Sanchez has respect for what Hopkins accomplished but said he was not as dominant at middleweight as Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) has been, noting that Hopkins?biggest wins in the division came against smaller fighters who moved up in weight -- Felix Trinidad and Oscar De La Hoya.
?b>And Gennady is knocking everybody out,?Sanchez said. �We can all be critical of the opposition, but you can go back to Joe Louis, who had the �bum of the month club,?or Larry Holmes or Mike Tyson. They didn�t have the best opposition either. But I don�t care who you�re fighting, if you win 15 middleweight title defenses, all by knockout, that�s a special place in history already. If he can get to 20 defenses, especially if he can get there all by knockout, that would be very special.
?b>And Gennady is knocking everybody out,?Sanchez said. �We can all be critical of the opposition, but you can go back to Joe Louis, who had the �bum of the month club,?or Larry Holmes or Mike Tyson. They didn�t have the best opposition either. But I don�t care who you�re fighting, if you win 15 middleweight title defenses, all by knockout, that�s a special place in history already. If he can get to 20 defenses, especially if he can get there all by knockout, that would be very special.
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