He competed in the 2004 Olympics and won silver.
In that same Olympics, the likes of Gamboa, Rigondeaux, Amir Khan, Andre Dirrell, Andre Ward, Solis and Povetkin competed. Interestingly enough Golovkin and Dirrell fought in the same weight division.
After 10 years as a pro Golovkin is yet to fight at least one challenge, still opting to face easy opponents and fighters moving up in weight. Whilst all the others, have had more than there fair share of worthy opponents.
It makes you question Golovkin even more when fighters like Lomachenko are testing themselves within ten fights.
It's only fair that fans ask Golovkin to move up to the weight division he belongs and face fighters that are around his same size and skill level. It's laughable that he even thinks of himself as A-side without even beating anyone with a pulse!
Former great Olympic medalists have all moved up in weight to test themselves - De La Hoya, Mayweather, Roy Jones Jnr, Whitaker, Leonard - it's only right that Golovkin does too so we can see what he is well and truly made of.
So we're just going to pretend Felix Sturm, Sergio Martinez, N'dam, Cotto, Canelo, Chavez jr and Froch turned him down right? Additionally Dmitry Pirog and Andy Lee fights fell apart (Pirog injured & GGG had to pulled out the Lee fight due to fathers passing). Yeah Golovkin doesn't have the greatest resume right now but there is a legit reason for that (obviously if these guys fought him his resume would be much better).
No matter, he's fighting a unification bout, trying to be the first man to unify all the middleweight titles together since Hopkins & has his mandatory status in place after that for Canelo/Cotto.
Quillin wouldn't fight him either.
In his defense he fights in the weakest division out of all those guys. Even if he beat the guys that ducked him his resume would be sub-par compared to his talent level.
You can't help who is in your division but you can make an effort to find ways to challenge yourself and take some risks to prove you're the best.
Golovkin should be fighting at 168.what a fantastic rebuttal, absolutely masterful *sarcasm
why should he move up when he is in another title fight, and is set to face another title fight with the winner of cotto and canelo?
So we're just going to pretend Felix Sturm, Sergio Martinez, N'dam, Cotto, Canelo, Chavez jr and Froch turned him down right? Additionally Dmitry Pirog and Andy Lee fights fell apart (Pirog injured & GGG had to pulled out the Lee fight due to fathers passing). Yeah Golovkin doesn't have the greatest resume right now but there is a legit reason for that (obviously if these guys fought him his resume would be much better).
No matter, he's fighting a unification bout, trying to be the first man to unify all the middleweight titles together since Hopkins & has his mandatory status in place after that for Canelo/Cotto.
Spare me the it's everybody else's fault argument. They used to say the same thing about Keith Thurman. Once Haymon started paying top contender money Keith miraculously landed on the top of every other fighters hit list. When K2 starts paying top dollar fighters will be lining up.
So we're just going to pretend Felix Sturm, Sergio Martinez, N'dam, Cotto, Canelo, Chavez jr and Froch turned him down right? Additionally Dmitry Pirog and Andy Lee fights fell apart (Pirog injured & GGG had to pulled out the Lee fight due to fathers passing). Yeah Golovkin doesn't have the greatest resume right now but there is a legit reason for that (obviously if these guys fought him his resume would be much better).
No matter, he's fighting a unification bout, trying to be the first man to unify all the middleweight titles together since Hopkins & has his mandatory status in place after that for Canelo/Cotto.
Golovkin should be fighting at 168.
So we're just going to pretend Felix Sturm, Sergio Martinez, N'dam, Cotto, Canelo, Chavez jr and Froch turned him down right? Additionally Dmitry Pirog and Andy Lee fights fell apart (Pirog injured & GGG had to pulled out the Lee fight due to fathers passing). Yeah Golovkin doesn't have the greatest resume right now but there is a legit reason for that (obviously if these guys fought him his resume would be much better).
No matter, he's fighting a unification bout, trying to be the first man to unify all the middleweight titles together since Hopkins & has his mandatory status in place after that for Canelo/Cotto.
When did Canelo turn down GGG? As far as im concerned there was never an offer sent from GGG's team to Canelo's. (Your argument on the Lara-GGG fight)