“I think the day of the fight, I only gained two pounds. I wasn’t a middleweight. Golovkin, to me, was the most skilful fighter I fought. But on top of that, I wasn’t a middleweight and I still gave him a good fight. He didn’t put me down. Obviously the cuts affected me. But I think, for me, that was like the turning point for me, where now I was obligated to stay at the middleweight division. And that’s where I keep fighting the tough fights in the middleweight division, because no one wanted to fight me at ‘54. That kind of changed my style in the sense of ‘Gabe Rosado, he comes to fight,’ you know? ‘He’s a warrior’ or whatever. Well, yeah, because I was fighting guys that were bigger than me. I had to be that kind of fighter. I had to adjust and I had to kind of change my style a bit.”
