Better Resume: Chavez Jr. or Golovkin?

[Citizen Koba]

If you just count opponent level it's Jr by a country mile - if you're looking at opponents beaten it's pretty close probably going to Jr, if you take opponents beaten uncontroversially it's Golovkin, if one takes into account the manner of victory against similar opposition it's Golovkin and ain't close.

Curiously Abel Sanchez paints Jr as one of the fights he'd really like to see for GGG, and I guess if the kid was motivated it could be, but the blob that got outworked by Vera brings nothing to the table but a fat paycheck and the ability to take a beating.

[LacedUp]

Voted Golovkin, meant to vote Chavez jr.

[Tay Roc]

Chavez Jr. is somewhere smoking a J right now nodding in approval.

[soul_survivor]

Junior, he got mad stick for his run with the WBC title but he beat guys like a prime Lee, Rubio and a few others, all of them better than 99.9% of names on GGGs resume...he also stopped those guys yet GGG gets mad love but Junior gets hate.

[HeroBando]

Junior, he got mad stick for his run with the WBC title but he beat guys like a prime Lee, Rubio and a few others, all of them better than 99.9% of names on GGGs resume...he also stopped those guys yet GGG gets mad love but Junior gets hate.

He didn't stop those guys, he stopped fragile Andy Lee, non top 10 rated. He has like 2 stoppages in the past 9 fights. 1 Ring rated top 10 win in Zbik, who many had winning.

[BafanaBafana]

I find it funny that GGG's best win (Macklin) was one of Martinez's left overs. Golovkin's best win had already been stopped by Martinez and had only gotten (less than) one round in 16 months when GGG got to him.

And now he's fighting Chavez Jr's left over in Andy Lee, which will probably be the 2nd best fighter on his resume.

[Humean]

Golovkin, it is not just who you beat but also the manner of victory. As quality opponents Rubio, Zbik, Lee is pretty much comparable to Macklin, Proksa, Stevens, Rosado, Adama but Golovkin lost at most 2 rounds in those 5 fights whereas Chavez's fights were a lot more competitive. Indeed the Zbik decision could easily have went Zbik's way, Chavez lost at least a few rounds against Rubio and was losing to Lee before he stopped him. The idea that Chavez's resume is better than Golovkin's does not withstand reason.