Roughly ten years down the road, when both are retired. Who will rank higher in Legacy?(Not talking $) Oleksandr Usyk or Ganeddy Golovkin Make a prediction I pick Oleksandr Usyk that cat is Slick. Sky is the limit for Oleksandr. I wouldnt be surprised if he boxes heavyweight's ears off. I always felt HBO used smoke & mirrors to mystify fans with GGG. Usyk feels organic We'll see make a stand & we'll look back in years to come.
I think Usyk unless his greater tolerance for risk causes him to take a beating (and even then he may avenge such a loss). Greatness is proportional to risk, isn't it?
If GGG wasn’t cheated out of setting the middleweight title defense record I’d say there is no telling. But most likely Usyk will have the more impressive legacy especially after he moves up and wins the title at HW.
Usyk is never going to be a PPV fighter, or half as popular as GGG But seems like Usyk is a better cruiser weight than Golovkin as a middleweight But unfortunately GGG started too late in America. If he starts 7-8 years earlier and they do a bit more active promotion with him, he would have been as popular in his prime as Pacquiao was. I’m the biggest GGG fan, but it’s just a fact that at the age of 36-37-38 you are not in your prime anymore, especially with this offensive style of fighting and the brutal training camps in Big Bear and the weight cuts. I hope they are going to make the trilogy fight in May, knocks out Canelo, and during the post fight interview he retires. “This was the last big drama show guys, congratulations to my Mexican fans for Cinco de Mayo, alga Kazakhstan!” But at least he cashed out. With the 2 Canelo fight he made around 60 milllion, and he already had like 10-15 million dollar.
I will call him a 100% from this point on , when you say great boxer he passes the eye test can do a little of everything and has the extra, love me some 100%.
So far there is nothing close in cruisers to the level of Canelo in terms of skill, popularity and protection. So Usyk despite his magnificent wins can’t be put ahead as the level of opponents is overall low. With the heavyweight, I doubt he can do anything at this moment against Fury or Joshua. So no, he will not his legacy will not be bigger unless he defeats one of these two.
Usyk has already achieved more than GGG, to be fair he has achieved more than majority of the fighters