How Surrix, he’s not as tough as GGG and isn’t fundamentally as sound. GGG has some rocky moments but no doubt leaves Benn in a heap blatantly
Because G man was more focused only on his offense and not rare cases when he over committed and get partially disbalanced in the end phase of his punch. While GGG team ofc researches future opponents and GGG will be more theoretically and practically prepared than Benn to fight with G man. If G man will throw punch and GGG had managed to put counter with full power G man go to sleep. G man's skills are seriously overrated cos he beated up a lot of bags and had been promoted by King. His skills were mainly to punch hard, nothing else for top 10 level he never had.
McClellan didn't carry his power late. Everytime someone made it into the second half of the fight, it went the distance with him in trouble on the cards or in that one case being stopped himself. And then there was that weight issue... which even today with all modern tricks would be pretty damn suspicious. Clear issue of a frontrunner, a very good one at that, but still a frontrunner. Golovkin KO8
Golovkin isn't just some iron chinned puncher. He's a complete boxer and fundamentally rock solid. He typically respects the power of the sluggers and uses the jab and footwork to tame them. Guy like Benn and McClellan were outstanding at what they did but fundamentally not as strong technically. I think they may have a good start but down the stretch Golovkin picks them apart. I'd take him.
I’ll go with my first reaction to the thread title and immediately I saw GGG as the winner against McClellan. This being the GGG before he started fading, the one everyone avoided. I think GGG had a better all around skill set.
Amazing fight this. It would be back and fourth time affair and It would be a absolute barn burner. But if Benn can take the best shots and cripple McClellan, I see GGG doing the same.
I’m a fan of Benns, he doesn’t go 8 with GGG imo BC, I’d say McClellans career is drastically shortened if he met GGG, the weight cut he made GGG could actually kill him, bypassing the vegetable state
Benn was awesome to watch but he was also really wild. You don't want to do that against a technician.
GGG. He'd withstand McClellan's power and he'd grind him down with his own two-fisted bludgeoning power and skills and stop him. Like weight bully Clenelo who forked out a small fortune to have a specially designed Kazakhstani-proof state of the art electrified chicken coop built to hide out in and created his own weight class to shamelessly duck a closer to prime GGG and was getting thoroughly outboxed by a still concussed shot drunk Kovalev who GGG sparked out a prime version of in the gym, McClellan would have a significant weight advantage over GGG but other than chinny bangers Jackson and Mugabi (the later of whom was past his best) who were both stopped six times out of their combined 13 losses, GGG has a rock solid cast-iron Kazakhstani mandible and didn't suffer losses to the likes of Dennis Milton and Ralph Ward because you'd know all about it if he did because he would be getting crucified for it unmercifully nonstop.
The only MW in history that could beat prime Golovkin was Marvin Hagler, people love to underrate GGG.
Disagree if anything Golovkin is overrated on here who has he beat to make you think he would beat McCllenan?Geralds wins over Julian Jackson trumps anything GGG has done.[/QUOTE]
If someone here is overrated this is exactly Gerald and his fans are delusional. Gerald had promised to kill Nigel Benn and Nigel after climbed back in the ring proved to all world who there will be " killed " and who is better boxer. Your these murcian talks about " who he had beat " are laughable. Semi pillow fisted clenelo will destroy him and stop him. Gerald was crude puncher overrated by U.S boxing fans and King. He never in his life had other skills close to TOP10 level rather than POWER.