Could Golovkin beat Joe Smith?

So, remember Golovkin vs. Lemieux? Yeah, that's pretty much this.

 

We've discussed GGG's size before, no point reopening that discussion IMO.

But you're right that the Charlo-Williams fight night weights were rubbish, no way both (esp. Charlo) were under 160 lb in the ring.

 

So you'd pick GGG?

 

at 164 maybe

 

It is the best way to gauge ones potential performance against different styles, sizes, any metric possible. A competitive sparring session only turns into practice when one fighter cannot get the things accomplished he intended or is brought in to do specific things as a paid sparring partner. Every account over the past 6 years claims Golovkin handles guys in sparring that are as big if not bigger than Joe Smith so call me naive but I am going with the preponderance of evidence.

 

Yes.

 

I was thinking the same exact thing when i watching the highlights earlier on youtube.

Damn , Smith looked huge next to Hopkins and his arms looks long as hell too.

I was liking that Hook he caught Hopkins with a few times btw.

He still has a lot to work on, so hopefully he continues to evolve and improve his skill.

Boxing needs all the stars we can get right now.

 

Yeah I agree, not all sparring stories are apocryphal. But for every true one, there must be a dozen that either never happened, didn't happen the way they were reported or both fighters have a conflicting recollections. I've no doubt GGG can hold his own in sparring against bigger guys and I believe he was meant to have dropped Kovalev in sparring with a body punch. But the thing is, I'd back Krusher to win an actual fight in the ring with GGG at 175. For me, if a boxer (or his trainer) is letting it out into the public domain about sparring (any fighter not just GGG) until they step into the ring at that weight in a proper fight I'm going to observe such information as interesting noise and nothing more.

 

It is more realistic to make fantasy matches for GGG vs Welterweights

 

Smith was 188 on fight night. He's too big

 

When people stop talking bs and start being realistic I will stop.

GGG has never weighed less than 175 the ring, he looks like an Auschwitz victim at weigh in, you might as well call him Gennady Frank.

In the ring he's a ball of muscle that looks a weight division or two bigger than his over matched opponents.

Kell Brook looked like a featherweight in the ring with him, no wonder his best punches had no effect. It was a despicable mismatch.

Canelo isn't much bigger than Brook, I don't want to see that mismatch, I want GGG to fight a guy his size and talent level like Chris Eubank Jr or Andre Ward

 

You know whats hilarious to anyone who isn't completely biased like you? The size difference between Canelo-Cotto was larger than the size difference between GGG-Brook. But you won't ever admit it.

 

What you won't admit is that Cotto was a proven Jr.MW having had KO Daniel Geale, and KO Martinez. There is just no comparison.

Styles make fights. Not sure if you've heard that term before. One example is Golovkin, they steer him clear away from the slicksters for that very reason.

 

I won't even bother with it because it's not relevant to the discussion. What does the legitimacy of the wins have anything to do with size? Nobody was saying Brook was a better win than Cotto in this conversation.

 

Yeah this,of course Smith jnr could knock anyone out but skills wise he's very green,I'd love to see it though as you don't see anyone walking GGG down,he'd lose I'm 100% positive just as he'd lose to Kovalev,Fonfara obviously didn't fancy a rematch did he?