It’s inconceivable to think Golovkin could down Foreman. Golovkin is heavy handed but he doesn’t have many clean knock outs at middleweight he’s more an accumulation KO artist.
Those punches were pretty weak but he had at least cruiser power which is more power than the much smaller GGG has.
True but Foreman was tired as hell lunging forward he was more knocked off balance than anything else.
Golovkin has maybe 20 KOs in under 4 rounds. He's dropped and slept quality fighters with single punches from either hand. He put 181 lb Rubio out with one hook. If Golovkin isn't a big puncher with clean KOs nobody is. He could certainly drop an exhausted and battered Foreman. However, He wouldn't be able to exhaust and batter Foreman because he's not fast, defensive, and too light to grapple him like Young did. He would get pushed around and stopped. Doesn't mean Young hit harder.
No way, but there are probably a few excepetions to that rule, Roy Jones was one of the hardest hitting middles and all-time but could not match the power of Ruiz despite boxing his ears off, Ruiz got 44 wins, 30 by KO, any heavy with a better KO ratio than that punched harder than Jones, who was a huge middleweight, GGG could not match Ruiz`s power and would have lost to him due to not having Roy`s speed and mobility.
Okay, let's consider this: I logged into boxrec for the first time in a long time and did some digging... Young has actually fought men near the 180-190 range that some of Golovkin's larger opponents are believed to have rehydrated at on fight night. (Ishida, Geale, Rubio, Lemieux, Jacobs) Young's record against 180-190 lb men: 3-1 (2 KOs). None of these men were quality opponents and he didn't blast any of them out. I just don't see any evidence that Young becomes a killer if you shrink his opponents. For overall opponents under 200 lbs: 6-3 (3 KOs) A few of these guys were quality but again, Young just isn't knocking any one around.
Golovkin is a harder puncher,POUND FOR POUND than Jimmy but Young still is a harder puncher in actuality.
Young was safety first and rarely planted his feet digging in putting all his weight into a punch. He was primarily focused on surviving, then on winning the decision. If he puts everything into a shot, he will hit hard enough to get the average HW's respect but not enough to truly hurt them. I don't recall seeing anyone just walk through Young's punches. If you hit hard enough to get a 200 pound man's respect, you're going to hurt a middleweight with that same punch. In other words, if Young and Golovkin fought the same opponent who was standing there defenseless, and Young stood there going all out with his best punches, he would probably damage the opponent just as much as Golovkin if not more. He has a good 35+ lbs he can unleash on the middleweight, Golovkin doesn't, and that matters.
GGG`s punch mechanics were far better, he can get all his weight into his shots while Young couldn`t and mainly jabbed anyway, even if Young did punch harder than GGG, Golovkin had the harder jab.
