Finally, someone reviews the original post in my thread and makes a concerted effort to comment on GGG's opposition.Kalan wrote:1. Dominic Wade was his UNDEFEATED MANDATORY CHALLENGER and he crushed him in 2 rounds.Enlightened-One wrote: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?
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
Well done and thanks for your detailed response.
You've raised some interesting points, which I'll try to comment on later, but your reply (superficially-speaking) appears quite impressive!
