How would you honestly rate Golovkin?

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A stellar amateur fighter, and a fighter who was on the way to maybe being something special as a pro, before getting with Abel Sanchez and having his whole style ******ed in a way to become stereotypically "TV friendly".

He's a B/B+ fighter who had the chance to maybe develop into an A- fighter had he not have gone with Abel Sanchez.

Word to the wise.....a fighter who has 21 title fight victories with zero losses, beat the no.2 and no.3 fighters in the division and is P4P no.1 is not a B/B+ fighter chief lol

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He's the best middleweight since Hopkins/Taylor.

Pavlik ko'd Taylor lol but he wasn't better lol yeah good call

He's the best since Hopkins and by the time he's done, his 160 resume will be better too.

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In this era he has been the best Middleweight for some time now.
I rate him an A for the era and a B- in history.
Good boxer good power and comes to his fights in shape and is willing to win. A top fifty Middleweight.

Ray

Name 10 better middleweights and I'll keep this off my signature.....

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You put anyone in front of him with some boxing craft and toughness, and Golovkin ends up becoming an ordinary fighter. Has happened in too many fights to really be argued otherwise.

Geale not really being able to punch did him in, but Rosado, Geale, Brook, Jacobs, and Canelo all provided windows into what Golovkin reverts when put in with someone who can actually fight; eat punches with his face, march forward, and try to get busy with a jab while he hopes that you set your feet for him to fire.

There are too many things that Golovkin doesn't do to earnestly rate him much higher than a B.

For the record, anyone who says that GGG is a B fighter is either a hater or an idiot.

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Golovkin is a pressure fighter, and pressure fighters are usually well over the hill by 32/33. The fact that GGG - a clean pressure fighter - is still undefeated and rated as the best MW in the world at the age of 36 should say everything that needs to be said about how good he is. In his prime GGG was one of the best MWs ever, imo.

Great post. Spot on

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GGG is a good fighter with a very average resume. Fought 2 top level fighters and coulda lost both.

Hes not an atg and imo has wasted his talent.

Do you even realize that he beat 4 of the top 9 middleweights behind him in the current rankings?

And you say he wasted his career?
I think you meant to say other middleweights tried wasting his career by avoiding him. Martinez wanted none. Cotto wanted none. Canelo wanted none. And BJS wanted none. And for good reason. GGG would have knocked any one of them out 3 years ago. Now he's older they'll just lose decisions if they survive.

At least know what you're talking about before you post.

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how can you rate him? hes just a prospect until he steps up. we all saw what happened to ocampo. i think the same happens to ggg against charlo

Man I tell ya, you're one awesome troll or just a big fkn idiot. You never cease to surprise me lol

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Avoided this thread because it's hard to give an honest grade w/o people freaking the *** out. I like GG but just as the same with Pac, his fans are often rabid and many are uneducated in the science so they just get emotional rather than actually debate points.

In his division, at this point in time, I give him an A-. Against nobodies, he looked surreal. The two competent fighters he's faced have definitely humanized him. But, not to the point that he's B-level right now.

In an all-time sense though; B. That doesn't mean he's a "B-fighter". Just that on a 13-point scale between F and A+, he sits at a '9', which would be B. A lot of people here are going to struggle with that you simply can't take a guy whose best work is 2 very close fights against Jacobs and Canelo and say he's more than a B in an all-time sense. There's still time for him to rank up though.

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Man I tell ya, you're one awesome troll or just a big fkn idiot. You never cease to surprise me lol

Stop the replying and go get some fresh air. You can thank me later. The guy is making obvious jokes and you're on the fence as to whether he's serious??.....
For ***'s sake....

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I rate him as fun to watch, murderous destroyer when he doesn't have to worry about the other guys power, technical af and methodical when he does. I'd prefer he stay in assassin mode but I get why he switches mode. I'm hoping he goes after Canelo for good or bad and I hope Canelo does the same.

Good post! I agree. He's smart enough to know when to not chance his luck but still always tries to make a fight exciting. You can't ask a whole lot more from a fighter than that.