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Originally posted by Eastcoast
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I would love to find out! That is a fight that will test all of GGG's skills.
But guess what? Even though Gilberto is the bigger guy with almost every advantage, it's still his side, Bob Arum, avoiding the fight! They say they want it but for next year.
See the problem? GGG is so damn good, even guys who might be able to beat him, and who are way bigger than him, still want to duck him until he hits 35 years old. But yes, GGG-Ramirez is the most dangerous fight for GGG from 154 to 168, for sure. Degale just went life and death with Rogelio Medina, and got a gift decision. Ramirez would dominate Medina so he would probably dominate Degale too. Degale struggled with old Bute too, and lost to Groves. And Badou Jack is Badou Jack. So, while there is more focus on the PBC super middles because there are more of them, the best one clearly in my opinion in Zurdo.
That means GGG vs Zurdo would be #1 at 160 vs #1 at 168. But again the 168 is still ducking the 160. It's crazy but that's how good GGG is.
However, GGG-Jacobs is the second most dangerous fight for GGG. The most dangerous is Zurdo. Then Jacobs. Then Degale, Eubanks, Canelo are all tied for third, you can debate them since they're all different styles and different weights. I think GGG already beat potentially the most dangerous guy besides Zurdo and maybe Jacobs in David Lemieux. Lemieux is underrated because he did so bad against Rubio, but that was all down to stamina and bad training. Since then he evolved into a dominant middleweight champion which we saw the way he absolutely dominated Ndam and Rosado. Only Quillin dominated Ndam like that before, styles make fights and Quillin was way bigger, and no one not even GGG dominated Rosado once he got good like Lemieux did.
So those are the most dangerous fights for GGG...
1. Zurdo
2. Jacobs/Lemieux, and he already took out Lemieux
3. I'll give it to Degale over the other two just because he's bigger, but the others are probably better pound for pound
4. Eubank jr and Canelo tied
5. Saunders
6. Lara (yes he's faster than Saunders smaller, possibly less power, definitely less chin. I doubt he could disarm a middleweight with equal speed to him and more power like Eubank jr the way Saunders did)
I really hope after everyone has ducked GGG throughout basically his entire prime, that the top 5 will all step up by the end of 2017, and GGG will have a chance to make a legacy in his late 34/early 35 years when he might still be mostly in his prime. Once you hit 36 it's very iffy, but hopefully if those guys all step up, and if GGG can beat them all, then in early 2018 GGG can fight the Kovalev-Ward winner while he's still 35... that's pretty old to be taking such a hard fight but everyone ducked GGG throughout his prime so that's how it goes. They would be 34-35 by then too.
That's what I hope happens. But certainly if Zurdo, Jacobs, Eubanks, Degale, Canelo step up next year, it will be a banner year for GGG if he takes care of business. Those are the fights everyone wants to see. And of course Saunders just to get the belt.
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