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teodor
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teodor asked in SportsBoxing · 7 years ago

People are already comparing GGG with the ATG hardest hitters at 160?

Who are the fighters GG has beaten at middleweights that approximated the punching power of the ATGs like Robinson, Zale, LaMotta, Monzon, Hagler had fought and beaten to merit such?

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  • 7 years ago
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    LOL what people? Who? Grennady is a good fighter who has fought almost no real quality opposition, because lets face it, there just aren't any true "great" middleweights out their right now unless Hopkins drops 20 lbs and 20 years. Golvokin doesn't warrant anywhere near the elite status you are implying, he is good, but not great.

  • 7 years ago

    The funny thing about this question is that GGG is without a question way harder hitter than all of the boxers you mentioned. None of the likes of Robinson, Zale, LaMotta, and Monzon were considered to be super-heavy hitters really. The only one who was a hard hitter from the group you mentioned was Hagler but let's be honest here, he was very overrated and the opposition he faced was mediocre at best. Other than Thomas Hearns the rest of the boxers he beat were either cab drivers or smaller men and bloated middleweights like the great Duran.

  • teodor
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    The guy has not kayoed anybody out cold! Look at Jackson's KOs and Robinson's one pumch kayo of Bobo Olson and Gene Fullmer, themselves heavy handed Ko artists! Most of you guys don't know boxing--history and all!

    I am more convinced with Nonito Donaire's chilling power at bantamweight than GGG in the middleweights.

  • heres a list of the hardest punching middleweights IN ORDER

    1 Julian Jackson- Man floored EVERYBODY and was just such a dominating puncher go look at his ko recored.

    2.Sugar Ray Robinson- 108 kos.........need i say more the man had power

    3.Gennady Golovkin- the man has straight power look at his last 4 fights he kos Macklin WHO WENT INTO THE 11TH WITH SERGIO MARTINEZ THEN HE KOS CURTIS STEVENS WHO HADNT BEEN KOD SINCE 2006,THEN HE KOS Adama who had never been kod then this last fight he knocks out Geale WHO HAD NEVER BEEN KOD

    4.Marvin Hagler I seriously hate putting him up here because If youve studied boxing you know it wasnt freak power that helped Marvin.It was a combination of an awesome CHIN and relentless attacking.Marvin hit very hard but most of the time he beat people by just beating them down round after round.he did not floor people like Golovkin or Jackson.but all in all he did hit hard

    5 Gerald McClellan when he finished his career he was 31-2 with 29 kos basically if he fought you then normally you went down.he was a great puncher who had a good chin the only ko of his career was late in the 10 round of his last fight to Benn.even in that fight he knocked benn through the ropes.the man kod julian jackson twice john Mugabi in 1 round.

  • 7 years ago

    GGG is the greatest KO artist in middleweight history. What's so strange about it? If he fought back in Sugar's or Lamotta's era we would now consider him the GOAT. He's THAT good.

  • 7 years ago

    Is he not? 90% KO is more than enough to proved that he is the hardest hitter. We can not use different era in categorizing who the hardest hitter was since nobody knows who really hit the hardest. We can only used statistics as our basis and nothing else.

  • 7 years ago

    Put him in there against a skilled defensive counter puncher that knows how to box. He'd have a tough time trying to look for the knockout with his "power".

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    GGG has potential of dominating the weight class for a long time.

  • 7 years ago

    GGG IS GREAT!

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