Is Golovkin the best MW ever?

which ones would they both beat?

 

Not even top 10. I'd have the following ahead of him, in no particular order:

Hopkins
Monzon
Robinson
Hagler
Jones Jr
Toney

 

Not even close. Golvkin is by far the best active Middleweight and proved it, but the best all time is overlooking a lot of great Middleweights over the years.

 

No. He has some work to do to gain that distinction.

 

k.

bye

 

he makes the top five of this century, probably. lets see, theres martinez, uncle abe, hopkins, sturm maybe.

3g is above sturm for sure, but perhaps not in front of uncle abe yet, or level maybe. But i think he will surpass Abe soon.

martinez and hopkins are still ahead.

taylor? one hit wonder really.

pavlik? hes probably passed him.

cotto? hes likely surpassed him now as solely a MW, alhough cotto is better overall with his work in two divisions, same with Winky.

 

You really think he'd really beat a prime Roy Jones? Canelo is very fast, and he was clearly far faster than GGG. Now Roy Jones makes Canelo look like a tortoise.

 

Ivannedy dragovkin?

 

Based on what? Him struggling to a draw against a 154lb fighter who lost every single round against an ageing natural junior welterweight?

To be great you have to best someone great, so far he's not done anything remotely close.

 

Golovkin is good but his resume simply doesn't match up to many of the other great middleweights like Robinson, Hagler etc.

As for his head to head ability, well sure he's looked good KOing weak guys like Geale, Wade, Murray, Macklin etc, but you'd expect that from any great big hitting middleweight. Pavlik looked incredible KOing a bunch of guys then looked more vulnerable when he did finally fight another good middleweight in Taylor and of course was exposed badly vs an old Hopkins. Golovkin too looked less than invincible when facing Jacobs and Clenelo.

 

Somewhere from 7-10 maybe