Who is greater P4P George Foreman or Gennady Golovkin?

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Who is greater P4P George Foreman or Gennady Golovkin?

  1. George Foreman

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  2. Gennady Golovkin

    21.2%
  3. Flip a coin

    4.5%
  1. BCS8

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    Foreman demonstrating his amazing fight IQ

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  2. Yorbals

    Yorbals Boxing Addict Full Member

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    What you’re seeing there is an illusion, Ali’s toughness is covering up the fantastic head and body work, feints, sharp footwork and all round ability of George :)
     
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  3. BCS8

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    Foreman trying to find Golovkin

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  4. BCS8

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    :lol: You have to work in advertising :D
     
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  5. Yorbals

    Yorbals Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Gennady was great, did everything right, but Foreman was a force of nature.
    Could Golovkin completely destroy and make look like a little boy a middleweight of the calibre of a Frazier?
    Sometimes the wrong answer is the right answer
     
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  6. BCS8

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    Let's contrast that to the Golovkin approach. I assume I don't need to explain why Golovkin is boxing on a different level to Foreman?

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  7. BCS8

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    Sometimes a big tough guy can just beat the **** out of a greater smaller guy who is trying to play the same game ...
     
  8. Yorbals

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    That’s true, I think Foreman’s oafishness is exaggerated however. He knew how to make his attributes work for him.
    Destruction of Frazier twice, Norton, goat comeback vs the loss to uncle Jimmy.


    Golovkin was consistent and had everything going for him, maybe he was never the quickest.
    Could a middleweight uncle Jimmy type character beat an out of sorts Golovkin? I think they’re both top ten at their weights so it has to be close?
     
  9. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Most people on this forum don't rate Golovkin as a top 10 MW while they do Foreman as HW but most here would argue MW is a much tougher division than HW to rank all time so by that metric who knows.
     
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  10. BCS8

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    A fair reflection of how the forum sees the two divisions side by side.
     
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  11. BCS8

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    I don't know how to restate my argument other than to say that until GGG got old, he was a force of nature. There was literally no style that he could not cope with.

    Foreman came back and regained what had been his. I think it is a truism that heavyweights age better than the lighter weights. There's no way Golovkin could do that. Foreman was a smarter fighter by far in his return but he no longer had the physical edge over his opponents. He still had the same weakness of guys being able to outbox him.

    It just seems to me that Golovkin had an answer to everything technically and that physically he was even better P4P than Foreman, even though he was a smallish or middle of the road middleweight.
     
  12. NoNeck

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    I drop truthbombs.
     
  13. NoNeck

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    I can't believe how many people brush over that Foreman quits. It's clear as day.
     
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  14. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ok. I suspected neither would make your list.
     
  15. McGrain

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    Foreman made it first time around, low 90s.