Prime Jermain Taylor vs. Gennady Golovkin.

[Foreign Soil]

its so unfortunate for golovkin to be in this ****ty middleweight era lol.

Taylor's era was great?

[Spray_resistant]

Taylor is more of good athlete than he ever was a fighter. The guy has no killer instinct, durability, and seems to aim for a safe jabbing match at range without the ability to stop an opponent who is having none of that.

GGG stops him in a few rounds.

[joseph5620]

Taylor's era was great?

Hopkins, Pavlik, Winky Wright, Abraham, Taylor. It was much better than it is now.

[intoccabile]

Taylor lost to Spinks -.-;

[ИATAS]

Unless the MW last name is Haggler or someone of that... esteem, they don't stand a chance against GGG. I'm not saying GGG would beat some or all of the greats, I'm only saying I feel those are the kinds of the names that it will take to beat him.

Nah prime Hopkins would have beat Golovkin. Jones too.

Taylor dies though.

[Beater_of_ass]

Nah prime Hopkins would have beat Golovkin. Jones too.

Taylor dies though.

I would put Hopkins and Jones up there with Haggler, in the same category/level of fighter.

[GOD-FR33]

I would put Hopkins and Jones up there with Haggler, in the same category/level of fighter.

I don't. Hagler is the middleweight G.O.A.T. He would pound both Hopkin's and RJ.

[Beater_of_ass]

I don't. Hagler is the middleweight G.O.A.T. He would pound both Hopkin's and RJ.

I didn't say they would win, they are some of the best MW's of all time regardless and the kinds of names it would take to beat GGG.

[GOD-FR33]

I didn't say they would win, they are some of the best MW's of all time regardless and the kinds of names it would take to beat GGG.

Oh, okay. Just remember this about Roy Jones; back then he fought a lot unworthy fighters. Taxi cab drivers, firemen, policemen, etc. What we didn't know all of that time, is that he could not take a punch. That is why I was like nope. LoL. Roy gets KO'ed against Hagler. Hopkin's would get beat up as well. He didn't have the work-rate, skill-set, or punch to keep Hagler off of him. I think Roy is the fastest fighter I ever seen inside a boxing ring but it wouldn't have helped him against A Level fighters of today or yesterday. Triple G KO's Roy and possibly outworks Hopkin's. Hopkin's has a better shot to defeat Triple G than Roy, but I think he would get outworked. Hopkin's low punch output is a weakness in the same way that Floyd's low punch output per round, is.

[ИATAS]

Oh, okay. Just remember this about Roy Jones; back then he fought a lot unworthy fighters. Taxi cab drivers, firemen, policemen, etc. What we didn't know all of that time, is that he could not take a punch. That is why I was like nope. LoL. Roy gets KO'ed against Hagler. Hopkin's would get beat up as well. He didn't have the work-rate, skill-set, or punch to keep Hagler off of him. I think Roy is the fastest fighter I ever seen inside a boxing ring but it wouldn't have helped him against A Level fighters of today or yesterday. Triple G KO's Roy and possibly outworks Hopkin's. Hopkin's has a better shot to defeat Triple G than Roy, but I think he would get outworked. Hopkin's low punch output is a weakness in the same way that Floyd's low punch output per round, is.

Pretty big misconception on NSB that Hopkins had a low output. Yeah he does now that he's old, at middleweight in his prime he didn't have a low output. Watch Hopkins vs Glen Johnson, Echols, etc. He's was more of a seek & destroy type fighter back then, as he aged he threw less and became more defensive.