Comments Thread For: Hearn: Barker-Golovkin Would Require Huge Money

[DoktorSleepless]

So he's going to take the Felix Sturm approach? Stay home, fight easier fights, and avoid Golovkin?

They didn't say they won't fight Golovkin. Money would obviously have to better than the domestic fights though. It's prize fighting afterall.

[megabandp]

I'd like to see Golovkin fight Geale after Stevens then maybe Martinez next summer/fall.

[Russian Crushin]

Barker has big money fights that would actually be highly demanded in the UK against the other British fighters. (and Sturm too since he's fought all the British guys) This is actual real genuine demand, not demand from a boxing forum. Why fight Golovkin when you have the option to fight your British contemporaries for a lot of money already? That's where the big money comes in if a Golovkin fight were to happen. I don't see the problem with wanting big money. What's the controversy exactly? Barker isn't a Curtis Stevens with very little leverage.
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Why should he fight the best instead of hometowners? Is this suppose to be a serious question? I dont understand "fans" sometimes being a fighters manager/accountant

[Russian Crushin]

They didn't say they won't fight Golovkin. Money would obviously have to better than the domestic fights though. It's prize fighting afterall.

Oh please, if he was worth more money, he would get paid more. Only against golovkin do fighters need to be vastly over paid for the fighter to happen. I dont remember the last fighter this has happened with. I wish Hearn threw out the number he's thinking so we could all laugh at him

[Russian Crushin]

Offering everybody peanuts and saying they ducked him when they want more.

Peanuts? First of all the offer is given by HBO, not by Golovkin. Macklin just got paid $300K in a fight where golovkin got $350K. and it looks like stevens got 300K + as well. This is Darren fcuking Barker we're talking about, am i the only one who saw the 400 person crowd on saturday that they fought in front of? This is getting ridiculous, huge money?

[Hougigo]

Peanuts? First of all the offer is given by HBO, not by Golovkin. Macklin just got paid $300K in a fight where golovkin got $350K. and it looks like stevens got 300K + as well. This is Darren fcuking Barker we're talking about, am i the only one who saw the 400 person crowd on saturday that they fought in front of? This is getting ridiculous, huge money?

horrible location for the fight though

[Russian Crushin]

horrible location for the fight though

That fight would not draw a big crowd anywhere. HBO probably offered more money then anyone else (which was probably very little) and made it happen in the US.

[Hougigo]

That fight would not draw a big crowd anywhere. HBO probably offered more money then anyone else (which was probably very little) and made it happen in the US.

it would have done better though in Aussie or UK though. Don't know why it was im ac

[bojangles1987]

Peanuts? First of all the offer is given by HBO, not by Golovkin. Macklin just got paid $300K in a fight where golovkin got $350K. and it looks like stevens got 300K + as well. This is Darren fcuking Barker we're talking about, am i the only one who saw the 400 person crowd on saturday that they fought in front of? This is getting ridiculous, huge money?

These people only seem to think in terms of overhyped Broner and Berto numbers, as if most fighters get money like that. HBO shouldn't have to pay everyone who fights Golovkin a million dollars to get them in the ring with him.

[Hougigo]

These people only seem to think in terms of overhyped Broner and Berto numbers, as if most fighters get money like that. HBO shouldn't have to pay everyone who fights Golovkin a million dollars to get them in the ring with him.

especially if he's fighting on the network twice as much as them
he's a bargain right now