Ive Noticed The Body Snatcher Does well in Alot of h2h fights, and he proved his greatness in the 80s and 90s and racking up an ATG resume by beating jackson,mcrory,curry at his favoured weight of 154lbs and then easily moving up the weights and finally reaching the old cruiserweight limit of 190lbs. Slightly past his prime He had a trilogy against James Toney Drawing once and then losing 2 decisions, he revenged his loss to Sumbu Kalambay, Destroyed a very strong and talented Michael watson, Beat a teaktough well schooled boxer in Steve collins, Got a Split decision against Herol Graham (need to watch that) who was a very tricky and quick elusive fighter. And then he moves up to 175lbs. 38years old, beats a powerful hardhitting Aussie Jeff Harding, decisions him. His campaign at 175lbs isnt legendary but its pretty decent. You may think Im feeding him to the wolves with Sergey Kovalev, but honestly the Kovalev who just shutout Hopkins, how different was that from the roy jones who shutout mike mcallum in late 1996. Was he more likely to move foward than the turtleshelled hopkins? could he work out these 2 european beasts, and make them pay for there mistakes. :think :thumbsup 160lbs Mcallum vs Golovkin 175lbs Mcallum vs Kovalev
Neither Golovkin or Kovalev at the moment has the resume to compare with McCallum. I will say based on film I think Kovalev is too big for him.
Kovalev would beat the 175 McCallum imo. Based on recent Golovkin hype i struggle to see McCallum getting out of the second round there.
Body snatcher defeats GGG no problem at all..has trouble with Kovalev because of size but still pulls it out
I think even at 175 he was still elusive enough to survive with Kovalev, but no way does he win that one. He was too slow and had nothing on his punches at that stage. The fight with Golovkin would be a treat. Hard to say who takes it. Really have to see more of Golovkin to form an opinion here. Stylistically I'd say he suits Mike, though, since Mike loved to box. It was the more elusive boxer/counter punching types (Kalambay, Toney and to a lesser degree Curry and Graham) that vexed him.
Mike McCallum spent too little time at LH and was well beyond his best by the time this happened. Therefore I don't think he should even be matched Kovalev in a fantasy fight. McCallum vs GGG might have made for an interesting fight and I'm not sure who I'd favor. Personally I think the best version of the body snatcher was at 154.
As much as I rate Golovkin, I've seen nothing to suggest he beats McCallum at 160. Kovalev is a little unfair, as Mike wasn't a great light heavy.
Golovkin is not fit to be mentioned in the same thread as McCallum. It would be a man schooling a boy. The other one is just too big for Mike, who only went up to L / Heavy because he was too old to make weight.
I think Kovalev is too big and too good at 175 for McCallum. Right now I would pick McCallum to win a close decision over GGG. Triple G looks like he can hurt anything he hits at 160 right now. But McCallum's resume is sooooooo much better right now...GGG needs to prove something first.
There was never any real good reason for Mike to ever go above 168. He said himself he only Went up to LHW because he couldn't get any fights at SMW. At LHW he at least reckoned he could get a date with Harding, which he eventually did. But he was a bit fat at LHW. Would be interesting to see what he could have done at SMW around 93-95 if he'd got any of the big names to fight him. I think he still had a couple of really good performances in him after Toney II if he had gotten fights really worth the effort.
The result of GGG vs McCallum depends a lot on how good Golovkin's right is. Because Mike was vulnerable to the right, and if Golovkin, with his power, can find a mark for it enough time even Mike might crumble eventually. Toney hurt him badly with a right in the last round of their first meeting and he wasn't a power puncher as such.
McCallum wins a hard fought 8-4 against GGG. Which version faces Kovalev? The version who faced Toney who doesn't boil down or the older version who fought at 175? In that case you have to go with the Kovalev but a somewhat younger McCallum could beat him. Not any MW
