Brian Vera to be Golovkin's mandatory

[Russian Crushin]

Dzinziruk was shot to pieces when Vera got to him and you yourself said Martinez v. Dzinziruk was a 50/50 fight (this was already discussed in another thread).

Vera is a decent pressure fighter, he might bring the fight to GGG and maybe test him a bit. I would much have rather Golovkin have fought the likes of Rubio, Vera, Lemieux, Bursak, Adama, Guerrero, Zbik, etc. instead of his actual run of opponents: Lajuan Simon, Makoto Fuchigami, Proksa, Rosado, and Ishida. Proksa is the only decent opponent out of that lot...

Ideally I would hope Golovkin can fight at least two of the following before the year is done: Geale, Quillin, Macklin, Pirog, Rubio, Barker, Chavez Jr. Then we may be able to truly assess how good he is, but as long as he's fighting the Makoto's and Ishida's of this world we won't.

Look at who you're listing. Lemieux, Zbik, Bursak? Stay off of BoxRec

[ИATAS]

Well this makes zero sense if true. I doubt it happens.

[HeroBando]

Didn't Rubio say he'd fight him? Didn't Barker if the money was right? Whats that little stocky guy called? He challenged him.

The problem is, Rubio may have said that after Rosado signed, he wasn't saying a peep when the fight was still on the table:

http://espn.go.com/blog/dan-rafael/t...nnady-golovkin

Among the potential opponents who have been brought up are Marco Antonio Rubio (who lost a clear decision on HBO to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in a title fight in earlier this year), Fernando Guerrero (a one-time blue chip prospect and Al Haymon client) and Brian Vera (who knocked out Andy Lee a few years ago and then lost every round to him in a rematch on HBO 13 months ago). I’m told that Rubio turned down the fight and that HBO (thankfully) rejected Vera. HBO would accept Guerrero, but there might be an issue between Haymon and K2 over future contract options. So we’ll see who they come up with for Golovkin.

Why don't we ever hear from him when GG is looking? Back in July his name was mentioned, he went quiet. Now he's lined up for Quillin anyway.

Barker's promoter pretty much said, forget about that fight. You seen the interview?

[Russian Crushin]

Watch the fight before you start talking shit. You clearly don't understand boxing if you're saying that Dzinziruk wasn't winning any round at all.

Like i said he clearly won 1 or 2 rounds. I know what i saw and the judges and most boxing fans would agree with me. Good thing you've found the fight, now watch it for the first time bro

[Russian Crushin]

Didn't Rubio say he'd fight him? Didn't Barker if the money was right? Whats that little stocky guy called? He challenged him.

He said that while being lined up for Quillin and not when Golovkin was actually looking for an opponent. Hearns already made it pretty clear Barker was fighting him

[chiguy91]

so it's golovkin/vera on hbo in june? idk why, but for some reason i'm okay with that. it's not much different than rosado imo. at least vera's a legit MW and is coming off a good win (albeit an older dzizniruk). everyone else is booked up. martinez only fights twice a year and he's fighting murray in april. chavez is suspended and is most likely having his return fight against macklin. quillin is fighting guerrero, and talks from what i've seen are geale/soliman are likely. where's pirog? imo that's the most interesting fight to be made besides martinez/golovkin.
i'm not subscribed to hbo anymore so i'm not really concerned on golovkin eating up dates against guys like rosado or vera. have at it if none of the other titleholders are available imo. wasn't rubio calling golovkin out? not sure, but i remember reading that headline on here before. if golovkin can't get the best in the ring with him, the second best thing to do is stay active, but against legit MWs since he's at that weight class. vera will actually make for a pretty entertaining fight tbh.

[DoktorSleepless]

we ever hear from him when GG is looking? Back in July his name was mentioned, he went quiet.

Abel Sanchez said HBO rejected Rubio for Golovkin's first fight.

[HeroBando]

Abel Sanchez said HBO rejected Rubio for Golovkin's first fight.

Thanks for the info. I never saw him mention GG's name till this december, after Rosado had already signed. Before new years the news comes out he's lined up for the winner of Quillin/Guerrero, so it's a moot point.

[DoktorSleepless]

Besides the other full champions, which fighters do you think would make some amazing mandatory compared to Vera? Sturm is coming off two loses. N'dam is coming off his Quillin losses and has that rematch clause. Zbik is coming off two loses. Proksa was already beaten by Golovkin. Rubio is the mandatory for Quillin. Macklin would be fine (he's not even listed in the WBA rankings for whatever reason), but since losing officially losing to Sturm and Martinez, he's only win is Alcine. Murray actually made sense when he was the WBA interim champ, but he's fighting Martinez. Solimon is the IBF mandatory, but who knows what's going on with his positive drug test.

That pretty much leaves the fringe contenders in the Vera quality.

Yes, it's strange that Vera isn't ranked in the WBA rankings and suddenly is the mandatory, but some of the guys ahead of Vera in the WBA list are even stranger.

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Originally Posted by BafanaBafana

Dzinziruk was shot to pieces when Vera got to him and you yourself said Martinez v. Dzinziruk was a 50/50 fight (this was already discussed in another thread).

Vera is a decent pressure fighter, he might bring the fight to GGG and maybe test him a bit. I would much have rather Golovkin have fought the likes of Rubio, Vera, Lemieux, Bursak, Adama, Guerrero, Zbik, etc. instead of his actual run of opponents: Lajuan Simon, Makoto Fuchigami, Proksa, Rosado, and Ishida. Proksa is the only decent opponent out of that lot...

Ideally I would hope Golovkin can fight at least two of the following before the year is done: Geale, Quillin, Macklin, Pirog, Rubio, Barker, Chavez Jr. Then we may be able to truly assess how good he is, but as long as he's fighting the Makoto's and Ishida's of this world we won't.

Look at who you're listing. Lemieux, Zbik, Bursak? Stay off of BoxRec

Those are actually step ups for him...



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