GGG is overrated.

surfinghb · Nov 8, 2022

ChrisJS said: ↑

I think he’s overrated by many of his fans but underrated by his unreasonable detractors.

He had a lot of quality as a fighter, good jab, power, great chin, heart etc; but he wasn’t without limitations such as his defense and lack of world class speed but overall, his absolute prime, head-to-head he might do better in hypothetical matches than he does on an all-time ranking.

When corruption and clear bias is involved I tend to not always agree with only scoring official verdicts much like I give Whitaker the Chavez win and Lewis is 2-0 vs. Holyfield, I count Golovkin as having beaten Canelo at least once and the third fight doesn’t really count as he’s clearly washed up. He was avoided by Canelo in his better days, Martinez, Sturm, Cotto etc; he’d have beaten them but he didn’t so I can’t give him those wins but I can judge him on the best opposition he faced and he wrecked a lot of guys and was consistent and active. They weren’t great fighters and I thought he was underwhelming vs. Jacobs and I don’t think Canelo was this special fighter so there’s not a great deal to judge Golovkin on at the highest level. His best three opponents - Jacobs, Canelo, Derevyanchenko- he beat them all but didn’t show himself to be special in those fights IMO.
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great post as usual .. thanks

C.J. · Nov 8, 2022

mr. magoo said: ↑

He looked very impressive in the ring when at his best and I agree with another poster who said that he was a well rounded package. My only issue with rating him however Is that the quality of his opposition was less than stellar UNLESS you definitely feel that he was robbed against Canelo.
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The Canelo 1& 2 fights were robberies Jesse James woulda been proud of

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