Comments Thread For: Disappointment: Kirkland Not Injured, Wants More Money

[BoxingGenius27]

read the la times article where kirkland himself talks about what's going on, don't listen to promoters and managers.

kirkland is saying he's not 100% and for that he's not willing to fight. he said however everyone has their price and he'd fight canelo for like $2+ million dollars, he said he'd risk losing because of an injury for that kind of money, otherwise hell take his time and hopefully fight Canelo next year.

to suggest kirkland is scared of Canelo is silly since he willingly took two title eliminator fights to get canelo. Canelo is who he's been chasing this whole time.

bottom line is he's not 100% and that's that. Canelo will probably fight Trout and kirkland will take a tune up later in the year.

imo he's smart. he shouldn't go into the biggest and most challenging fight of his career coming off shoulder surgery.

I didn't see that article. I'll try to look it up though.

[SixerIverson]

Lets be real, Canelo vs Kirkland sell substantially more then any of the other options available...

Trout and K-9 at the very least can be marketed as a unification

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Where them Kirkland fanboys at?! This dude is b1tch!

[ИATAS]

what even makes him worthy of a big payday? he lost his last fight!

technically kirkland won, but besides its not like Cintron and Mosley weren't coming off losses when they got a shot at Canelo.

but like kirkland said he's not 100%, coming off shoulder injury and isn't going to risk it unless he got some crazy off, like $2 million which he knows he's not going to get.

[onechance87]

Lets be real, Canelo vs Kirkland sell substantially more then any of the other options available...

Its gonna sell cause of canelo.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

technically kirkland won, but besides its not like Cintron and Mosley weren't coming off losses when they got a shot at Canelo.

but like kirkland said he's not 100%, coming off shoulder injury and isn't going to risk it unless he got some crazy off, like $2 million which he knows he's not going to get.

So why accept the fight? They did "finalize" the deal didn't they? Kirkland about to steal the spotlight from Gamboa.

[onechance87]

kirkland will never be a warior like williams.

[Come∂ian]

Its gonna sell cause of canelo.

So Canelo vs K9, Trout and Kirkland all get equal PPV numbers?

[mathed]

Kirkland is shook and he is using money as an excuse. He prolly went and watched the Mosley fight and said forget this.

[feroth]

uhhh 2.5 mil? didn't like Ortiz get that to fight Mayweather...who the **** does this kid think he is? Canelo didn't make half that to fight Mosley...this kid and his adviser must be ****in ******ed! or they just know they're gonna get torn up by Canelo