Is Golovkin a hall of fame fighter? he is almost 34 and been pro 10 years

[therealpugilist]

Not yet but will be soon. He still has 5 good years left and will be in several significant fights. He also could eclipse Hopkins middleweight defense record if he wants to. He will get there easily.

what record???? title defenses for a trinket?? Hopkins defended the unified/lineal/undisputed title a total of 6 times....before he fought Trinidad in 2001 he fought a bunch of nobodies and washed up champs like Simon Brown, and John David Jackson while the other belts were out there and good fighters to boot


Carlos Monzon had 14 defenses of the lineal title, Marvelous Marvin Hagler had 12....both were univerally recognized as the man, because they were the man who beat the man....they earned the title and held the WBA, WBC in their reigns....Hagler held the IBF as well

GGG has one win over a reigning title holder, with no defenses.....that WBA title is a joke considering he was elevated and never beat anyone to be recognized as the WBA champion....Hell even Danny Jacobs has Qullin on his ledger with his WBA "reg" trinket



Neither GGG nor Hopkins holds any record nor are they close too it


As it stands, GGG has 0, defenses of the ibf title, no one knows how many because he was elevated with the wba, and 0 lineal



He has a long way to go for him to earn a spot in the hall of fame

[HanzGruber]

Yeah, GGG is already a HOFer and an ATG in the making

and before somebody questions GGG'S HOF credentials..one word: Gatti

[sugarsmosley]

Gatti would have wiped the floor with him.

[therealpugilist]

Prince Hamed is in the hall of fame. Anybody can get in the hall of fame. Hall of fames are a joke except the baseball Hall of fame.

Hamed was far more deserving than Barry McGuigan, Gatti and Ray freaking Mancini

Hamed cleaned out 126....all the belt holders, or when they were stripped for fighting him


Hamed is the most dominant featherweight of the last 30 years...since Salvador Sanchez



Barrera, Morales, JMM, Pac, Azumah Nelson, none of them guys ever unified or beat the other titleholders(Marquez did doe)


people get caught up in fighters personalities without even looing at who they fought




Hamed should have been in the hall of fame years ago......dude has a total of 37 fights and 9 were versus champions and he was the lineal featherweight champion several years......GGG has 34 and he only beat 3 former champions and it doesnt look like that number will be going up any soon considering how he is matched up

[about.thousands]

What did Hamed do to get in the Hall of Fame? Beat Kevin Kelly? Took a step up fight got his ass whooped and quit the sport forever. If he's in the HOF then GGG should be a unanimous choice. The boxing HOF is a joke.

[lopetego]

Gatti would have wiped the floor with him.

yeah, the welterweight no skill having punching bag who beat nobody of note would have ¨wiped the floor¨ with GGG. sure

YDKSAB or maybe you're just talking out of your racially motivated hate towards GGG, idk, anyway that was a moronic thing to say

Gatti was nothing but a punching bag

He got into the HOF because of popularity alone, mainly because of his entertaining matches with Ward and his tragic demise

GGG is currently one of the most popular fighters, and will be the face of boxing after he defeats Canelo and unifies the MW division, which is just a matter of time.

He's already viewed as the fighter who came to save boxing from the debacle after the Mayweather-Pacquiao match, getting the casuals interested again. The second coming of Mike Tyson in the way he dominates everyone in front of him, with highest KO% of any MW champ ever

If Gatti can be a HOFer then so can GGG

[j0zef]

Just because there are undeserving people in the HOF doesn't mean that should be the standard for it. It's a crappy reason to vote yes.

Right now, he doesn't deserve to be in the HOF. His resume isn't as weak as most GGG-trolls make it out to be, but it's definitely far from HOF.

[just the facts]

was Hopkins considered HOF at 34? Is Hopkins considered HOF bound now?

Hopkins is the exception, not the rule. Most professional fighters are done at an age g string is now. At 34 and with 400+ amateur fights under his belt, g string better suddenly be more receptive to fighting quality fighter if he is to be considers a HOF worthy fighter. No way in hell he will fight at a world class level into his late 40s like Hopkins did.

[Beercules]

Golovkin is a stiff euro bum.

[deanrw]

Just because there are undeserving people in the HOF doesn't mean that should be the standard for it. It's a crappy reason to vote yes.

Right now, he doesn't deserve to be in the HOF. His resume isn't as weak as most GGG-trolls make it out to be, but it's definitely far from HOF.

Exactly. He has a way to go. If we revisit this topic in a couple years, he then could belong in there. Even if he beat Canelo tomorrow I would still not be overwhelmed as I don't think Canelo is any great achievment. His body of work over more time will determine it.