Gennady Golovkin-the last great champion
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"I'll fight anybody 154-168 Gennady GGG Golovkin"
"um wait no not you Canelo, no 155 youre too good, come to 160, that was only for pac or mayweather"
"um wait no not you Ward, come to 164, 168 offer was only meant to give ME an advantage. I'll fight a cab driver or something there when I dont feel like draining to 160"
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Golovkin is a great champion, but Tyson Fury did not need anything to beat Hammer, he just couldn't resist the uncastrated wild boar. Canelo, also, just because he prefers Mexican beef, does not make him a cheat. Evan Fields was a massive cheat, obviously, but not these guys. RING RING - Evander Holyfield answers "Evan Fields."Comment
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GGG was already the mandatory challenger to Cotto's WBC title. The Cotto / Canelo fight was approved by Suliaman on the proviso that the winner was to fight Golovkin next: Was Golovkin dumb for assuming that meant the fight was a lock? You seriously telling me in those circumstances he should have turned his back on that and gone up to fight Ward?
https://www.************.com/2015/05...inst-golovkin/
(Boxing News 24)
Golovkins PPV with Lemieux was already arranged when Ward called him out with an offer they have one interim fight apiece in between - which in GGGs case would have meant he would have been agreeing to fight Ward next after fighting Lemieux... right in the timeframe he would have been hoping to fight the Cotto vs Canelo winner per the agreement with the WBC. I ask again, if you were guiding a fighter - any fighter, no matter how bold - what would you have done in the circumstances? It shouldn't even need to be a question.
Obviously the rest is history, Ward was under pressure himself to make a fight which would satisfy HBO's conditions so he couldn't hang around waiting for Golovkin to see what materialised and obviously he quickly moved on to negotiating with Kovalev (of course Golovkin receives criticism for attempting to face the smaller more lucrative fighter in Cotto / Canelo but rarely is it mentioned that Ward also attempted to face the smaller, more lucrative Golovkin before he went after Kovalev
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I ain't really criticising either, both behaved completely rationally according to the conditions they faced and the knowledge they had at the time... just business, as they say. Their paths were just not fated to cross. It happens. Folk on here love to generate narratives about fighters being somehow scared of each other or avoiding each other, but the simple fact is the vast majority of the time fighters are willing to face whoever's put in front of 'em.Comment
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