Comments Thread For: News: HBO Middleweight Tourney; Darchinyan, More

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Daniel Geale may get the chance to justify promoter Gary Shaw's assertion he is the world's best middleweight boxer, by taking part in a proposed box-off between the division's finest fighters.

Australia's WBA Super and IBF champion Geale, Kazakhstan's undefeated regular WBA champion Gennady Golovkin, Russia's unbeaten former WBO champion Dmitry Pirog and Britain's Matthew Macklin are among the fighters who could feature in the box-off.

American Shaw, who helps out the Geale camp, said cable television network HBO was trying to invest in the middleweight division.

HBO had already featured Golovkin and Sergio Martinez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, the latter pair meeting in a WBC middleweight world title bout last month. [Click Here To Read More]

Schwejk

Great news. I see GGG a huge favorite here, following by Pirog.

nycsmooth

sounds ike an all Europe tourney & if HBO carries it you're looking at 5/6 hour time difference...Darchinyan is from Armenia ( same place as kentikian, where is she now?), not Australia, wrong continent...

turnedup

Glad to see these guys getting the exposure they need..but they are doing a great disservice to gaele by saying he'll beat sergio..he's good but I don't know if he's that good..now can we get the same for ww and hw? Also what's up with the lack of mandatories these days..boxing needs to start forcing mandatory defenses..let a champ get 2 paydays of his choosing but that third fight should be against someone in their division ranked within the top 4...top 5 at the worst..hell make it top 3 and i'm in for every one of those fights..

vacon04

Yeah, I don't think Geale beats Martínez. He's a good fighter, I enjoy his fights, but he's not going to beat Sergio.

Carlos Alberto

I would love to see a middleweight tournament. Geale vs GGG and Pirog vs Macklin would be awesome!!!

P.S. Michael Katsidis needs to phucken retire before he dies in the ring (a bit of an exaggeration but he does need to call it a career)!!! He should have retired after the Guerrero fight. The guy takes massive beatings!!!

Young Money

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Originally Posted by nycsmooth

sounds ike an all Europe tourney & if HBO carries it you're looking at 5/6 hour time difference...Darchinyan is from Armenia ( same place as kentikian, where is she now?), not Australia, wrong continent...

Darchinyan is Armenian but is based out of Australia.

ShoulderRoll

A middleweight tournament is a good idea. The winner of N'Jikam vs. Quillin should be thrown into the mix too.

Light_Speed

A middleweight tourney sounds good but they need to make an old school 8-man tournament. Now that would be awesome.

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Originally Posted by nycsmooth

sounds ike an all Europe tourney

Australia is not in europe, you've been taking geography lessons from Bernard Hopkins haven't you?

Clegg

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Originally Posted by nycsmooth

sounds ike an all Europe tourney & if HBO carries it you're looking at 5/6 hour time difference...Darchinyan is from Armenia ( same place as kentikian, where is she now?), not Australia, wrong continent...

All 4 of them have shown that they're willing to travel, I'd expect all of the fights to be in the US.

I think this is a good idea, although I'd rather just see GG vs Geale for a shot at Martinez.

Schwejk Amateur Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0 Points: 995.80 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 995.80 Donate	Great news. I see GGG a huge favorite here, following by Pirog.

nycsmooth Undisputed Champion Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 3,239 Rep Power: 10 Points: 31,580.96 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 31,580.96 Donate	sounds ike an all Europe tourney & if HBO carries it you're looking at 5/6 hour time difference...Darchinyan is from Armenia ( same place as kentikian, where is she now?), not Australia, wrong continent...

vacon04 Undisputed Champion Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 3,372 Rep Power: 9 Points: 1,001,007,272.33 Bank: 66,457,702,164.30 Total Points: 67,458,709,436.63 Donate	Yeah, I don't think Geale beats Martínez. He's a good fighter, I enjoy his fights, but he's not going to beat Sergio.

Carlos Alberto Interim Champion Join Date: Sep 2006 Age: 32 Posts: 931 Rep Power: 8 Points: 33,130.96 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 33,130.96 Donate	I would love to see a middleweight tournament. Geale vs GGG and Pirog vs Macklin would be awesome!!! P.S. Michael Katsidis needs to phucken retire before he dies in the ring (a bit of an exaggeration but he does need to call it a career)!!! He should have retired after the Guerrero fight. The guy takes massive beatings!!!

ShoulderRoll Undisputed Champion Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,277 Rep Power: 26 Points: 11,170.85 Bank: 263,618,093,933.71 Total Points: 263,618,105,104.56 Donate	A middleweight tournament is a good idea. The winner of N'Jikam vs. Quillin should be thrown into the mix too.