and tbf I think there was times when dirrel through slaps and they were scored

Finessed Analyzer, you are probably used to pro scoring where they score Mayweather or Andre Ward slaps in order to help the hometown American star fighter win. In the amateurs I believe they actually go by the rule book, which says that the punch has to land with the knuckles to be a scoring blow. Dirrell slapped a lot and hit GGG on the side of the head. The one jab Teddy Atlas says landed and snapped GGG's head back, but didn't score, actually missed. It went by GGG's left ear and hit his head gear on the side. GGG's head snapped back and to the right from that impact to the headgear on the side, as well as his natural motion to avoid the jab. Don't be fooled by biased commentary. GGG on the other hand picked his moments better to throw real, hard, knuckle punches. _Clean_ and effective punches are what are _supposed_ to score the most in the pros, and what _do_ count in the amateurs. That was GGG all day. If you want a good parallel to this fight, check out Lomachenko vs Gary Russell. Russell was a little faster, like Dirrell, and threw lots of flashy combinations and arm punches, but the harder, better set-up, much cleaner punches were landed by Lomachenko almost every round. This fight between Dirrell and GGG was closer than that, because the speed disparity was much greater and Dirrell was much bigger, but it's still the same idea in effect. GGG was the rightful winner of this fight, in my opinion.

+PunchForPunch Well said my friend.WELL SAID!

Thank you! I appreciate it! By the way, what do you make of GGG in this fight vs the Canelo fight? Am I the only one who feels like GGG's reflexes have slowed significantly from the Dirrell fight in the amateurs to the Canelo fight now, or do you notice that as well?

Plus when you hit in a clinch, you don't get points

phantomelmisj Greatest amateur of all time, gots to be Teofilio Stevenson, 3 Olympic golds, should have won a 4th. Power, speed, slickness. I think he's a Muhamed Ali with more power, cuz he knocked out more guys in the amateurs than Ali did in the pros. History would have changed had he fought as a pro for sure.

TheAtheistReader Ward beats him. I really couldn't tell the difference between him and Dirrell and Teddy said they didn't score some blows for Dirrell. Amateur/Olympic style should favor Dirrell though so he has no one but himself to blame.

+TheAtheistReader I think GGG offers too much patience, timing and explosive punching for ward to deal with. Gennady can really step up the pace when he has to and that's what he would use to walk ward down to the ropes and body him.

TheAtheistReader, that's true, but GGG actually looked pretty fast in this fight. Now in 2017, 13 years later, when he is 35 years old, he does not look nearly as fast to me. But I agree, prime GGG, especially in the pros, would have been a problem for almost anyone, and his great performances in the amateurs, despite having the exact opposite style of what most succeeds in the amateurs, proves that. In fact I'm not sure how many other power punchers have been able to outbox the best fighters a weight class above them in the amateurs. It's very telling because as you said, the amateurs are suited to Dirrell's style, not GGG's, and yet GGG was able to beat Dirrell, a weight class above his own, at Dirrell's own game. Just imagine what it would have looked like in the pros, prime GGG against a middleweight Dirrell. Damn!

Direll got robbed smh , an Olympic robbery get me more pissed than a pro robbery. You weight 4 years for the tournament,and have to quilify also before to even go after chasing it your whole childhood them they rob you and it's all over. They gave credit to golovkin for throwing straights to the body but direll landing 3 punches at a time no credit smh

+brohoelikeacholo well said . .

+brohoelikeacholo well said . .

+brohoelikeacholo dirrell punches landed atleast 10x more then ggg 2nd rd didn't even count his lands thats crazy

There's a lot of punches that GGG landed also, that they didn't give him credit for. The announcers are pro American so they will keep in mind not to mention it. It has to be a solid punch, knuckles landing.

They robbed Direll plain and simple. But the olympics have a history of robbing blacks so it's no surprise. It's all good Andre, you're a world champ now and you beat cancer. You got the last laugh and came out the real winner.

Jersey'sOwn201 why bring race into it? you blacks all have a chip on your shoulder its soo boring now

1. Im not black, idiot. 2. It's a known fact multiple blacks have gotten robbed in the olympics. You yt trolls are such clowns.

Im not your son. I doubt any kid would wanna call an embarassment like you their parent. The only butt hurt ones are your disappointed parents kid.

Jersey'sOwn201 what a pathetic reply, you little mexican illegal alien trumps gonna kick you out hahaha

***** The thing is , GGG is not a big middleweight . He's pretty small actually . He could easily make 154 ,but 168 will be a serious challenge for him IMO . Most of those guys are considerably bigger than he is .

DoomCity202 I dont think its wise for him to go up. He should stay at Middleweight and unify all belts.

***** WARD HAS A FIGHT IN FIVE WEEKS. These Gaynady fangirls are so fkn scared of Ward. Ward approached Gaynady's promoter just this month at the #MayPac fight. Find the YT video before you respond.

***** Ok... you are in troll mode. You are clearly afraid of Gaynady facing Ward.I can understand why.

DoomCity202 GGG just weighed in at 165 a week before his fight. He was 170+ pounds for the 30-day weigh-in. Let's stop with the "GGG is so small" thing.. The only reason Golovkin is looking at fighting Welterweights like Floyd is for the money. The reality is that there are FAR more fights for Golovkin at 168/175: Golovkin/Ward. Golovkin/Stevenson Golovkin/Fonfara Golovkin/Chavez Golovkin/Kovalev Golovkin/Dirrell Can you name five equivalent fights for GGG at 160?

I doubt he would ko him in the pros its way different slowed down game not just tryna sore points by throwing punches other stuff play a bigger role

@@greg3173 Especially in the pros is where GGG would have the most chances to KO him, because there's enough time to measure there.

Lol not on this performance, he got gifted this win.

right.

+agenciaLT He's waiting on Andre Ward to retire.Lmao

vic c isnt he? when is he fighting at MTV again? lol.

SKILLvsPILLS jabs dont do anything

***** Shows what you know about boxing. It's not about hurting, it's about landing shots. His jab landed in target zones and should have been scored. Most people don't know shit about boxing...

SKILLvsPILLS i dont care what you think, i live and breath boxing bro. I rather be in the gym than fuck the hottest piece of ass.

***** I think I read that right. I'll take the hot bitches if they come free. lol

SKILLvsPILLS they're never free lol

+Adam G what these casuals don't realize is the moment Dirrell switched his stance, Teddy picked it right up and said "Dirrell has switched from power punching to what he's doing now" which was his was of not saying dirrell was outright running for his life at that point.

Asyk aMan you just made yourself sound completely stupid. those are the athen games. they fought at middleweight. as a matter of fact golovkin never fought at 168 of his life. only light middleweight and middleweight.

you mean why aren't they giving GGG points when he lands.

you bias

Dean McAndrew I actually left out a few words. I like GGG he's very good. Like I said it's about skills not skin color. Andre did get cheated here tho.

Dean McAndrew You're maybe right my friend. I know I like him and I'm African-American he has good very good skills. Most blacks in the U.S. aren't into boxing. Football and basketball is the only sport blacks really pay attention to in the U.S.

Dean McAndrew I know he's dope because my man Cotto doesn't want any parts of him, and I've seen Cotto give and take some beatings.

I saw Dirrell get robbed in this fight. GGG was getting points every time he moved his hands wether a punch landed or not. A lot of Dirrells punches went uncounted. And I'm white from the UK, not that it matters...

+Leonard Coleman what black americans love boxing.I never heard that before