Good fight. I'd give a narrow edge to Golovkin based on his inside fighting skills and ability to retain his pace. Also, Golovkin's results (mainly the near-unanimous W over Canelo while getting up in age) seems pretty good in hindsight, despite giving him the overrated-tag
It's absurd how people somehow try to twist that fight into being a "legacy killer" for G, when outfighting an ATG/HoFer roughly 8-4 would normally do the exact opposite for a fighter's legacy.
I think GGG breaks him down with body work and stops him in about eight. It'd be a damn good fight though, with Pavlik landing things Golovkin didn't like. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if he started fighting a little differently like he did vs Canelo and Lemieux.
It's hard to go with Golov with any certainty when his prime was spent beating up cans. Could I see him beating prime Pavlik? Certainly. But nothing suggests it would be a case of Golov breaking him down and stopping him in 7-8. Even journeymen like Rosado and Stevens went 8 with Golovkin. Yeah, I would make Golovkin the favorite here, but not by much. I think the Pavlik of Miranda, and Taylor 1 is an extremely live underdog here.
Might ne weird.to say, since it was a dominating performance, but the lemieux fight is when i started to doubt GGG. Seemed really uncomfortable when Lemieux landed a few punches
