My first thought was 'I think Kelly puts an ass whooping on him'. But then i haven't really seen that much of Golovkin. If Jermain Taylor can outbox Pavlik and get him in trouble i don't see why GGG couldn't find a way. If i had to bet, it would be Kelly UD but it wouldn't surprise me if GGG won either by KO or UD
Pavlik would KO GGG, GGG was being tagged by Proksa and Rosado if Pavlik lands his right early GGG would be in big trouble...
only if pav was a junior middleweight with back to back losses we might could have seen this in theory
"If Jermain Taylor" taylor is a former olympic bronze medalist that drew and beat a prime hopkins over 24 rounds. jt in his prime was a proven world class champion. at this juncture, comparing an absolutely unproven(although he has a stellar amatuer record) golovkin is very close to the idiots here that try to compare canelo to vargas.
I agree GGG is just as unproven as Canelo, maybe worse. The difference is, all legit SWW contenders are lining up to face Canelo, his people prefer to look down in weight. GGG cannot get any top 10 MW to challenge for his belt on HBO.
For most of these guys a title shot on HBO should be reward enough. What are they expecting? I'm not talking Martinez, Chavez, but the rest of the contenders.
he did not look particularly great against rosado. a probably drunk kp beat the wholly **** out of rubio who is light years ahead of rosado both in skillset and proveness at mw. this after pavlik beat down against hopkins. the only difference between canelo and ggg right now other than ggg being proven in the amatuers is the blatant avoidance of glovokin by some fighters(sturm) and like you said, the willingness of every contender at 154 calling out canelo. fighters generally dont go around calling out other fighters unless they truly think there are flaws that they can exploit, which is one of the reasosn i think canelo is exploited sometime in the very near future.
yeah lol, all of a sudden he is indestructible, apparently he had some sort of prime when he could not be defeated by anybody and would clean out the division easily. Now Pavlik is right there with Tyson and other indestructible fighters of the past. All he had to do is retire to become great.
Well let's be clear that Golovkin isn't exactly being given the largest purses in the world by HBO. His headlining bill did far and away the lowest rating of last year on the network. Aside from Martinez and Chavez, I'd say Geale has/had more lucrative options and Sturm (one of the few fighters I'd say has legitimately ducked Golovkin) nevertheless probably did as well. N'Jikam has a guaranteed shot at Quillin on the horizon, Quillin had a guaranteed fight for another belt at home and on longer notice than the date Proksa took, and Pirog was obviously willing but injured.