Who wins my fantasy middleweight super series?

RJJ for me, Mr Untouchable.

 

Marvin had the reach and the speed to possibly have knocked out Roy.

GG has a small reach, little head movement and is slower.

He’s very hittable.

I don’t see how he’d have had the opportunity to have knocked Roy out.

 

I don’t think so.

I think it would have had a cautious U/D for Roy written all over it.

Continuously walking forward and not being deterred wouldn’t have meant that he’d have connected with something big at some point. Not from his angles.

Again, he has a small reach.

Roy was so elusive, with his great reflexes and his unorthodox style.

Marvin had fast hands, the southpaw stance and a 75” reach.

If Marvin had really gone after him, he could have found success.

GG is a great fighter, but very different.

Watching his fights against the likes of Jacobs and Canelo don’t give me the impression that he’d have found Roy’s chin.

Unfortunately, he never fought any elite fighters in his prime, and people will claim that he was faded against the likes of Jacobs and Canelo. And that’s fair enough. But for me, there’s just no evidence available to have favoured him over Roy at 25.

Yes, he has a great number of title defences, but IMHO, there’s many great MW’s who could have followed and replicated his same timeline. Although he’s great, to me, he only did what he was supposed to do.

If you watch his fights, and then you watch Roy easily knock out Malinga and Tate, before then fighting Toney just 6 months later, it’s extremely difficult to see how GG would have beaten Roy.

 

Death list mate. I never block, it’s a weakness, like quitting

 

Every now an then people get to big for their boots, so I pop em on the list, 24 hr thingy, it gets left in the tray unless there’s another mishap, then it gets passed on. That’s all I can say mate. Just don’t make it to the list ffs

 

I think he’d definitely have risen to the occasion. It’s just that he was too hittable with a small reach, whereas Roy was so elusive.

We know that he had the power to have taken Roy out, but he’d have needed the perfect opportunity to have landed it.

Roy fought plenty of technical fighters and guys who had power, but they didn’t find any sustained success until he’d started to slow down.

I can’t envisage a scenario where GG would have knocked out Roy. Roy wouldn’t have been there. His unorthodox style and his great speed would have kept him out of trouble.

With hindsight, GG probably should have moved up. But he was the perfect size for a MW. Perfect height, reach and frame. I don’t think he could have added a lot of mass and been as effective. He was just the perfect MW. But he couldn’t get the fights that would have given him a stronger resume. He was definitely avoided earlier in his career. I’m a big fan of BJS, but BJS openly admitted that he didn’t want to fight him, and he’s only moved up because he can no longer make the weight.

I do genuinely feel for GG. But then at the same time, I do think he’s overrated sometimes. Personally, I think that fights against Canelo and Jacobs etc, would always have played out the same, even if he’d have been in his prime. But of course, we’ll never know for sure.

 

I always thought that Billy was the real deal, but it’s been so frustrating watching his career.

For one reason or another, he’s missed a huge part of his prime.

I actually thought he was doing well against Canelo until the injury.

Without that injury, it would have been a very interesting second half to the fight. But the injury was caused by a legit punch, so you can’t use it as excuse.

I can see him retiring after maybe 1-2 fights.

He’s definitely wasted his talent.

Andre Dirrell was also a fighter who I liked to watch. And he wasted his potential too.

 

Before I can decide, I need to know the level of drugs testing involved....

I want to see a proper level playing field