Key #1 for Gabriel Rosado Keep Your Engine Going!
By Gabriel Polanco
David Lemieux starts off fast, knocking out four of his last seven opponents in under three rounds. Although being highly praised for his power, going so far as being compared to the vicious power punching meta-human Gennady Golovkin, Lemieux’s chin and endurance has been called into question after being knocked out by pre-neck shrunken Marco Antonio Rubio.
After just dominating the slower Rubio all night, he gassed out and his inexperience past the seventh round cost him. Both guys are pretty evenly matched in this one, with Lemieux holding a bit of an edge in speed and power. But Rosado just keeps getting better and better after each round.
In his last four fights, Rosado is 0-3-1, with the Charlo fight just being terrible, but he did not look bad at all in the other fights. In the GGG fight, Rosado, a virtually unknown fighter gave GGG his hardest fight stateside. Surviving a non-stop onslaught throughout, Rosado boxed effectively at times and even caused a mouse under Golovkin’s eye. Against J’Leon Love, Rosado came into the fight to make Love look good and early on, it seemed to go that way early on. It wasn’t until midway through the fight, Rosado maintained his engine, while Love couldn’t.
Same situation with then WBO Middleweight champ, Peter Quillin. He got knocked down early, just to come back and dominate Quillin. If he takes Lemieux past seven rounds, I can see him stopping the Canadian fighter.
Key #1 for David Lemieux Be David Lemieux, but Don’t Overdo it!
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By Gabe Rivas
David Lemieux is a freaking monster.
From the first second of the first round he goes from 0 to 100 miles per hour and doesn’t stop until his opponent is on the ground.
This can be very good against many fighters, but it won’t work with someone with an elite-level chin.
After the first round of his fight with Marco Antonio Rubio, his former trainer Russ Anbar told him to not open up crazy.
This is good advice for the opening rounds in any fight, but especially with someone like Rubio, who has a lot of power and a good chin.
By the end of the first round it was clear that Rubio could take a punch and Lemieux’s trainer saw that.
The attempted adjustment was to take his time and recognize that Rubio wasn’t going anywhere despite Lemieux’s power.
Rubio did his best and, in an unfortunate combination of Rubio’s power and Lemieux’s exhaustion, Lemieux was stopped in Round 7.
Although Lemieux doesn’t have to worry about Rosado’s power–he only has 13 knockouts–he does have to worry about Rosado’s chin and his experience with going the distance.
Lemieux won’t give any rounds up early, but if he’s too exhausted to box, he may lose the later rounds based on his exhaustion and lack of elite-level competition (hell, Joachim Alcine beat him in his second loss).
