GGG is a MW. Period.

[The Gambler1981]

OK, I can definitely agree with this.

BUT, him not moving up doesn't affect his legacy, whatsoever.

Marvin Hagler/prime B-Hop ring a bell?

As long as he has the guys to fight there it will work out just fine, and if he has longevity like those guys it would be very impressive. Long term success in this sport is always impressive because it is very rare, that is the long route to the top though those guys were viewed highly but were never viewed as the top guy until very deep into their career's.

In the near term if he wants to be considered the top guy in the sport he needs to beat Ward probably, but if he doesn't fight him no big deal no one is required to move up.

Plus using Ward as an example he is viewed very highly without moving up, now there hasn't been much at 175 until recently and 168 was hotter so it really just depends but Golovkin has a lot of quality work left he can do at 160 so he should be able to advance pretty far based on that.

[NearHypnos]

I agree the focus should be purely on 160 and nothing else, his fans need to stop bringing up Ward it is not Ward calling GGG, GGG himself and his team is not really seaking Ward out it is GGG fans seaking out Ward which I think is ***in ******!

GGG can have a Great Career cleaning out 160 than while at the top waiting for some of the current fighters at 154 eventually moving up to 160 and trying to take his Crown....That is what the great Marvin Hagler did!

Where you gonna get a Ray Leonard, Duran and Hearns, etc to come up from!? Only great fighter at 160 is Serg and he's ancient trying to fight someone without some big size advantage for a change lol. I do think he should dominate at 160 but he's so active there would literally be no one even fringe worthy after a year and a half lol. And everyone is expected to move up to fight him yet he should stay put? Get that outta here! Dude has skills, huge power and a beard! Let a lion be a lion. I think hes the truth and against the right smw he'd do good. I like his chances with Froch's clumsy looking ass (no disrespect to Froch love him). Froch is a big dude but he's limited and it would be a great fight! He could test the waters vs Bika.