Is Golovkin an All Time Great ?

post links about him. Boxrec, wiki link etc.
I do not know this moment.
Maybe he is very good.

 

What people who are trying to degrade GGG are failing to acknowledge is that he didnt just beat these guys, which most top fighters would be proud to have tough close wins over the same apponents, it's that he absolutely mops the floor with these guys in devastating jaw dropping fashion. Few have made it the distance with him.

 

i think OP post answers the question on its own. if you have derevyanchenko, rubio, lemieux and jacobs as yuour best wins there is no way in hell you are an atg. all of them were/are good contenders but well below of elite, neither is having two very close competitive fights with an elite like canelo, if that were the case john mugabi would be labeled an ATG as well. i dont count title defenses either because the bulk of them were agaisnt subpar opposition. in short, golovkin was a good perennial champion who legacy wise is closer to eubank and benn than to hagler and monzon.

 

He is a elite like Canelo, didn't you see the GGG vs Canelo fights?

 

what that has to do with what i wrote? i didnt question if he was elite, i was arguing he is not close to being an atg. the inly thing you can consider when deciding if a boxer is an atg is resume, an golovkin one is nothing impressive. its the resume of a long, good champion but lacking heavily in terms of legacy.

 

He was avoided like few fighters in the last 30 years. Nobody was looking to fight him.

Mayweather never mentioned his name.
Cotto
Sergio Martinez
Guys like Peter Quillian and a few others.
Kudos to those that did fight him. Including Canelo (whom I thought Triple G beat both times in good competitive fights)

 

i think the fact he was avoided is mostly a myth. Martinez was at the tail-end of his career when golovkin appeared in the US scene, his last three fights were two ppv against cash cows chavez jr and cotto and a stadium fight against murray, golovking brought nothing to the table for him.
Cotto and mayweather were both cash cows at the verge of retirement looking only for mega fights. i guess you can say golovkin could have taken geale place against cotto but then again the fight was supposed to just be a tune-up for the canelo alvarez mega-fight.
Quillin and others were just paper belt holders who eventually crumbled and dissapeared, they would add the same weight to golovkin resume as the lemieux win.
So i dont think he was very avoided, you can literally count with your hands the amout of elite fighters who fought at MW in his time.

 

He's not a top 10 MW of all time and isn't a top 150 boxer of all time either. The man wasted his entire career around Canelo and thats what he'll always be known for.

 

The only thing GGG brought to the table was a guarantee a#$ whooping, which is why Martinez and others avoided him.

 

He couldn't even wreck Chenko or Jacobs. Log off.

 

Well Canelo beat all that, twice if we're honest, so I guess that makes Canelo an 11 in all those categories if GGG's a 10. I agree that GGG is an ATG, but you hype him beyond what can possibly be considered reasonable. If GGG is as good as you say he is, than Canelo must be the greatest fighter of all time.

GGG is an ATG, but he was exposed by Canelo as not as good as people like you thought he was. Canelo beat him, just accept it, move up and give Canelo his due to beating your precious GGG. It happened, it was glorious but crying about it and trying to whitewash history ain't gonna do you any good.

 

Canelo beat up GGG real good, and destroyed the myth that GGG was unbeatable. Then GGG fans started making excuses like he was old. How sad. Best thing Canelo ever did was destroy that hype train.

 

So what middleweights did he choose to not fight?

 

Close but a gun to my head I'd have to say no. His career when all is said and done will be memorable but not atg memorable. Heck, even currently he has virtually no buzz surrounding him and I'm saying this as a fan.

 

Best of his era and super dominant

He’s an ATG