier opposition. This is why you have to take what he says about his own power with a grain of salt, because he’s never proven in the past that he can KO good opposition. Stevens loses to good opposition, and now he’s about to face the best opponent of his career.