Comments Thread For: Golovkin Says He Feels Great, Not Even Thinking About Retirement

[SteveM]

lara wasnt a possibility? bruh how many times have we heard guys say theyd move up a class for the right fight? even golovkin signed his name to paper to fight chavez at 168 and pursued froch....lara wanted to fight him at 160 and was calling for it...its only a one class jump...guys routinely move from 154 to 160 .....and team golovkin never considered it..in fact they rebuffed the idea....they said he wasnt big enough of a name and not enough of a "draw" lol...even though golovkin was fighting the likes of whoever at 160....that was a time too when lara would have been the best scalp on golovkins resume....the problem was stylistically they didnt like the fight....they expected lara to fight like a cuban and it wasnt what HBO wanted to present.....

im glad you realize the media never pressured golovkin to fight ward like they should have....they do that to other fighters whenver the feel like it though....the reason they didnt is because HBO didnt want them to....HBOs preference was golovkin/canelo and ward/kovalev.....ward even said once in public "imagine our resumes were reversed and i was avoiding him...what theyd say about me".....

I can't argue with what you are saying but maybe the issue I have is that I feel Golovkin is singled out for criticism when in truth this is part of boxing. Boxers "bark" to get attention and push for a fight they think they can win and boxers who have a belt, or something to protect (financial pull, Like Tank) resist the high risk/low reward fights. Lets not also forget that Lara nearly derailed Canelo's ascent [ and all the moolah that has since been generated], so there was precedent for HBO to protect their investment.
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Floyd didn't fancy Thurman. Thurman didn't fancy Spence. Spence doesn't fancy Ennis and thats all at the same weight.
Nobody calling out Regis at JWW.
Nobody calling out Beterbiev at LHW and he has 2 belts.
Nobody mentions Hgrovic at HW.

Maybe the difference with Golovkin is that a lot of fans resent the fact that a non US fighter got a major promotional push (hype) when in their estimation there were more deserving American candidates. Apart from the apparent racial biases on this forum there are also patriotic biases; Golovkin is from a country 90% people never heard of. I'm not saying any of that is right, that's just what I see. The first fighters I really rooted for were Hagler after he destroyed Minter and Herol Graham. But I did root for Golovkin. Here was a monster who was very skillful and seemingly fearless (plus MW is one of my favourite divisions - reference Hagler and Graham.) and a KO artist. The guys he were knocking out were the best of the MW division at that time - it was a weak division at that time - and he did what he was supposed to do - get em out of there. For the record I'm rooting for Ortiz (less) and Ennis (more) for the same reasons.

Anyways, good discussing.

[aboutfkntime]

lara wasnt a possibility? bruh how many times have we heard guys say theyd move up a class for the right fight? even golovkin signed his name to paper to fight chavez at 168 and pursued froch....lara wanted to fight him at 160 and was calling for it...its only a one class jump...guys routinely move from 154 to 160 .....and team golovkin never considered it..in fact they rebuffed the idea....they said he wasnt big enough of a name and not enough of a "draw" lol...even though golovkin was fighting the likes of whoever at 160....that was a time too when lara would have been the best scalp on golovkins resume....the problem was stylistically they didnt like the fight....they expected lara to fight like a cuban and it wasnt what HBO wanted to present.....

im glad you realize the media never pressured golovkin to fight ward like they should have....they do that to other fighters whenver the feel like it though....the reason they didnt is because HBO didnt want them to....HBOs preference was golovkin/canelo and ward/kovalev.....ward even said once in public "imagine our resumes were reversed and i was avoiding him...what theyd say about me".....

Bullshltkin ran around for YEARS saying that he would fight... " anyone from 154-168 "

whenever the media mentioned Lara as an opponent, Bullshltkin would ridicule Lara and then select someone WORSE

Gennady " the path of least resistance " Golovkin

Gennady " cheap shine " Golovkin








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[CasperUK]

He should fight Munguia

Munguia is terrified