I don't care if you're as old as Yoda's nutsack mate, you're talking out of your arse.Kalan wrote:LOOK.. I've been around for a very long time and boxers today are better. A lot of "experts" who confidently say a boxer from the past would knock out a fighter today in "5 rounds" if they bet on real fights they'd soon be broke. They have ZERO idea what they're looking at. You can't make water faster and swimmers today are smashing records. Divers, skaters, and gymnasts are preforming at a much higher degree of difficulty. No top Heavyweight of the 70's 80's or 90's had the combination of height, weight, reach, strength, speed, power, and intelligence Joshua has.jezzamundo wrote: Only the blind can watch heavyweight boxing from the 70s, 80s and 90s, then watch more recent fights and believe today's heavyweights are superior. The difference isn't so big in other weight divisions, but it's there.
Take a list of some top Heavyweights today: 1. Tyson Fury... 2. Anthony Joshua... 3. Luis Ortiz... 4. Deontay Wilder... 5. Wladimir Klitschko... 6. Alexander Povetkin... 7. David Haye... 8. Andy Ruiz... 9. Joseph Parker... 10. Erkan Teper... 11. Bryant Jennings... 12. Hughie Fury... 13. Charles Martin... 14. Kubrat Pulev... 15. Johann Duhaupas... 16. Ruslan Chagaev... 17. Bermane Stiverne... 18. Lucas Browne... 19. Malik Scott... 20. Carlos Takam... 21. Mike Perez... 22. Alexander Ustinov... 23. Dereck Chisora... 24. Christian Hammer... 25. Robert Helenius... 26. Steve Cunningham... 27. Czar Glazkov... 27. Arnold Gjergjaj... 28. Amir Mansour... 30. Artur Szpilka...
And compare them to some of the very small and weak ranked Heavyweight Title Challengers from the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s.. Don Cockell.. Roland LaStarza.. Tom McNeely.. Pete Rademacher.. Brian London.. Henry Cooper.. Alfredo Evangelista.. Jean Pierre Coopman.. Leon Spinks.. Terry Daniels.. Dave Zyglewitz.. Manuel Ramos.. Ron Stander.. Richard Dunn.. Now Chuck Wepner was 6'5" X 225, but he wasn't strong, fast, fit, skilled, elusive, or coordinated. He was very soft and squishy looking. He went 15 with Ali, but he might be gone in 15 seconds with AJ.
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That's size, not athleticism. You're getting confused.ikorolev wrote:Of course, it isn't. But if a good MW fights a good WW, who would win ?Counter-puncher wrote:Dude, boxing isn't merely an athletic exercise. Skills, or in the modern era the lack of them, make a much bigger contribution than mere athleticism
Otherwise jermain Taylor would be an ATG.
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So you were a kid when Ali lost his licence for refusing to go to Vietnam, but you were also ringside for SRR's prime, care to explain that pal?Kalan wrote:That's a lot of emotional crap and BS you just wrote...do you need a crying towel??? LaMotta was a super hittable punching bag and lost a ton of fights. He had a KO ratio of 28% so he was no puncher either. He knocked Robinson down and beat him in 1 fight as terrible as he was .... Robinson wasn't 130 for Turpin. Don't talk like and idiot .... Golovkin WANTED to fight Ward but his coach Abel Sanchez wanted an acclimation fight at 168 FIRST!!! They tried to get 168 acclimation fights with Rodriguez, Oosthuizen, Chavez, and Froch at 168. All those fights were mysteriously scuttled. Ward wants THREE (3) acclimation fights before he fights Kovalev and Golovkin can't have ONE (1)??? .... Ward was a HUGE Super Middleweight and Golovkin is a small Middleweight. But Golovkin will DIFINITELY fight Ward in a few years and beat him easy at 175 and beat Kovalev too .... Robinson fought til he was past 40 and Golovkin can do the same. He had 350 amateur fights so he got a very late start as a pro. Then you have all the duckers like Martinez, Cotto, and Canelo who slowed down GGG's progress. The powers that be are trying to age GGG so they can get him beat .... If GGG fought 20 times in a year like Robinson did some years he'd have 200 fights by now. But he doesn't knock over 20 bums to pad his record and then lose to a good fighter like Robinson did .... A boxer's record in Title Defense is more important than his overall record because it's tougher to fight bums in Title Fights. Robinson's record in Middleweight Title defenses is 3-3 with 2 KO's and GGG's is 16-0 with 16 KO's .... If Robinson had such a masterful jab and footwork as Golovkin has, why did SRR LOSE to such unskilled swingers as LaMotta, Fullmer, Jones, Basilio, Turpin, and Pender??? .... Boxing Experts are full of crap. They never boxed and their blatherings are laughable .... I'm not as old as Bob Arum is. He's older than dirt .... I didn't say GGG was the GOAT but he's the top Middleweight .... Ali lost to the much shorter and smaller Joe Frazier (a wide-open walk-in left hooker) and to the very hittable and chinny Ken Norton when he was much younger than Triple-G is today. Ali wasn't as consistent, disciplined or as astute a trainer as GGG is and neither was Sugar Ray Robinson... That's why they started falling off a lot earlier... GGG HAS to be disciplined because he's not an American, he's a Kazakh and it's been much tougher for him fighting the Boxing Establishment ... Ali was my hero as a kid because I was dead against the stupid Viet Nam War. So I think Ali's a great human being but he wasn't the best Heavyweight ever. He was a little light on defense and punching power.Badhusker wrote: He fought LaMotta and gave up 15 lbs at the scale. Would GGG do that? No, he was afraid to test himself against Ward ... 25 years in the ring, starting out at 135 ... SRR sloppy footwork, jab, etc? You must be smoking some good stuff. He was on about fight 130 when he fought Turpin ... SRR is regarded as the number one pfp of all time by most experts ... You must be about Arum's age ... GGG is great, but is far from the #1 GOAT that you and a couple others seem to think. Its like someone saying they saw Ali in the mid and late 70's and he wasn't that good
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runner_phob
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Re: Your Unbiased Opinion on GGG's Career...
No, he is not. A current good welterweight is about as strong and durable as middleweights from 50s, and they are often about the same size.jamesmcdonnell wrote:That's size, not athleticism. You're getting confused.ikorolev wrote:Of course, it isn't. But if a good MW fights a good WW, who would win ?Counter-puncher wrote:Dude, boxing isn't merely an athletic exercise. Skills, or in the modern era the lack of them, make a much bigger contribution than mere athleticism
Otherwise jermain Taylor would be an ATG.
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SaadOffTheDeck
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jamesmcdonnell wrote:So you were a kid when Ali lost his licence for refusing to go to Vietnam, but you were also ringside for SRR's prime, care to explain that pal?Kalan wrote:That's a lot of emotional crap and BS you just wrote...do you need a crying towel??? LaMotta was a super hittable punching bag and lost a ton of fights. He had a KO ratio of 28% so he was no puncher either. He knocked Robinson down and beat him in 1 fight as terrible as he was .... Robinson wasn't 130 for Turpin. Don't talk like and idiot .... Golovkin WANTED to fight Ward but his coach Abel Sanchez wanted an acclimation fight at 168 FIRST!!! They tried to get 168 acclimation fights with Rodriguez, Oosthuizen, Chavez, and Froch at 168. All those fights were mysteriously scuttled. Ward wants THREE (3) acclimation fights before he fights Kovalev and Golovkin can't have ONE (1)??? .... Ward was a HUGE Super Middleweight and Golovkin is a small Middleweight. But Golovkin will DIFINITELY fight Ward in a few years and beat him easy at 175 and beat Kovalev too .... Robinson fought til he was past 40 and Golovkin can do the same. He had 350 amateur fights so he got a very late start as a pro. Then you have all the duckers like Martinez, Cotto, and Canelo who slowed down GGG's progress. The powers that be are trying to age GGG so they can get him beat .... If GGG fought 20 times in a year like Robinson did some years he'd have 200 fights by now. But he doesn't knock over 20 bums to pad his record and then lose to a good fighter like Robinson did .... A boxer's record in Title Defense is more important than his overall record because it's tougher to fight bums in Title Fights. Robinson's record in Middleweight Title defenses is 3-3 with 2 KO's and GGG's is 16-0 with 16 KO's .... If Robinson had such a masterful jab and footwork as Golovkin has, why did SRR LOSE to such unskilled swingers as LaMotta, Fullmer, Jones, Basilio, Turpin, and Pender??? .... Boxing Experts are full of crap. They never boxed and their blatherings are laughable .... I'm not as old as Bob Arum is. He's older than dirt .... I didn't say GGG was the GOAT but he's the top Middleweight .... Ali lost to the much shorter and smaller Joe Frazier (a wide-open walk-in left hooker) and to the very hittable and chinny Ken Norton when he was much younger than Triple-G is today. Ali wasn't as consistent, disciplined or as astute a trainer as GGG is and neither was Sugar Ray Robinson... That's why they started falling off a lot earlier... GGG HAS to be disciplined because he's not an American, he's a Kazakh and it's been much tougher for him fighting the Boxing Establishment ... Ali was my hero as a kid because I was dead against the stupid Viet Nam War. So I think Ali's a great human being but he wasn't the best Heavyweight ever. He was a little light on defense and punching power.Badhusker wrote: He fought LaMotta and gave up 15 lbs at the scale. Would GGG do that? No, he was afraid to test himself against Ward ... 25 years in the ring, starting out at 135 ... SRR sloppy footwork, jab, etc? You must be smoking some good stuff. He was on about fight 130 when he fought Turpin ... SRR is regarded as the number one pfp of all time by most experts ... You must be about Arum's age ... GGG is great, but is far from the #1 GOAT that you and a couple others seem to think. Its like someone saying they saw Ali in the mid and late 70's and he wasn't that good
No way that poster is over 18.
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SaadOffTheDeck wrote:jamesmcdonnell wrote:So you were a kid when Ali lost his licence for refusing to go to Vietnam, but you were also ringside for SRR's prime, care to explain that pal?Kalan wrote:
That's a lot of emotional crap and BS you just wrote...do you need a crying towel??? LaMotta was a super hittable punching bag and lost a ton of fights. He had a KO ratio of 28% so he was no puncher either. He knocked Robinson down and beat him in 1 fight as terrible as he was .... Robinson wasn't 130 for Turpin. Don't talk like and idiot .... Golovkin WANTED to fight Ward but his coach Abel Sanchez wanted an acclimation fight at 168 FIRST!!! They tried to get 168 acclimation fights with Rodriguez, Oosthuizen, Chavez, and Froch at 168. All those fights were mysteriously scuttled. Ward wants THREE (3) acclimation fights before he fights Kovalev and Golovkin can't have ONE (1)??? .... Ward was a HUGE Super Middleweight and Golovkin is a small Middleweight. But Golovkin will DIFINITELY fight Ward in a few years and beat him easy at 175 and beat Kovalev too .... Robinson fought til he was past 40 and Golovkin can do the same. He had 350 amateur fights so he got a very late start as a pro. Then you have all the duckers like Martinez, Cotto, and Canelo who slowed down GGG's progress. The powers that be are trying to age GGG so they can get him beat .... If GGG fought 20 times in a year like Robinson did some years he'd have 200 fights by now. But he doesn't knock over 20 bums to pad his record and then lose to a good fighter like Robinson did .... A boxer's record in Title Defense is more important than his overall record because it's tougher to fight bums in Title Fights. Robinson's record in Middleweight Title defenses is 3-3 with 2 KO's and GGG's is 16-0 with 16 KO's .... If Robinson had such a masterful jab and footwork as Golovkin has, why did SRR LOSE to such unskilled swingers as LaMotta, Fullmer, Jones, Basilio, Turpin, and Pender??? .... Boxing Experts are full of crap. They never boxed and their blatherings are laughable .... I'm not as old as Bob Arum is. He's older than dirt .... I didn't say GGG was the GOAT but he's the top Middleweight .... Ali lost to the much shorter and smaller Joe Frazier (a wide-open walk-in left hooker) and to the very hittable and chinny Ken Norton when he was much younger than Triple-G is today. Ali wasn't as consistent, disciplined or as astute a trainer as GGG is and neither was Sugar Ray Robinson... That's why they started falling off a lot earlier... GGG HAS to be disciplined because he's not an American, he's a Kazakh and it's been much tougher for him fighting the Boxing Establishment ... Ali was my hero as a kid because I was dead against the stupid Viet Nam War. So I think Ali's a great human being but he wasn't the best Heavyweight ever. He was a little light on defense and punching power.![]()
No way that poster is over 18.
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OOPS that reposting was an error...
The Gulf of Tokin Incident happened in 1964, if you remember your history. It was used like "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq to get America involved in Viet Nam, a war that meant billions of dollars in defense industry contracts. I always dreamed of being a soldier so I enlisted in the Marines right after high school. I consider that a kid. Ali started speaking against our Viet Nam involvement about 1965. Because he also joined the Black Muslims before his rematch with Liston and changed his name, he was hated by many but became a hero of mine. My dad told me Viet Nam was a phony war manufactured to enrich the military industrial complex. He advised I not get involved in. He said Viet Nam would become a disaster and disgrace for the US. I became a conscientious objector and Ali became a big anti-war hero.
I never said I was ringside... Many of Robinson's fights were broadcast live and I saw many of them. My dad was a huge Boxing fan and we watched live Boxing on TV in the 50's from the time I was 4 or 5.. I remember going with my dad to the theater to watch a couple Robinson fights that broadcast live over closed circuit.SaadOffTheDeck wrote: you were a kid when Ali lost his licence for refusing to go to Vietnam, but you were also ringside for SRR's prime, care to explain that pal?
The Gulf of Tokin Incident happened in 1964, if you remember your history. It was used like "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq to get America involved in Viet Nam, a war that meant billions of dollars in defense industry contracts. I always dreamed of being a soldier so I enlisted in the Marines right after high school. I consider that a kid. Ali started speaking against our Viet Nam involvement about 1965. Because he also joined the Black Muslims before his rematch with Liston and changed his name, he was hated by many but became a hero of mine. My dad told me Viet Nam was a phony war manufactured to enrich the military industrial complex. He advised I not get involved in. He said Viet Nam would become a disaster and disgrace for the US. I became a conscientious objector and Ali became a big anti-war hero.
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Oh yeah? Before Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali he changed his name to what and why?Kalan wrote:OOPS that reposting was an error...I never said I was ringside... Many of Robinson's fights were broadcast live and I saw many of them. My dad was a huge Boxing fan and we watched live Boxing on TV in the 50's from the time I was 4 or 5.. I remember going with my dad to the theater to watch a couple Robinson fights that broadcast live over closed circuit.SaadOffTheDeck wrote: you were a kid when Ali lost his licence for refusing to go to Vietnam, but you were also ringside for SRR's prime, care to explain that pal?
The Gulf of Tokin Incident happened in 1964, if you remember your history. It was used like "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq to get America involved in Viet Nam, a war that meant billions of dollars in defense industry contracts. I always dreamed of being a soldier so I enlisted in the Marines right after high school. I consider that a kid. Ali started speaking against our Viet Nam involvement about 1965. Because he also joined the Black Muslims before his rematch with Liston and changed his name, he was hated by many but became a hero of mine. My dad told me Viet Nam was a phony war manufactured to enrich the military industrial complex. He advised I not get involved in. He said Viet Nam would become a disaster and disgrace for the US. I became a conscientious objector and Ali became a big anti-war hero.
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I guess he's having a hard time googling this information ^ 
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Counter-puncher
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Re: Your Unbiased Opinion on GGG's Career...
My god its like moron squared or something. Two morons together not merely making two morons, but moron to the power of moron.runner_phob wrote:No, he is not. A current good welterweight is about as strong and durable as middleweights from 50s, and they are often about the same size.jamesmcdonnell wrote:That's size, not athleticism. You're getting confused.ikorolev wrote:
Of course, it isn't. But if a good MW fights a good WW, who would win ?
Albeit you accidentally made a good point, comparing a modern middleweight and a 1950s one is pointless due to 36hr weighin, you should compare a modern middleweight with a 50s/60s/70s lightheavy
So, how does the superb modern athlete Jermaine Taylor do against john conteh?
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runner_phob
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People are comparing SRR (and not Conteh) with Golovkin. My point is that Golovkin would be so much stronger that it would be like MW fighting a WW.
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In which case, I apologise for my rudeness.runner_phob wrote:People are comparing SRR (and not Conteh) with Golovkin. My point is that Golovkin would be so much stronger that it would be like MW fighting a WW.
I thought you were that other guy, kalan, whos a real idiot.
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SaadOffTheDeck
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He's an idiot too. God knows Robinson never fought any Middleweights when he was a Welterweight.Counter-puncher wrote:In which case, I apologise for my rudeness.runner_phob wrote:People are comparing SRR (and not Conteh) with Golovkin. My point is that Golovkin would be so much stronger that it would be like MW fighting a WW.
I thought you were that other guy, kalan, whos a real idiot.
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Kalan wrote:OOPS that reposting was an error...I never said I was ringside... Many of Robinson's fights were broadcast live and I saw many of them. My dad was a huge Boxing fan and we watched live Boxing on TV in the 50's from the time I was 4 or 5.. I remember going with my dad to the theater to watch a couple Robinson fights that broadcast live over closed circuit.SaadOffTheDeck wrote: you were a kid when Ali lost his licence for refusing to go to Vietnam, but you were also ringside for SRR's prime, care to explain that pal?
The Gulf of Tokin Incident happened in 1964, if you remember your history. It was used like "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq to get America involved in Viet Nam, a war that meant billions of dollars in defense industry contracts. I always dreamed of being a soldier so I enlisted in the Marines right after high school. I consider that a kid. Ali started speaking against our Viet Nam involvement about 1965. Because he also joined the Black Muslims before his rematch with Liston and changed his name, he was hated by many but became a hero of mine. My dad told me Viet Nam was a phony war manufactured to enrich the military industrial complex. He advised I not get involved in. He said Viet Nam would become a disaster and disgrace for the US. I became a conscientious objector and Ali became a big anti-war hero.
Which year did they draft you?
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runner_phob
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You are an idiot if you are insisting that Robinson would beat Golovkin.SaadOffTheDeck wrote:He's an idiot too. God knows Robinson never fought any Middleweights when he was a Welterweight.Counter-puncher wrote:In which case, I apologise for my rudeness.runner_phob wrote:People are comparing SRR (and not Conteh) with Golovkin. My point is that Golovkin would be so much stronger that it would be like MW fighting a WW.
I thought you were that other guy, kalan, whos a real idiot.
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GGG is the best in the biz. Ain't no one close except kovalev
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kidbazooka1
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jewboypgh wrote:GGG is the best in the biz. Ain't no one close except kovalev
Only European fans would agree with you ofcourse.
Most real fans wont rate a guy who literally has faced nothing but bums as "the best in the biz".
There are several guys better and more accomplished than those two guys u listed.
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Are you being sarcastic?runner_phob wrote:You are an idiot if you are insisting that Robinson would beat Golovkin.SaadOffTheDeck wrote:He's an idiot too. God knows Robinson never fought any Middleweights when he was a Welterweight.Counter-puncher wrote:
In which case, I apologise for my rudeness.
I thought you were that other guy, kalan, whos a real idiot.
If not then my god you're one stupid son of a bitch.
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runner_phob
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Re: Your Unbiased Opinion on GGG's Career...
Who asked you ??? Saying that Robinson would beat Golovkin is almost as ridiculous as saying that Greb would.kidbazooka1 wrote:Are you being sarcastic?runner_phob wrote:You are an idiot if you are insisting that Robinson would beat Golovkin.SaadOffTheDeck wrote:
He's an idiot too. God knows Robinson never fought any Middleweights when he was a Welterweight.
If not then my god you're one stupid son of a bitch.