Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Lara Title Consolidation Clash Expected To Be Ordered, Per Previous WBA Ruling

[AKAcronym]

Or GGG could have just fought him. Vanes, szermeta, Rolls, and the rest of them buns didn't have to become mandatory for ggg to fight them.

Lara vs ggg didn't happen then and it's not gonna happen now. And we all know this

Well they didn't have ridiculous demands either.

[Hustle]

Well they didn't have ridiculous demands either.

And what were lara's ridiculous demands?

[AKAcronym]

And what were lara's ridiculous demands?

Fighting on Showtime, guarantee of at least a million. This was at a time when Golovkin was obviously an HBO fighter but still not big enough for his opponents to garner a purse that high for a regular non PPV fight. ****, he didn't even get his first million dollar purse until Monroe.

[rickJen]

Fight is fairly easy to make now, no more excuses.
Can't wait to see everything from presscon to fight night.

[Hustle]

Fighting on Showtime, guarantee of at least a million. This was at a time when Golovkin was obviously an HBO fighter but still not big enough for his opponents to garner a purse that high for a regular non PPV fight. ****, he didn't even get his first million dollar purse until Monroe.

Look at it from Lara standpoint. Lara made 1 million to fight canelo in 2014.

Why wouldn't he want a million to fight the middleweight champion a year later?

[AKAcronym]

Look at it from Lara standpoint. Lara made 1 million to fight canelo in 2014.

Why wouldn't he want a million to fight the middleweight champion a year later?

Because Golovkin isn't Canelo? and certainly wasn't back then. Nothing wrong with wanting a million but you got to realize the difference. Look at Canelo as more of a big studio and Golovkin more as an indie studio; you think an actor is going to get the same money for doing a big budget film, compared to doing an arthouse one? No, they're not.

[Shadoww702]

Sign me up! I'll buy.

[Hustle]

Because Golovkin isn't Canelo? and certainly wasn't back then. Nothing wrong with wanting a million but you got to realize the difference. Look at Canelo as more of a big studio and Golovkin more as an indie studio; you think an actor is going to get the same money for doing a big budget film, compared to doing an arthouse one? No, they're not.

That's the cost of doing business when you can't get a name to fight you. You pay to get that fight. And that was at a time when HBO was just happily paying andre berto 2 million a fight to fight bum after bum.

If ggg would have said yes. HBO would have made the fight. The budget wasn't the problem. The fighter not wanting smoke was the problem.

[Liondw]

Nah, not that interested in Golovkin-Lara, and I don't think Gennady is excited about that fight either.

Golovkin vs Munguia or Charlo, much better.

[AKAcronym]

That's the cost of doing business when you can't get a name to fight you. You pay to get that fight. And that was at a time when HBO was just happily paying andre berto 2 million a fight to fight bum after bum.

If ggg would have said yes. HBO would have made the fight. The budget wasn't the problem. The fighter not wanting smoke was the problem.

Pretty sure Berto's last fight on HBO was 2012, long before the timeline for Golovkin/Lara. And like I said before, Golovkin didn't get his own million dollar purse until May 2015, so whatever Berto was getting several years before, has no bearing on what G was making and what HBO was willing to to pay. Their budget clearly wasn't the same in the last few years.