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That's a pretty broad brush to paint with, lol.
Billy Joe Saunders and Daniel Jacobs are both live fighters with Golovkin, for the simple fact that they've had their skills tested against other quality fighters and have shown ability to do things that Golovkin has obvious trouble with (people laugh when I use the barometer but Gabriel Rosado and Willie Monroe Jr both showed that, when you get over the 'GGG' mistyique and actually box/fight[without out-and-out running], Golovkin is there to be beat on, on the inside but also simply punching with him with straight shots).
Canelo may not be p4p "better" than Lara, but the way that he acquitted himself in fights, Floyd performance aside, against Khan, Cotto, Kirkland, Trout, Lara, etc, laid the marker that Alvarez was a legit world-level fighter.
Rigondeaux's only "name" is Nonito Donaire, but he showed otherworldly ability in his other fights and, when put into the ring against a guy that the boxing public viewed as being an elite fighter at the weight, the way he utterly wrecked Donaire started to confirm how good people thought Rigondeaux was.
People want to ignore the possibility, but Golovkin could've stepped into the ring and got 12-0 blitzed by Andre Ward, and there'd be nothing that anyone could really say about it, for the simple fact that there has yet to be a real gauge as to how good Golovkin may actually be.
Lastly, Manny Pacquiao isn't a better fighter than Floyd at anything, tbh; to try and throw that out as some accepted fact is odd.
Floyd whoops Pacquiao at 154, 147, 140, 135, 130, 126 (Floyd was a 18/19-year old amateur at 125), and likely whoops Pacquiao at 115 (Floyd was a 17-year old amateur at 114; 19-year old Pacquiao vs 17-year old Floyd is likely the most competitive fight)
Billy Joe Saunders and Daniel Jacobs are both live fighters with Golovkin, for the simple fact that they've had their skills tested against other quality fighters and have shown ability to do things that Golovkin has obvious trouble with (people laugh when I use the barometer but Gabriel Rosado and Willie Monroe Jr both showed that, when you get over the 'GGG' mistyique and actually box/fight[without out-and-out running], Golovkin is there to be beat on, on the inside but also simply punching with him with straight shots).
Canelo may not be p4p "better" than Lara, but the way that he acquitted himself in fights, Floyd performance aside, against Khan, Cotto, Kirkland, Trout, Lara, etc, laid the marker that Alvarez was a legit world-level fighter.
Rigondeaux's only "name" is Nonito Donaire, but he showed otherworldly ability in his other fights and, when put into the ring against a guy that the boxing public viewed as being an elite fighter at the weight, the way he utterly wrecked Donaire started to confirm how good people thought Rigondeaux was.
People want to ignore the possibility, but Golovkin could've stepped into the ring and got 12-0 blitzed by Andre Ward, and there'd be nothing that anyone could really say about it, for the simple fact that there has yet to be a real gauge as to how good Golovkin may actually be.
Lastly, Manny Pacquiao isn't a better fighter than Floyd at anything, tbh; to try and throw that out as some accepted fact is odd.
Floyd whoops Pacquiao at 154, 147, 140, 135, 130, 126 (Floyd was a 18/19-year old amateur at 125), and likely whoops Pacquiao at 115 (Floyd was a 17-year old amateur at 114; 19-year old Pacquiao vs 17-year old Floyd is likely the most competitive fight)
Quite convenient.
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