Gennadiy Golovkin Denies Ever Being Hurt During Career

Gennadiy Golovkin denied that he’d ever been hurt in a fight when asked that questioning during Monday’s press conference

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For boxing fans that have followed Golovkin’s sixteen-year professional career

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it was surprising that he would fail to media his fights where he was clearly hurt against Canelo

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Sergiy Derevyanchenko, and Ryota Murata and Kassim Ouma.

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Golovkin’s ability to take shots to the head is second to none

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But he’s shown himself to be vulnerable when getting hit to the body, which we’ve seen repeatedly during his career.

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With Golovkin’s important third and likely final fight with Canelo coming up on September 17th

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You can maybe understand why he’d not want to admit to the media that he’d been hurt a number of times during his career

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Because they would have surely asked him which type of punches did the damage.

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There’s no point in Golovkin being secretive about being hurt because it’s already common knowledge, and both Canelo and his trainer Eddy Reynoso are aware of those.

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