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

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  3. Flip a coin

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  1. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    But then Wlad isn't really Wlad. He is a different fighter.

    Unless you want to keep it as Wlad is the exact Wlad that was in real life with no differences and make him a foot shorter and 80-100 pounds smaller.

    Wlad has actually been rated in a P4P sense and was actually ranked number one briefly in his own career and multiple times in the top 10 but that was based on his achievements his division.
     
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  2. BCS8

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    My point being (and it is a point that Loudon so eagerly supplied, lol) that Wlad relies a lot on being a bigger and taller man than his opponets as well as being more skilled. Indeed, his skills are built around his size. Foreman in a similar way built his career on being bigger and tougher than everybody else. Shrink both these guys down and that major part of their success formula is gone.

    Now I'd agree that a good part of GGG's success is because he was a tank physically. But the crucial part is that this was not due to his being larger. Moreover his style was technical and would still work if he wasn't a KO machine deluxe. Indeed, his early career is based more on being a boxer-puncher than on "Mexican Style". That is why GGG scales well in a P4P sense.
     
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  3. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I can agree in that sense. But still I prefer to look at how fighters did on there on class.
     
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  4. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    I didn't realise this thread was gonna have Susan Fleming legs like this.
     
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  5. OddR

    OddR Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It's my first successful thread. All my others up till this one got little engagement.
     
  6. BCS8

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    How hot is Susan Fleming?
     
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  7. BCS8

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    Just wait till you see my George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali thread!
     
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    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    I've been on this forum since Willie Nelson was rolling his first and I still can't predict 'em.
     
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  9. SouthpawsRule

    SouthpawsRule Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Uhhh yes? Holyfield, Usyk, the cardio those guys have are only impressive relative to their size. Prime Holyfield was dead on his feet against Bowe. Usyk can only be so active because he puts almost nothing behind his shots and usually drops the middle rounds in order to fully step on the gas late into the match. If Golovkin threw 800+ genuine power-shots and stiff jabs for 12 rounds at 6’4 and 220 lbs he’d have a heart attack.

    It doesn’t matter how good your chin is at HW, it doesn’t increase like power and size does. Henry Cooper dropped Ali, basically any HW can KO one another if they land clean, human body isn’t built to take punches from people that big.
     
  10. BCS8

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    Granted he might not pull off that workrate. But it would still be higher than most HWs because of how he trains.
     
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    46 votes to 13. Lord have mercy on this horse.
     
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  13. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Fixed.
     
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  14. BCS8

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    Looks quite a bit like my friend's sister :D
     
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  15. BCS8

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    "Foreman vs a steam-roller?"
    Classic "Foreman 50 steam-roller 2"