It doesn't matter who GGG had agreed to fight. Unless it was Andre Ward, at whatever weight Andre wants, on whatever time frame Andre wants, these same posters are going to be critical of whoever Golovkin agrees to fight.
There are obvious differences in the choices made by Canelo and GGG. Canelo, in supposed preparation for Golovkin, chose, he selected, Amir Khan as his opponent. Meanwhile Golovkin, chose to wait a month almost for Canelo. Golovkin chose Canelo, Canelo chose to vacate. I even think there was talk of Saunders briefly, which amounted to nothing. Next, Golovkin chose Chris Eubank Jr. Eubank talked a good game for weeks, but when it was time to actually sign the deal, Eubank chickens out. GGG had a date to keep with HBO, and agreed to fight Brook. He didnt ask Brook, he didnt choose Brook, Brook stepped up like a real man amd chose Golovkin.
Then, there's the obvious difference between Brook and Khan. Brook is an undefeated champion at WW, a career WW, considered by some the best WW. Khan has had to move up divisions and was KOed at lighter weights. Khan is considered by most a joke witb a glass jaw and certainly not a top WW.
But, unless GGG fights Ward on Wards terms, or maybe Deontay Wilder, these same dudes will be here trashing 'lil g' for his opponent
I agree, we can't be biased here. Hearing some posters say that GGG "brought Brook up" or "it's worse because Brook is going up two weight classes" just smells like hate. He didn't bring him up, how close minded can you be when Hearn threw jr under the bus himself. C'mon people!
You can't compare Canelo bringing khan up for a tune up to fight GGG after and vacating the belt, to GGG not being able to get an opponent and finally settling for someone that actually wanted to fight him. How did difficult is it to see that GGG actually wants to fight every top guy at 160? Like this guy said, it was a better move to fight Brook in the UK knowing the time frame and money involved than to fight another "bum" at 160.
Give the Ward and Lara talk a rest already. They have their own career paths and plenty of game opponents to worry about. As for the 154-168 talk, it happened a long time ago so please just take it out of your arguments. If you have something concrete to say and logical by all means go ahead but those two subjects are like listening to a one hit wonder over and over again.
For the record I don't like that he's fighting a WW, who wouldn't have done the same in those circumstances though? I sure as hell wouldn't of passed the chance up regardless if it made me a hypocrite. Being honest and nice only gets you so far in life and that applies to the sport of boxing. Sometimes you have to take risks and change it up a bit if you will.