What round would GGG have stopped Floyd in?

There's no shame in Floyd losing to GGG. No 18-20lb lighter fighter in history is taking GGG's power, unless they're as wide as they are tall with a head and neck the size of a car park and even then there's next to no chance of them doing so.

GGG's power is ridiculous. He's the same size as an awful lot of LMWs but he doesn't hit very hard for a MW he hits crazy hard for one. And he has crazy power in both hands, head and body, hooks, crosses, uppercuts, jabs.

Froch was a very spiteful puncher but it took him about 20 flush bombs to get Bute out of there

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Stevie ''Jelly'' Rolls might be D level but he has only been stopped once. Berlangy's power might not be quite what it's cracked up to be but he still punches very hard and he couldn't get Rolls out of there nor could Ammo Williams. GGG sent Rolls to the shadow realm

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This is the pre-Sanchez young GGG. My favourite version of GGG

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I could spend the next 30 minutes posting his KOs but I'll just post videos and quotes of fighters who've actually felt his power or seen it up close and personal in the gym instead

 

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Darnell Boone on GGG's power

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'Ola Afolabi said to Sky Ringside “I think it’s going to be a knockout. The guy [Golovkin] hits incredibly hard. I’ve been in the ring with heavyweights, cruiserweights, light heavyweights, and I get in the ring with this kid and every time he hits me, I say whoa!''

Ryan Coyne (former CW now LHW)

''He’s a ****** beast,” said Coyne, a 20-0 cruiserweight prospect who has recently dropped down to light heavyweight. “He’s been running guys out of here. Nobody under 175 pounds will spar with him.''

“I’ve sparred with heavyweights who can punch, including Mariusz Wach and Mike Perez, nobody has hit me as hard as Golovkin. His power is out of this world.”

''I spent my summer up in Big Bear training with Gennady Golovkin who is emerging as the most murderous puncher in the boxing. I watched former champions, light heavies, cruisers, and even heavies get sent home.''

David Imoesiri HW

“The dude can hit, I’m still getting used to it,” said Imoesiri, who like Coyne, is delightfully bright and articulate. “It’s crazy. I sparred with [undefeated WBA heavyweight beltholder] Alexander Povetkin and he never hurt me like this guy.''

“I must have done 50 rounds while in camp with Povetkin and it was three and half weeks before he hit me with something that made me hold on. With Golovkin I was ready to get out of the ring 45 seconds into our first round of sparring. He hit me with two lefts to the body in the identical spot and had me doubled over. I got through it but it’s hard to defend against 6-inch punches with that much pop. He backs me into a corner with just a jab.

“And it seems like he does it effortlessly.”

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''The guy hits like a hammer. I tried everything, but it did not work. You have to give him credit, because he had a good handle on the situation and it was an honor to meet him in the ring. Even though I lost every round, I wanted to fight on. [Early on] it seemed to me that I was resistant to punches, but eventually they caught up with me. For each subsequent start, I went out out with another plan, trying to surprise him, but he is really great," Proksa said.

"I have never felt that type of power anywhere, not in sparring or anywhere."

--Grzegorz Proksa


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''Golovkin has freakishly unreal power''

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''Golovkin hits like a LHW. And that's coming from someone who can take a punch''

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''Nobody's ever hit me the way Golovkin has hit me. Honestly, the shot that he hit me with, up to this day.. since I've been boxing, nobody has ever hit the way he hit me''

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''He be punching as hard as Johnathon Banks be punching''

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''I've sparred heavyweights, cruiserweights. These punches nothing to me. I spar Golovkin and every punch I feel''

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“The rumors are true, Gennady Golovkin is an animal. I’ve never been hit as hard from anybody else and I’ve sparred heavyweights”

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"He's the strongest dude I ever sparred. And I been in there with heavyweights, cruiserweights."

--Farah Ennis (boxes as a Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight)

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2:12 David Benavidez on GGG's power

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"Golovkin hits like a sledgehammer"

-- Sergey Kovalev

''Gennady Golovkin is the hardest puncher I've ever been in there with. This dude can hit, man! He can punch for real. And I've been in there with Edison Miranda (and Kid Chocolate) and some guys that can punch. This dude can punch like crazy.''

--Tyrell Hendrix

"Golovkin's fist is as hard as stone"

--Ryota Murata (Olympic gold medalist at MW)

''It was the toughest camp I have been in. He [Golovkin] hits like a heavyweight all over''

--Dhafir Smith (Smith has spent time in camp sparring Adonis Stevenson, Andre Ward. Lucian Bute, Zsolt Erdei, Eddie Chambers and Edwin Rodriguez among others)

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Benavidez has also sparred Gvozdyk but he didn't mention it here