Kovalev's Resume Is NOW BETTER than GGG's. Yet He Doesn't Get As Much Hype Or Credit.

Kovalev seems to be easily written off as a hypejob far more frequently than GGG, because of his lack of notable wins, but in reality their resumes are basically equal. The Light Heavyweight Division doesn't get near the attention that Middleweight does, therefore the opponents that GGG has faced are pretty well known to most fans, whereas Kovalev's are basically unknown especially to most American audiences.
But GGG's Resume is better in name recognition only, Kovalev's opponents have been just as, if not a little more impressive they Golovkin's to date, and he should get a little more credit than he does.

The losses I mention are losses before their Match with GGG or Kovalev.

Golovkin's Resume_____________________________________________
Marco Antonio Rubio-

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3 of which were KO losses, best recent wins Lemieux, Spada, and Rigoberto Alvarez.
Daniel Geale-

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down 8 times in career best recent wins Sturm, and Mundine who he also lost to, beaten by Barker.
Osumano Adama-

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, best recent wins Upshaw and Dyah Davis, lost to Geale
Curtis Stevens-

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1 by KO to Primera and Binkley and Dirrell, best recent wins a terribly shot Ayala and Roman. Looked bad in winning over Findley.
Matthew Macklin-

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best win?????? Sturm almost stopped him in last round, Martinez KO'd him in 11. Had a year long layoff before fight.
Nobuhiro Ishida-

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, pummeled brutally by a shot Paul Williams and Pirog, best win got lucky with Kirkland.
Gabriel Rosado-

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1 by KO to Angulo in 2, got outclassed by Fernando Guerrero, couldn't KO Love, best wins Soto Karass Powell and Whitaker.
Gregorz Proksa-

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, best win Sebastian Sylvester
Kassim Ouma-

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. lost to Vanes, K9, Taylor and Roman, best recent win???

Kovalev's Resume_____________________________________________
Blake Caparello-

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, Best Wins Muriqi, Green, Berridge who are all decent.
Cedric Agnew-

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Best Wins Yusef Mack and Otis Griffin not a great resume.
Ismayl Silakh-

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to Grachev, Best Win Yordanis Despaigne. Not that great but a Solid Opponent
Nathan Cleverly-

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Best wins KOing Murat, Bellew, Krasniqi, Mohammedi and recent Dawson conqueror Karpency.
Gabriel Campillo-

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Robbed of wins over Shumenov twice, Murat almost Twice, Cloud. Best Official win Garay who beat Braehmer
Lionel Thompson-

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, Best Win ??? but he had a close fight since with prospect Kalajdzic
Cornelius White-

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to Don George, Best Win over Sukhotsky and Yordanis Despaigne.
Darnell Boone-

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Professional Journeyman good at making people Look Bad, Notable Win Adonis Stevenson, dropped Ward and KO Adonis.
Roman Simakov-

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Solid Prospect who had close SD loss other Top Prospect Lepikhin,Undefeated other than that, Died of injuries in fight.

Now Sergey is fighting a Living Legend, but will he be considered better than GGG if beats BHop, probably not.:-(
GGG has far better technique and overall skill he is easily the better boxer of the 2, but as far as blunt force punching power, and a crowd pleasing style I personally think Kovalev edges out GGG on that as well.
They're both have pretty impressive resume's but Sergey should a little more hype than he does.



Postscript
Kovalev schooled BHOP. Kovalev may be equally skilled as GGG, maybe more so.
GGG beat Murray.

 

Kovalev is also far more reckless and doesn't plant his feet as well as GGG, therefore he seems less stabilized, I think Sergey's chin is fine, but your right he does lack the skill of GGG. But what he lacks in skill he more than makes up for with a more exciting overall style.

 

Based on what evidence, the Atoev KD he also got up and finished the match, so what Atoev is a big puncher he also happened to beat Beterbiev in the amateurs as well, Vitali got KO'd in the amateurs yet he was iron chinned as a pro.

 

I basically agree with everything you just said.:good

 

GGG's placement of his punches is immaculate, that's why all of his punches are as devastating as they are. He knows where and how to punch to get the desired effect he's looking for, he's obviously a far more intelligent technical boxer than a lot of his detractors are willing to give him credit for.

That being said I have no idea how Kovalev KO's people with glancing blows and light jabs to the stomach, Sergey has terrifying power.

 

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