IF GGG HAD FACED BOB FOSTER..?

I would never predict a blowout of a fighter, who had never been stopped, unless they hadn't fought anybody with a pulse.

There are too many assumptions involved.

 

I think you can safely assume that an averaged size, hittable middleweight would get smoked by the biggest punching light heavyweight of all time.

Tiger had a better chin than Golovkin, and you see how much that mattered when Foster landed...

 

I think so also.. GGG allows himself to be hit and then comes on and has a lot of physical strength, although he has relied on lesser opposition many times. Foster would be high opposition and bigger and that left hook. That is why I mentioned Hagler. Marvin would be interesting at 175, and I don't think he would look too small there. Long reach.

 

Foster would have destroyed Hagler.

 

There isn't a MW in history that Foster shouldn't be favoured over. Including Greb.

 

You don't really know he did though.

 

I think that prime Bob Foster, 1968-1974 defeats Gennady Golovkin, rather easily. He would not bring his punching power to the light heavyweight class. Bob connects with that decimating left hook to Golovkin's jaw, and out go the lights, in round 5. This happens after Foster pokes out his long left jab, and catches Gennady reaching in to fire his right hand.

 

I disagree with this, GGG weighs roughly the same as Foster on fight night, and fights guys who do as well, meaning his power would be almost no different due to weight imo.

Rest of the post was spot on though.

 

No you can't assume any such thing.

There are have been middleweights who can take the power of hard hitting heavyweights in the history of the sport.

Foster wouldn't be able to put a dent in Mickey Walker's chin for example.

Golovkin's chin is an unknown quantity at light heavyweight.

 

Ok then, I think I'll leave it there then.

 

I won't.

Foster would bury Mickey Walker too.

If Golovkin was so confident of that chin of his, but wouldn't have spent his entire career fighting poor opposition, only craving the Canelo fight cause he thought Canelo was the smaller man. And Canelo's punches DID give Golovkin pause, especially in the rematch.

It's an insult to Foster to suggest he couldn't put this guy away.

 

No no, that's the point I was making. Walker gets laid the **** out by Foster as well.

 

GGG is a fish outta water in this fight, he can't out jab Foster and he can't out power him. Bob by a brutal stoppage

 

He wouldn't though!

Even the top heavyweights of his era couldn't put Walker away!

Golovkin could have had all kinds of reasons for staying at middleweight.

The bottom line is that we don't have a clue how his chin would hold up at light heavy.

Not really, it is just acknowledging that we don't know certain things.

 

A couple of people who have sparred with both men say that Golovkin hits harder than Kovalev!

I think that he could carry his power up to light heavyweight, but that his style might not translate well.