When will GGG step up his competition?

When you have WBC Champ Sergio Martinez fighting unranked Darren Barker, welter weight Paul Williams, Junior Middle Sergei Dzinziruk, Mathew Macklin, Chavez Jr, etc. why does Golovkin get criticized for fighting underwhelming opposition. At least he is beating the **** out of these over matched opponents, and not getting his arse handed to him like Martinez.

 

oh WOW, Macklin has fought at the world level for 2 years now. whoopie!

 

paul williams is better than anyone on GGG's resume dummy
and so is chavez

 

Weren't you the asshat picking Stevens to knock out Golovkin? And now he's C level and will get no credit if he wins?

 

**** these cholos with their little men champs. Mexicans are just
mad because they can only win titles in women's sized weight
divisions. GGG is ducking nobody, they're ducking him. Coward
ass Sergio needs to be stripped of the RING title and place it at
GGG's feet. Besides, it looks like a Froch vs GGG fight may happen
next year at a weight no mexican has ever or ever will win a title.

 

he's offered to fight anyone from 154-168, there just hasn't been a lot of takers.

 

**** off

 

Golovkin wants to fight the other middleweight champions.................Why should he go up in weight 8 lbs., or to 175? Ward refuses to fight Stevenson or Kovalev. Why don't they ask SOB Ward to go up and fight someone outside his home town with his personal referee and judges? Pretty soon you will hear the haters asking for Golovkin to fight a Klitshcko...............

The same ones that want Golovkin to fight at 168 or 175 say nothing about Wilder who is ranked #3 WBC, #6 WBA and # 12 IBF without his ever fighting anyone in the top 50! Wilder appears to be planing on the WBC giving him their title without fighting anyone! Perhaps a box-off with Sconiers or Butterbean?!

 

Actually Golovkin fought Chavez Jr., though not in a real fight, but in a sparring session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xnyfnN4C6c

 

Golovkin sure got the best of Chavez in the sparring session, in a real fight he would stop Chavev. Chavez fought Ishida who went the distance with Paul Williams, was never hurt, nor knocked down. Golovkin went to Japan and knocked Ishida through the ropes and out cold in the third round!!!

 

yes his resume is crap for someone who is thought of so highly but i havent watched him alot, maybe another winky wright situation where he needs that one star name to give him a chance so the whole world can see what hes about

 

In my amateuristic opinion, Gennady Golovkin's Opposition:
(Opponents not named are "bums" or "tomato cans".)

C level opponents :
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John Anderson Carvalho (Beat Anderson Clayton). Record 19W-3L-1D att.

Malik Dziarra (Beat Mahir Oral). Record 29W-3L-0D at the time.

Makoto Fuchigami (Beat Koji Sato). Record 19W-6L-0D at the time.

Lajuan Simon (Beat Elvin Ayala). Golovkin is the first to KO him.
Rec 23W-3L-2D at the time.

Mehdi Bouadla (Record 11W-1L-0D at the time. Record is 28W-5L-0D now:
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Former IBF International super middleweight title-holder.
Former WBO Inter-Continental super middleweight title-holder.
Former WBA International middleweight title-holder.
Beat Morrade Hakkar (Former European middleweight champion).
Beat Michael Henrotin (Former IBF Inter-Continental super middleweight
title-holder).
Beat Francisco Antonio Mora.

(Past prime) Javier Alberto Mamani (Record 35W-7L-1D at the time):
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Beat Ariel Gabriel Chaves (Beat Carlos Manuel Baldomir X2).
Beat Crazy Kim (Beat Nobuhiro Ishida X2).
Beat Walter Javier Crucce (X2) (Beat a dude who beat Baldomir as well).
Beat Jose Joaquin Rosa Gomez (Beat Former WBA World lightweight
champion Raul Horacio Balbi).
Beat Miguel Angel Arroyo.

C+ level opponents:
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Nilson Julio Tapia (Record 14W-2L-1D at the time):
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Beat Santiago Samaniego (Former interim WBA World light
middleweight title-holder).
Beat Alfonso Mosquera (Also beat Santiago Samaniego).
Lost MD against Austin Trout (Former WBA World light middleweight champ).
Golovkin is the first to KO him.

(Past prime) Nobuhiro Ishida (Record 24W-8L-2D at the time):
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Former interim WBA World light middleweight title-holder.
Beat James Kirkland (first to defeat and to KO Kirkland).
Beat Javier Alberto Mamani (when it still mattered).
Golovkin is the first to KO him.

Ian Gardner (Record 20W-3L-0D at the time):
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Lost SD against Peter Manfredo Jr.
Beat Deandre Latimore (Beat Sechew Powell and SD loss to Cory Spinks
for the IBF light middleweight title).
Beat Troy Rowland (Beat Charles Whittaker).
Beat Kuvanych Toygonbayev (Beat Oba Carr & Andrey Tsurkan).
Beat Tokunbo Olajide.
Lost TKO 11 to Chad Dawson.

B- level (past prime) Kassim Ouma (Record 27W-7L-1D at the time):
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Former IBF light middleweight champion.
Beat Verno Phillips (X2) (Former IBF light middleweight champion).
Beat Marco Antonio Rubio (Beat Carlos Manuel Baldomir & David Lemieux).
Beat Sechew Powell (Beat Former IBF light middleweight champions Cornelius Bundrage & Ishe Smith).
Beat Alex Bunema (Beat Former IBF light welterweight champion Vince Phillips & IBF middleweight champ Roman Karmazin).
Beat Kuvanych Toygonbayev (Beat Oba Carr & Andrey Tsurkan).
Beat Kofi Jantuah (Beat Marco Antonio Rubio & Santiago Samaniego).
Beat Carlos Bojorquez (Beat Pernell Whitaker).
Beat Tony Marshall.

B level Grzegorz Proksa (Record 28W-1L-0D at the time):
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Former European middleweight champion.
The Ring's #10 Rated at the time.
Beat Sebastian Sylvester (Former IBF middleweight champion & European middleweight champion).
Beat Steve Conway (Former International Boxing Organization light middleweight champion).
Beat Pablo Navascues (Draw against Javier Castillejo).

B level Gabriel Rosado (Record 21W-5L-0D at the time):
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The Ring's #9 Rated at the time.
Beat Kassim Ouma (Former IBF light middleweight champion).
Beat Sechew Powell (Beat Former IBF light middleweight champions Cornelius Bundrage & Ishe Smith).
Beat Jesus Soto Karass (Beat former european welterweight champ Selcuk Aydin & former WBC/IBF welterweight champion Andre Berto).
Beat Charles Whittaker (IBF Light Middleweight rankings #2 Spot at the time).
Beat Saul Roman (Beat Marco Antonio Rubio, Kassim Ouma).

B+ level Matthew Macklin (Record 29W-4L-0D at the time):
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Former European middleweight champion.
Should have won the WBA Super World middleweight title.
The Ring's #5 Rated at the time.
Beat Felix Sturm (robbed) (former WBO & WBA middleweight champion).
Beat Joachim Alcine (former WBA World light middleweight champion).
Beat Amin Asikainen (former European middleweight champion).
Beat Luis Ramon Campas (former IBF light middleweight champion).
Beat Wayne El****.
Lost KO 11 to Sergio Gabriel Martinez (knocked down Martinez in round 7).

Upcoming:

C+ level Curtis Stevens 25W-3L-0D:
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The Ring's #9 Rated.
Beat Piotr Wilczewski (former european super middleweight champion).
Beat Saul Roman (Beat Marco Antonio Rubio, Kassim Ouma).
Beat Elvin Ayala (Draw against Sergio Mora).

 

Doable, but he'd be extremely lucky to even sign to fight these guys in the same year... chances are slim.

Why do I recall Murray saying he'd fight Golovkin in a heartbeat?! Couple weeks before the Wood fight announcement..?

You're right about Froch, the time is now. I'm thinking Froch will want this one at home, too... unless there's awesome money involved for it to be part of a great card say in Vegas (or MSG), PPV or not. He's the champ, and really high on himself right now. Even more after trashing Groves, I'm sure. Where as Golovkin would probably not mind going over since he's fought in lots of different countries, I believe HBO wouldn't be thrilled at the idea of having this high profile fight on tape delay, or real early in the evening. They'll have to sweeten the pot quite a bit for Froch & Hearn to agree to a Golovkin fight in the US.

No news on Lemieux, all we know is they'll try to work him up to championship contender status over the next year or so, title shot might only be late 2014, early 2015.