Now let's compare feats.
In all these years of Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya since the 80's, both had progressions, however..
Goku became a space tier fighter, managing to fight beings stronger than the gods of his Earth, then evolved into a Super Saiyan, defeating a galactic tyrant for good. Years later, he trained with the lower gods of his universe, archiving the peak of super saiyan evolution and defeating the most feared legend that was capable of end the entire universe. Later he met, Beerus, the supreme god of his universe, archive absolute divinity forms and becomes a multiversal fighter entering in the realm of deities that rules the reality.
Meanwhile, Seiya remained a bronze fighter for many years, jobbing to every retarded he faced and only winning by divine intervention, archived similar power to the strongest saints but only momentarily. Later archived god tier armor with the blood of Athena, yet still unable to face actual gods of the Olympus. Got fucking crippled by Hades, then Apolo/Helios came, stole his slutty goddess Athena, whom Seiya simped so hard for all life, them rewrote all the timeline to make Seiya and Athena regular humans. With some time travel mess that happened a bit before that.
Dragon Ball archived global success and became one of Japan's highest grossing IPs while Saint Seiya felt so hard into relevancy almost everyone, even in Latam, just remember it's first Sanctuary Arc. Truth so hard that in every crossover thing, they only add Seiya and co. from that arc.
>but Seiya became a golden saint
From the GT equivalent of Dragon Ball.
Them, after all these years, Saint Sissies thinks their show and character can compete with Dragon Ball or even be important enough to be feature in Death Battle. I just CHORTLE every time I see them barking at their superiors.
Yes, I got updated about what is going on in Saint Seiya by asking to some of it's fans about the status of the franchise. What a shame.