Can Carl Froch "Bute" Golovkin?

[Heavyfist]

Bute was unproven, a bum pretty much.

So no.

The Bute win wasn't that impressive, really.

[lightsout15]

Golovkin "Bute'd" Bute way before Froch did.Golovkin knocked out bute in the ams with headgear on. lol

[kiaba360]

Froch broke Bute mentally. I don't see Froch being able to break GGG, even if he does beat him.

[ShoulderRoll]

Bute was unproven, a bum pretty much.

So no.

The Bute win wasn't that impressive, really.

Bute hadn't fought an elite opponent prior to Froch. I think the same holds for GGG. In that sense the two are comparable although they may be different in other areas.

[Jim Jeffries]

Bute hadn't fought an elite opponent prior to Froch. I think the same holds for GGG. In that sense the two are comparable although they may be different in other areas.

The biggest differences I see are that Bute benefited from the best fighters at 168 being tied up in a tourney with each other for several years and was saved from an embarrassing KO loss to the extremely limited Andrade by a shameful ref. He also wasn't on anything approaching a 20 KO streak. There was still a lot of rather unwarranted hype surrounding Bute at the time he fought Froch though.

[HEND]

Silver medalist at the Olympics,with an amature record of 345-5. Pro record or 33-0 with 30 kos,and his last 20 fights have come by way of KO or tko. Holds 2 belts in his weightclass,and the only guy who could give him any trouble is at 168,and #2 p4p in the sport (when active) and yet GGG has no boxing skills,and is a face first fighter? Are you a casual,or just ******?

NO-BO-DY CA-RES about fucking amateur records, no matter how many times do you guys tell them Only thing matter among pros are pro resumes, period.

With that being said I don't think that the same will happen as on Froch-Bute but I see it as a 50-50 fight now. But the "Bute was always vulnerable and he looked bad, hypejob etc.." are mostly BS. After the smoke clears everybody is smart and knew it already before it happened (the exposing of Bute). Same would happen if Golovkin would be KO-d in a same fashion or would just beaten by Froch in a dominant way -->People would be smart afterwards and when the next monster would come they would compare him to Golovkin like "he is not like Golovkin, Golovkin always showed weaknesses, etc..."

So for me it's a 50-50

[Mooshashi]

Froch makes more money fighting DeGale in the UK at a sold out Wembley, and gets a possible beating against GGG for less cash, so I have no idea why he'd fight GGG, even in the UK where they wouldn't sell out Wembley.

But it would be a great fight since neither guy backs down or is inclined to dance around for 12 rounds.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Maybe... I think the froch that thrashed bute could beat Golovkin, but not sure about the froch that was getting hurt and outboxed by groves.. Gennady is peaking as a fighter and froch is clearly on the downhill if not almost completely done at top level..

I favor Golovkin 60/40 but froch probably snaps GGG's stoppage streak..

I think froch/GGG is one of the best fights to make in boxing

[Evil Abed]

Froch makes more money fighting DeGale in the UK at a sold out Wembley, and gets a possible beating against GGG for less cash, so I have no idea why he'd fight GGG, even in the UK where they wouldn't sell out Wembley.

But it would be a great fight since neither guy backs down or is inclined to dance around for 12 rounds.

The GGG fight is bigger anywhere. More money.

[Dr Rumack]

Doubt it. Who knows how Golovkin will react when he gets cracked by a smw though.

I don't think he'd get bootayed because he's a sharp enough counter-puncher when he's pressed. You can catch him with flurries, but pushing him back and opening yourself up is a different matter.