By Craig Daly: Vasyl Lomachenko suspects that Gennadiy Golovkin fought Canelo Alvarez with a “health” issue in his right hand last Saturday because he ONLY used his left hand during the 12-round fight at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
To be sure, the 40-year-old Golovkin (42-2-1, 37 KOs) was pretty much only using his left hand, even as he began to recover in the eighth round.
In the championship rounds, Golovkin appeared to be using only his left hand for his power shots. Occasionally, Golovkin would throw a right hand, but it wasn’t like he normally fights.
Golovkin has always been a great right-handed puncher, but for some reason he didn’t use this dangerous weapon against Canelo, which could suggest he was injured.
Without his main weapon, Golokin didn’t stand a chance against undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo because he wasn’t going to beat him with a jab or throwing left hooks.
Although Golovkin appeared to stun Canelo with a left hand in the ninth, he couldn’t continue to try to finish him off because he wasn’t using his right hand.
“It was a very interesting fight, but I think GGG has a problem with his health, because he only worked the whole fight with his left hand,” Vasyl Lomachenko told KO Artist Sports after Gennadiy Golovkin’s loss to Canelo Alvarez on Saturday. past.
Lomachenko might be right about Golovkin having a hand injury. Why else wouldn’t he have used that hand during the fight?
After this performance, Lomachenko said that Golovkin could “retire” from the sport. He doesn’t know what Golovkin can do, but if this is how he’s going to fight in the future, hanging up the gloves might be a good move.
“Look, I don’t know; nobody knows. It’s boxing,” Lomachenko said when asked if he expected more from Golovkin. “Before the fight, you think about the fighters’ strategy, but during a fight, everything changes; Everything happens
“It will be very interesting,” Lomachenko said when asked about a rematch between Canelo and WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol. “I think Canelo needs this.”
