Gennady Golovkin's Resume Since 2011

[gilgamesh]

I don't think even the most die hard GGG fan in the world has made a ridiculous claim like he could knock out anyone from Heavyweight to Welterweight or he could dominate until he's 60. He's a tremendous fighter. Hopefully the names on his resume match the level of talent I and several other fight fans know he's capable of.

He's the best Middleweight in the world right now, and it's not even close.

The 2nd best Middleweight in the World (which I'd assume most would say is Danny Jacobs) might as well be ranked 30th for how he'd look in the ring against Golovkin.

The Gap between GGG's talent and the rest of the Middleweights is enormous.

[Counter-puncher]

[fanman]

Well of course golovkins resume is very bare, but at least he has now wrapped up the middleweight division, sent canelo running off with his tail between his legs & got his only serious contenders pricing themselves out for now.
Brook will be a solid notch on his belt also.

Cant really blame golovkin for it though, the future could still be bright with potential matchups v eubank, saunders, & canelo ... one can only fight whats in front of you.

[Butterbean]

I do not agree that these fighters he's beaten are all cupcakes and GGG deserves more credit than he's getting for walking through the level of talent he has....

All I’ve done is detail the Ring Magazine rankings and submitted a sentence summarising the BoxRec resume info. I’ve pretty much listed facts in parrot-like fashion.

I have not expressed a personal opinion on the matter and I’m not trying to suggest that Golovkin isn’t the best middleweight fighter on the planet.

Facts don’t care about personal opinions and it seems fairly obvious that facts don’t always compel people to change their minds. Interpret my post as you deem fit.

no..., you've twisted facts to your own liking, and then you follow upwith a great number of extremely negative oriented, subjective selectivity, comments on golovkins opponents.
apparently you've spendt a lot of time on this.
you shouldn't have.
it sucks.
and you probaply dont understand why.
not passed.
sorry.

[Enlightened-One]

I do not agree that these fighters he's beaten are all cupcakes and GGG deserves more credit than he's getting for walking through the level of talent he has....

All I’ve done is detail the Ring Magazine rankings and submitted a sentence summarising the BoxRec resume info. I’ve pretty much listed facts in parrot-like fashion.

I have not expressed a personal opinion on the matter and I’m not trying to suggest that Golovkin isn’t the best middleweight fighter on the planet.

Facts don’t care about personal opinions and it seems fairly obvious that facts don’t always compel people to change their minds. Interpret my post as you deem fit.

no..., you've twisted facts to your own liking, and then you follow upwith a great number of extremely negative oriented, subjective selectivity, comments on golovkins opponents.
apparently you've spendt a lot of time on this.
you shouldn't have.
it sucks.
and you probaply dont understand why.
not passed.
sorry.

You guys are doing it again... protecting Golovkin's reputation at all costs, despite the fact that I'm not really criticising the man.

My first post in this thread was factually and undeniably accurate. My subsequent posts in this thread were merely a light-hearted dig at some of the preposterous excuses formulated by his blindly-loyal fans.

I really do like GGG, but he's only human... and his hard-core fans are a tad stupid... and those are the people I'm trying to offend.

[Counter-puncher]

The idea of fugmo being 'light-hearted'

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Shite.

There's my thoughts for you.

fornicate you Rover.

[caldo2025]

I do not agree that these fighters he's beaten are all cupcakes and GGG deserves more credit than he's getting for walking through the level of talent he has....

All I’ve done is detail the Ring Magazine rankings and submitted a sentence summarising the BoxRec resume info. I’ve pretty much listed facts in parrot-like fashion.

I have not expressed a personal opinion on the matter and I’m not trying to suggest that Golovkin isn’t the best middleweight fighter on the planet.

Facts don’t care about personal opinions and it seems fairly obvious that facts don’t always compel people to change their minds. Interpret my post as you deem fit.

My response was directed more to the common misconceptions that people are always spouting off about on this site. I realize that you're OP was fact based without opinion. Didn't mean for it to be directed to you like that.

[crusader]

fergusg/MCFC-Fan/Absolute_loser/Toosweat69/X-skadefryd-X really loves posting about GGG, in fact I think one of his first posts as fergusg was something like this.

Poor guy was driven out of the forum the first time though and needed to come back with another name after asking a mod to delete his account ....guess he couldn't take the heat

[Lennox]

As we’re less than ten days away from Gennady Golovkin’s next world title defence, I thought I’d perform a statistical review of his career for the last five years, using a combination of the Ring Magazine's divisional ratings, coupled with BoxRec’s resume information.


I used the “WayBackMachine” internet archive website to gather the Ring Magazine divisional ranking of each opponent at the time of their contest against Golovkin. Also, to simplify things, I rated their champ as the number one ranked fighter in the 160lb division and everybody else accordingly.

Note: This post is not meant to undermine Golovkin’s feats, but to help you evaluate his achievements and his dominant performances in their true context, based on the calibre of the opposition he has been facing. So please don’t get too upset about the things I’ve written, because everything I’ve stated is factually-correct, based on information supplied by reliable third-party sources.

My comments are in the context of the facts of each world title contender at the time they entered the ring against Golovkin:

Date: 23/04/16 Opponent: Dominic Wade Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 10 WITH THE PREMIER BOXING ORGANISATION
A lightly-regarded opponent whose only accomplishment was scoring a controversial decision victory over a 41 year old shot version of Sam Soliman

Date: 17/10/15 Opponent: David Lemieux Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 5 RANKED 5 WITH THE PBO
Was the IBF champion (after competing for the vacant belt and having never defended his crown), a former light middleweight, at the time of the GGG fight, had suffered two losses on his record, with one of them being a stoppage defeat to Marco Antonio Rubio (who himself was KO'd inside two rounds by Golovkin)

Date: 16/05/15 Opponent: Willie Monroe Jr Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 24 WITH THE PBO
A former light middleweight that was lightly-regarded and was untested, having never previously competed against a top-ten world-rated middleweight prior to the Golovkin bout

Date: 21/02/15 Opponent: Martin Murray Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 7 RANKED 9 WITH THE PBO
A two-time failed world title challenger, with only one loss on his resume prior to facing Golovkin

Date: 18/10/14 Opponent: Marco Antonio Rubio Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 8 RANKED 8 WITH THE PBO
A former welterweight and two-time failed world title challenger, with six losses on his resume, that had previously been dominated or stopped by Chavez Jr. and Pavlik

Date: 26/07/14 Opponent: Daniel Geale Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 3 RANKED 3 WITH THE PBO
A former world middleweight champion that had already tasted defeat against Golovkin in the amateurs and lost his world title in his penultimate bout prior to facing GGG

Date: 01/02/14 Opponent: Osumanu Adama Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 7 WITH THE PBO
One-time failed world title challenger, a former light middleweight and a lightly-regarded opponent

Date: 02/11/13 Opponent: Curtis Stevens Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 11 RANKED 14 WITH THE PBO
An anonimous fighter that had already lost three times prior to facing Golovkin, one of them to the lightly regarded Jessie Brinkley

Date: 29/06/13 Opponent: Matthew Macklin Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 7 RANKED 8 WITH THE PBO
A former welterweight, one time failed world title challenger and entered the ring against GGG having lost two of his previous three bouts

Date: 30/03/13 Opponent: Nobuhiro Ishida Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 18 WITH THE PBO
A former light middleweight that had failed to win ten of his bouts, entered the ring against Golovkin having tasted defeat in his previous two outings

Date: 19/01/13 Opponent: Gabriel Rosado Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 9 WITH THE PBO
A former light middleweight, having lost five fights, that had never previously engaged in either a 160lb bout nor a world title fight

Date: 01/09/12 Opponent: Grzegorz Proksa Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 10 RANKED 8 WITH THE PBO
Was defeated in one of his previous three bouts immediately prior to facing Golovkin and was also a former light middleweight

Date: 12/05/12 Opponent: Makoto Fuchigami Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 20 WITH THE PBO
An anonimous fighter that had already lost six times

Date: 09/12/11 Opponent: Lajuan Simon Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 33 WITH THE IBO
A failed world title challenger that had lost three of his previous five bouts at the time he fought Golovkin… and had even lost his previous bout immediately prior to facing GGG

Date: 17/06/11 Opponent: Kassim Ouma Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked RANKED 65 WITH THE IBO
A former welterweight contender and 154lb world champion that had tasted defeat in five of his previous seven bouts at the time he entered the ring against Golovkin

Golovkin’s next opponent is 12-year veteran, whose competes as a welterweight and has never scored a clear-cut decisive victory over a top-ten world class 147lb-er.

Thoughts?

[SFW]

I think Golovkin is the real deal, he's a tad slow for anyone to pick him over some of the ATG middleweights but he has been completely dominant thus far against some world class fighters. Deep down you all know Gennady would pummel BJS, Canelo, Eubank Jr, none of them are strong enough. The guy that beat Abraham looks like a good challenge. In the end GGG will leave no doubt, just needs to get these guys in the ring. Jacob's is another, he may be dangerous for 2 rounds after that it's a systematic breakdown. The business aspect of boxing has hurt GGG and Ward, for different reasons.

[MachoTime]

All I’ve done is detail the Ring Magazine rankings and submitted a sentence summarising the BoxRec resume info. I’ve pretty much listed facts in parrot-like fashion.

I have not expressed a personal opinion on the matter and I’m not trying to suggest that Golovkin isn’t the best middleweight fighter on the planet.

Facts don’t care about personal opinions and it seems fairly obvious that facts don’t always compel people to change their minds. Interpret my post as you deem fit.

no..., you've twisted facts to your own liking, and then you follow upwith a great number of extremely negative oriented, subjective selectivity, comments on golovkins opponents.
apparently you've spendt a lot of time on this.
you shouldn't have.
it sucks.
and you probaply dont understand why.
not passed.
sorry.

You guys are doing it again... protecting Golovkin's reputation at all costs, despite the fact that I'm not really criticising the man.

My first post in this thread was factually and undeniably accurate. My subsequent posts in this thread were merely a light-hearted dig at some of the preposterous excuses formulated by his blindly-loyal fans.

I really do like GGG, but he's only human... and his hard-core fans are a tad stupid... and those are the people I'm trying to offend.

[jamesmcdonnell]

let's be fair GGG is very good, but has he done anything to be anointed as the second coming of Hagler/Monzon/SRR....no he hasn't.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

let's be fair GGG is very good, but has he done anything to be anointed as the second coming of Hagler/Monzon/SRR....no he hasn't.

His resume is shallow historically, he sure looks the part. These days that's all most have.

[Butterbean]

All I’ve done is detail the Ring Magazine rankings and submitted a sentence summarising the BoxRec resume info. I’ve pretty much listed facts in parrot-like fashion.

I have not expressed a personal opinion on the matter and I’m not trying to suggest that Golovkin isn’t the best middleweight fighter on the planet.

Facts don’t care about personal opinions and it seems fairly obvious that facts don’t always compel people to change their minds. Interpret my post as you deem fit.

no..., you've twisted facts to your own liking, and then you follow upwith a great number of extremely negative oriented, subjective selectivity, comments on golovkins opponents.
apparently you've spendt a lot of time on this.
you shouldn't have.
it sucks.
and you probaply dont understand why.
not passed.
sorry.

You guys are doing it again... protecting Golovkin's reputation at all costs, despite the fact that I'm not really criticising the man.

My first post in this thread was factually and undeniably accurate. My subsequent posts in this thread were merely a light-hearted dig at some of the preposterous excuses formulated by his blindly-loyal fans.

I really do like GGG, but he's only human... and his hard-core fans are a tad stupid... and those are the people I'm trying to offend.

[Pureist]

All I’ve done is detail the Ring Magazine rankings and submitted a sentence summarising the BoxRec resume info. I’ve pretty much listed facts in parrot-like fashion.

I have not expressed a personal opinion on the matter and I’m not trying to suggest that Golovkin isn’t the best middleweight fighter on the planet.

Facts don’t care about personal opinions and it seems fairly obvious that facts don’t always compel people to change their minds. Interpret my post as you deem fit.

no..., you've twisted facts to your own liking, and then you follow upwith a great number of extremely negative oriented, subjective selectivity, comments on golovkins opponents.
apparently you've spendt a lot of time on this.
you shouldn't have.
it sucks.
and you probaply dont understand why.
not passed.
sorry.

You guys are doing it again... protecting Golovkin's reputation at all costs, despite the fact that I'm not really criticising the man.

My first post in this thread was factually and undeniably accurate. My subsequent posts in this thread were merely a light-hearted dig at some of the preposterous excuses formulated by his blindly-loyal fans.

I really do like GGG, but he's only human... and his hard-core fans are a tad stupid... and those are the people I'm trying to offend.

So by your own words, your not here to discuss anything, your here to troll Fergus, so why would anyone be interested by your opinion

[Enlightened-One]

So by your own words, your not here to discuss anything, your here to troll... so why would anyone be interested by your opinion

I did not make a premeditated decision to tease or troll anyone when I created this thread.

My intention was to discuss Golovkin’s career in the context of the calibre of opposition he has faced. I made this abundantly clear in my opening post.

In fact, I put a lot of effort into researching the Ring Magazine ratings and the BoxRec resumes of all the opponents that Golovkin has faced over the last five years.

I genuinely believe that the resulting information was presented in an objective manner, without bias and without any intent to cause offence.

And guess what ended up happening? The extreme Golovkin die-hard set of blindly loyal fans got upset and embarrassed about the things I’d written, even though they were blatantly true.

So instead of using their knowledge and intellect to challenge the issues detailed in my opening post, they tried to insult me, made false claims, posted irrelevant videos that weren’t related to the topic of this thread and all sorts of derogatory things.

I found their over-the-top reaction rather comical, so I retaliated by poking the bear and mocked these intellectually-challenged GGG die-hards, simply because I realised it was futile to hold a mature and sensible conversation with those sort of people.

If you review my posting history, especially those posted in chronological order in this thread, you’ll surely realise this, but you didn’t… so you’ve unfairly accused me of being a troll, simply because you’re far too lazy to validate the accuracy of your insults before using them.

[Boxing Prospect]

Can do this sort of thing with any one
Mayweathers last few wins-
Beat a guy who was 3-3 in his previous 6
Beat a former Flyweight who had been stopped 3 times
Beat a former 140lbder who had lost 3 times previous, Mayweather chose not to face any of the men who beat this guy...and this guys most famous win (or one of) was over a former super featherweight!
A 23 year old weight drained fighter
A former super featherweight who went 2-3 (could have been 1-4) afterwards

[Enlightened-One]

I think Golovkin is the real deal, he's a tad slow for anyone to pick him over some of the ATG middleweights but he has been completely dominant thus far against some world class fighters.

I mostly agree with the sentiments of this post, but the calibre of opposition (in general) has not been truly-world class (based on their typical rankings).

My only gripe, I guess, is that Gennady Golovkin has been world-rated middleweight since 2008, which means he’s had more than eight years’ worth of opportunity to have competed against the likes of:

• Arthur Abraham
• Felix Sturm
• Kelly Pavlik
• Paul Williams
• Jermain Taylor
• Sergio Martinez
• Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
• Andy Lee
• Darren Barker
• Dmitry Pirog
• Peter Quillin
• Anthony Mundine
• Sam Soliman
• Daniel Jacobs

However, it seems that Universum, K2 and HBO have refused to invest in their charge, because if they offered big enough paydays, many of these guys probably would have faced GGG.

Deep down you all know Gennady would pummel BJS, Canelo, Eubank Jr, none of them are strong enough. The guy that beat Abraham looks like a good challenge. In the end GGG will leave no doubt, just needs to get these guys in the ring. Jacob's is another, he may be dangerous for 2 rounds after that it's a systematic breakdown.

I can’t dispute this, because I agree.

My fear is that Golovkin will remain in his 160lb comfort zone facing second-tier opposition for the remainder of his career, due to HBO’s diminished budget and K2’s reluctance to offer big paydays, so he’ll likely leave a legacy of those like Sven Ottke, Markus Beyer & Virgil Hill… instead of Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard & Bernard Hopkins.

The business aspect of boxing has hurt GGG and Ward, for different reasons.

And Golovkin is partially to blame for his own situation, because he chose to sign contract extensions with the very people that may be holding him back.

I genuinely believe that GGG would have had a better resume and had a better bank balance if he had been promoted by the likes of Top Rank, GBP, Roc Nation, Matchroom or any of the promoters affiliated to Al Haymon, instead of Universum & K2.

[Enlightened-One]

Can do this sort of thing with any one
Mayweathers last few wins-
Beat a guy who was 3-3 in his previous 6
Beat a former Flyweight who had been stopped 3 times
Beat a former 140lbder who had lost 3 times previous, Mayweather chose not to face any of the men who beat this guy...and this guys most famous win (or one of) was over a former super featherweight!
A 23 year old weight drained fighter
A former super featherweight who went 2-3 (could have been 1-4) afterwards

OK, if it’s so easy… why don’t you review my original post in this thread and use precisely the same approach to evaluate Mayweather’s career, but whilst you’re at it, please also supply the pound-for-pound ranking of Floyd’s opponents – not just the divisional ranking.

With the resulting information, let’s compare Mayweather’s career against Golovkin’s.

Let’s see if you can talk the talk and walk the walk?

[Enlightened-One]

RANKED... WITH THE PBO/IBO

I appreciate the effort you’ve made by listing the PBO & IBO rankings, but I don’t know very much about those niche and fairly anonymous organisations… and I truly apologise for this.

In my mind, the general consensus of opinion is that the ESPN & Ring Magazine divisional rankings are those that usually represent the common perception of the majority of boxing experts and fight fans alike.

For sure, some of us might argue with a few of the positions within these ratings, but the general lists of names included in their top-ten rankings are nearly always accepted without question.

And besides, I’m not entirely sure if your response actually undermines the Ring Magazine divisional rankings I’ve quoted, because your numbers aren’t really flattering Golovkin’s opponents.

I appreciate all the effort you’ve made in your post though.

[SFW]

I think Ward is guilty of the same thing, but at least Golovkin kept fighting Andre lost all the momentum he had built up while Golovkin has built his up. Far too slowly some would say, I'd agree. But that has no bearing, puts no limits on what he could potentially do. Same with Brook. I am harsh as fornicate on Kell, but his almost total lack of good competition isn't a death sentence. He clearly belongs with the best in the world, who knows where either of these guy's ceilings is.

I understand the viewpoint of needing to see GGG beat the best out there before being completely sold on him, but I think it's a safe bet he will answer the biggest challenges when he gets them. Maybe I have more faith in him than most people, but nothing I've seen yet indicates this guy is lacking, other than willing opposition.

[boxing_rocks]

I think Ward is guilty of the same thing, but at least Golovkin kept fighting Andre lost all the momentum he had built up while Golovkin has built his up. Far too slowly some would say, I'd agree. But that has no bearing, puts no limits on what he could potentially do. Same with Brook. I am harsh as eff on Kell, but his almost total lack of good competition isn't a death sentence. He clearly belongs with the best in the world, who knows where either of these guy's ceilings is.

I understand the viewpoint of needing to see GGG beat the best out there before being completely sold on him, but I think it's a safe bet he will answer the biggest challenges when he gets them. Maybe I have more faith in him than most people, but nothing I've seen yet indicates this guy is lacking, other than willing opposition.

Boxing has changed since Hagler or even MW Hopkins. Opponents wanted to fight Hagler and Hopkins while now they are carefully avoiding likes of Golovkin.

[SFW]

It's definitely changed your right. The business aspect has increasingly fucked up what we get to see in the ring.

[Kalan]

As we’re less than ten days away from Gennady Golovkin’s next world title defence, I thought I’d perform a statistical review of his career for the last five years, using a combination of the Ring Magazine's divisional ratings, coupled with BoxRec’s resume information.

I used the “WayBackMachine” internet archive website to gather the Ring Magazine divisional ranking of each opponent at the time of their contest against Golovkin. Also, to simplify things, I rated their champ as the number one ranked fighter in the 160lb division and everybody else accordingly.

Note: This post is not meant to undermine Golovkin’s feats, but to help you evaluate his achievements and his dominant performances in their true context, based on the calibre of the opposition he has been facing. So please don’t get too upset about the things I’ve written, because everything I’ve stated is factually-correct, based on information supplied by reliable third-party sources.

My comments are in the context of the facts of each world title contender at the time they entered the ring against Golovkin:

Date: 23/04/16 Opponent: Dominic Wade Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
A lightly-regarded opponent whose only accomplishment was scoring a controversial decision victory over a 41 year old shot version of Sam Soliman

Date: 17/10/15 Opponent: David Lemieux Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 5
Was the IBF champion (after competing for the vacant belt and having never defended his crown), a former light middleweight, at the time of the GGG fight, had suffered two losses on his record, with one of them being a stoppage defeat to Marco Antonio Rubio (who himself was KO'd inside two rounds by Golovkin)

Date: 16/05/15 Opponent: Willie Monroe Jr Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
A former light middleweight that was lightly-regarded and was untested, having never previously competed against a top-ten world-rated middleweight prior to the Golovkin bout

Date: 21/02/15 Opponent: Martin Murray Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 7
A two-time failed world title challenger, with only one loss on his resume prior to facing Golovkin

Date: 18/10/14 Opponent: Marco Antonio Rubio Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 8
A former welterweight and two-time failed world title challenger, with six losses on his resume, that had previously been dominated or stopped by Chavez Jr. and Pavlik

Date: 26/07/14 Opponent: Daniel Geale Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 3
A former world middleweight champion that had already tasted defeat against Golovkin in the amateurs and lost his world title in his penultimate bout prior to facing GGG

Date: 01/02/14 Opponent: Osumanu Adama Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
One-time failed world title challenger, a former light middleweight and a lightly-regarded opponent

Date: 02/11/13 Opponent: Curtis Stevens Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 11
An anonimous fighter that had already lost three times prior to facing Golovkin, one of them to the lightly regarded Jessie Brinkley

Date: 29/06/13 Opponent: Matthew Macklin Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 7
A former welterweight, one time failed world title challenger and entered the ring against GGG having lost two of his previous three bouts

Date: 30/03/13 Opponent: Nobuhiro Ishida Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
A former light middleweight that had failed to win ten of his bouts, entered the ring against Golovkin having tasted defeat in his previous two outings

Date: 19/01/13 Opponent: Gabriel Rosado Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
A former light middleweight, having lost five fights, that had never previously engaged in either a 160lb bout nor a world title fight

Date: 01/09/12 Opponent: Grzegorz Proksa Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: 10
Was defeated in one of his previous three bouts immediately prior to facing Golovkin and was also a former light middleweight

Date: 12/05/12 Opponent: Makoto Fuchigami Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
An anonimous fighter that had already lost six times

Date: 09/12/11 Opponent: Lajuan Simon Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
A failed world title challenger that had lost three of his previous five bouts at the time he fought Golovkin… and had even lost his previous bout immediately prior to facing GGG

Date: 17/06/11 Opponent: Kassim Ouma Divisional Ring Magazine Rating: Unranked
A former welterweight contender and 154lb world champion that had tasted defeat in five of his previous seven bouts at the time he entered the ring against Golovkin

Golovkin’s next opponent is 12-year veteran, whose competes as a welterweight and has never scored a clear-cut decisive victory over a top-ten world class 147lb-er.

Thoughts?

1. Dominic Wade was his UNDEFEATED MANDATORY CHALLENGER and he crushed him in 2 rounds.

2. David Lemieux was 34-2 and undefeated for the previous 4 years. GGG dominated and stopped him in in a World Middleweight Title Unification Fight.

3. Willie Monroe was a MANDATROY CHALLENGER. A slick boxing southpaw who'd never been dropped or stopped.. GGG dropped him 3 X and stopped him

4. Marco Rubio went the distance with Chavez and was a rugged campaigner who came in way over the weight limit... GGG stopped him in 4 minutes.

5. Martin Murray decked Sergio Martinez twice while suffering his only previous loss on a bogus decision in Argentina. He was 29-1-1, and suffered his the only knockdowns and only stoppage of his career at the hands of Gennady Golokin,

6. Daniel Geale was a very pathetic, scared ass challenger... but a former World Champion who was a replacement for Chavez, who reneged on a GGG fight.

7. Adama was a terrible challenger like Geale... but you have to fight somebody when the top Middleweights are ducking you.

8. Stevens was a very tough and dangerous puncher, but not a good boxer... However 2 big bombers made for an interesting fight...

9. Macklin went 11 rounds with Sergio Martinez and decked him... Getting rid of Macklin quickly and easily supplied some contrast...

10, Nobuhiro Ishida had never been stopped and went the distance with Dmitry Pirog.. Crushing him in 3 rounds and putting him into IC provided contrast. Since the undefeated Pirog, who knocked Daniel Jacobs out, pulled out of a signed and sealed fight with GGG.

11. Gabe Rosado was another pathetic challenger... You fight some of these if the best Middleweights continue to duck you.

12. Grzegorz Proksa was 28-1 and never stopped... He was a great challenger on paper, but easily crushed by GGG.

13. Makoto Fuchigami is one of those challengers you fight to stay busy when Sergio Martinez refuses to fight you.

14.Lajuan Simon is another guy fight because he's willing -- and you can't get better fighters into the ring.

15.Kassim Ouma had not been stopped for over 11 years... going the distance with Jermain Taylor and Vanes Martirosyan, and beating Marco Rubio. Golovkin beat him up and stopped him after spending 21 hours in flights and waiting in airports for delayed flights... He was pretty weary for the fight.

16. Golovkin's next opponent, Kell Brook, 36-0, is the World's most avoided and feared Champion at 147. He's flew over 6,000 miles to beat Shawn Porter in America and beat several mandatory challengers.. and he's now a full fledged natural Middleweight who weighed a solid 176 for his 30-day weigh-in