Better Chin Canelo or GGG

His very consistent fight night weight was 170, many 154 pounders come in about that weight. In fact, Crawford weighed 169.8 for his debut at 154 whilst being super lean and he's supposed to be a small guy according to many

Whilst it's true many of his opponents where the weights were announced were roughly his size, Jacobs was about 180 according to Vic Conte, Lemieux was 5lbs heavier both of whom very big punchers, and Rubio who has a KO 86% was 8lbs heavier. Clenelo would've had a significant weight advantage in their fights too

Bivol was 3-5lbs heavier than Clenelo

Berlangy and Mung looked much bigger than Clenelo

You can also make the argument that Clenelo was better defensively than GGG and GGG has never been dropped fighting to the age of 40 and was already past his prime when he fought Clenelo. Will Clenelo be able to make it to 40 without getting dropped? The cracks are starting to show IMO

And that Clenelo is a PED cheat

And GGG's extremely extensive amateur career has to be factored in too. He fought a lot of good guys and at the highest level for a long time and he made it to gone 40 y/o without being dropped or stopped amateur or pro. Tons of the greats and top fighters have been knocked out or stopped in the amateurs, let alone dropped

Neither has ever been dropped and they both have iron chins but the discussion needed more context which wasn't being considered

 

That's because contrary to what many will try and have us believe Crawford is not a small guy, is not fighting bigger or much bigger guys when he moves up, and even at the sixth weight than the one he started out at he weighed in at 167.5 looking as lean as a hungry greyhound with very low body fat. I wasn't in the least bit surprised because I've been telling everyone this for years

Bivol might have had a bigger frame but in terms of weight there was 3-5lbs difference and that PED bulked up Clenelo's punch resistance is augmented by that weight/bulk

Crawford and Clenelo looked in the same weight class but we're supposed to believe Crawford's a 135-147 pounder

Mung and Berlangy, as said, looked much bigger but they came up from 140-147 and 160 respectively so they would've been smaller when facing career 168 pounders according to many

Extremely extensive amateur careers put miles on the clock too and as said many of the legends of the sport, let alone greats and world champions, have been knocked out in the amateurs or stopped and dropped and most had way less amateur fights than GGG who was never dropped or stopped

I'm not arguing that Clenelo hasn't fought better opposition or that he didn't fight in more divisions against bigger guys albeit he turned pro at 15. Here's GGG at 15 vs a future Olympic gold medalist and excellent fighter. Had he turned pro at that age it would have been at a much lower weight than MW

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People say G was never rocked but pretty sure he was early in his career. Not canelo cotto status but he was rocked.

Anyways, while I do lean towards G having the better chin, Canelo took some good shots from Golovkin, which is the hardest puncher either of them took flush shots from, so Ill go ahead and say theyre in the same bracket.

 

GGG just eats them up unaffected and keeps coming

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