MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — Gennady Golovkin made his point at the expense of Matthew Macklin on Saturday night, but the WBA-IBO middleweight champion didn’t quite convince everybody in boxing that he’s the heir apparent to division greats Marvin Hagler, Carlos Monzon, Harry Greb, Stanley Ketchel, Bernard Hopkins or Sugar Ray Robinson. “He has the power, you can ‘t take that away from him,” Buddy McGirt, Macklin’s trainer, said less than an hour after watching Golovkin knock out his fighter at 1:22 of the third round with a crushing left to the body that sent the Irishman collapsing to the floor as if he were a fold-up chair. “I’d still like to...
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