What is Golovkin's single best, career defining win?

[Mooshashi]

Canelo and Jacobs. Either one.

[Larry the boss]

And to think 98% of this forum labeled Jacobs a bum who didn't deserve to be in the ring with GGG because of Pirog and the Mora knockdown. Turns out that was his legacy fight despite over 90% of the forum thinking he lost the night of the fight.

Crazy how things work

98 percent of this forum are trolls and biased posters..Jacobs is a very solid boxer

[Larry the boss]

thing with people who keep saying Canelo is he did not get those wins and his static will not be judged on that..he got a draw and a L..You can't just give someone an unofficial win..His best OFFICIAL WIN is Jacobs...but hey keep living in fantasy land if you want

[MulaKO]

And to think 98% of this forum labeled Jacobs a bum who didn't deserve to be in the ring with GGG because of Pirog and the Mora knockdown. Turns out that was his legacy fight despite over 90% of the forum thinking he lost the night of the fight.

Crazy how things work

I thought he lost against Jacobs but do admit many rounds could of gone either way
Best result would of been a draw
Anyone that thinks Jacob is not a good boxer is pretty clueless imo

[MulaKO]

thing with people who keep saying Canelo is he did not get those wins and his static will not be judged on that..he got a draw and a L..You can't just give someone an unofficial win..His best OFFICIAL WIN is Jacobs...but hey keep living in fantasy land if you want

Well said Larry
In the books it will always be a draw and a loss
An opinion is just that , an opinion
But official is official and no way to deny that

[Jedi Vader]

Either Jacobs or Canelo (first fight

Depends if you limit your analysis to the official decisions

My goodness me.

[Citizen Koba]

I'm hearing people call him an ATG.

What's his best career defining win?

I like the dude, enjoyed watching him come up from nothing, enjoyed the KO run against solid but unspectacular opponents but he hasn't got any single win that anyone can regard as exceptional. Jacobs has to be the best, but Danny's no more than a very good, but not elite, championship level fighter.

Very good fighter H2H but ATG Golovkin is not, even given the the fairly impressive length of his title reign. He just hasn't got the resume. You can credit the guy with consistency... and whatever else he had as good a record as almost anyone against top 10 guys in his division through the last decade, and the KO record remains impressive given the level.

Seems Golovkin's the guy many folk love to hate, perhaps because the results never quite matched the hype and the hopes, but it's sometimes lost that he did actually have a very solid winning streak even if it lacked real excellence.

Compare him to ATGs or even the true superstars and he's significantly lacking, compare him to most 'regular' fighters or even champions, few of whom make it past even a few defenses and it looks a lot better. I think gauging Golovkin's success really depends on what lens you're using.

4) Gennady Golovkin - 57.6 points

Record for the Decade: 22-1-1, 20 KO

Record Against Rated Opponents: 11-1-1

Rated Opponents in the 2010s: TKO5 Grzegorz Proksa (Ring #9 - 160), TKO7 Gabrial Rosado (Ring Unrated/TBRB #10 - 154), KO3 Matthew Macklin (Ring #5/TBRB #6 - 160), RTD8 Curtis Stevens (Ring #9/TBRB Unrated - 160), TKO3 Daniel Geale (Ring #2/TBRB #5 - 160), KO2 Marco Antonio Rubio (Ring #8/TBRB Unrated), TKO11 Martin Murray (Ring #6/TBRB #4 - 160), TKO8 David Lemieux (Ring/TBRB #4 - 160), TKO5 Kell Brook (Ring/TBRB #1 - 147), UD12 Daniel Jacobs (Ring/TBRB #2 - 160), D12 Saul Alvarez (Ring Champion/TBRB #2 -160), L12 Saul Alvarez (Ring/TBRB Unrated* - 160), UD12 Sergey Derevyanchenko (Ring #6/TBRB #3 - 160)

Only two accolades at middleweight have thus far escaped the grasp of the Kazakh knockout artist: the WBO belt and the lineal crown. Golovkin never had a chance at the former; there are still many who believe he earned the latter in his first battle with Saul Alvarez. While detractors pointed to a less than stellar middleweight class throughout his run, Golovkin faced a who’s who of the available top ten in much the same way Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins did until the big names emerged. Golovkin carried on his wait with devastating authority, starting the decade with 18 straight knockouts and ultimately unifying three of the four major alphabet titles in the only division he’s ever called home.

https://www.boxingscene.com/2010s-rankings-top-twenty-decade-5-1--146508

[DreamFighter]

his best win was beating titleholder Lemieux by KO.

Lem was a vacant title winner of zero defences. Its the lowest level of title win you could manage, but still a title win n the ring that Golovkin managed by the age of 35.

[pretty ste]

He definitely not an atg

[Death_Adder]

Jacobs is his best win.