Did he actually tie Hopkins' record or is this just boxing industry propaganda to hype Golovkin?
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Did Golovkin really tie Hopkins' title fight streak?
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Yes he did under the accepted practices of the sanctioning bodies. Whether that is meaningful is up for debate. I think Hopkins had a no contest (maybe two) counted as a sucessfull defense so his record is also debatable. It doesn't matter because it doesn't say much about how good a fighter really is.
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nope. Boxing has never acknowledged the defense streak of secondary belts...until the media suddenly did so in a unprecedented move to inflate GGG's career. He won a vacate Interim belt that was later promoted to the WBA regular belt beneath the true WBA champion. He then defended that BS for years. It wasn't until 4 years later that he won the true WBA champ over Geale. His real streak started the fight after that against Rubio and even if you count the clown Vanes fight and Brook fight (both fights in which 1 or more of the belt orgs said it was a mismatch and refused to sanction the fight) the grand total of defenses would be a unimpressive 9 no where near the record which was 20.Last edited by bigdunny1; 11-20-2018, 01:29 PM.
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Originally posted by Snowballer View PostDid he actually tie Hopkins' record or is this just boxing industry propaganda to hype Golovkin?
Course there's also the argument about why Sturm was elevated instead of being stripped at the start of GGG title run, but that's another story.
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