Serious question... how did Golovkin's popularity rise so fast?

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

I'm wondering what the Kazakh population in the u.s too. He had a decent amount of people show up for this fight and he might've grabbed the attention of the ones living here to start watching on HBO

He has a lot of Russian, Ukraine fans as well--which there are a lot of in NYC and the US--and most of them all pull for each other. Many Russians were born in these countries and vice versa.

[Hougigo]

Whoa.... evidently the Kazakh/American population is pretty small

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_American

[SplitSecond]

today at work i people actually brought him up, there was boxing talk, can you believe?

golovkin is getting recognized

[BUNGALOWS]

Whoa.... evidently the Kazakh/American population is pretty small
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_American

Good Lord. Only 3,000!?

[Hougigo]

He has a lot of Russian, Ukraine fans as well--which there are a lot of in NYC and the US--and most of them all pull for each other. Many Russians were born in these countries and vice versa.

WEll yea, there that too. Guy I was talking too had a Russian accent and didn't know wtf was going on, just came for Golovkin. Surprised because he didn't know who Kovalev was.
THe people I was talking about though looked like Golovkin. They were asian looking.... but not quite. Don't know how to explain it.
Light skinned with a slight accent on the eyes

[Hougigo]

today at work i people actually brought him up, there was boxing talk, can you believe?

golovkin is getting recognized

Where do you work? I've yet to hear anything

[jetgizo]

Yea... but I'm thinking like casuals. THe haters here make up a very small base....Frank Ducketts probably tells his friends to tune in to watch Golovkin get KO'd

It's all about consistency. Floyd hater AKA GGG fan wants Floyd to move up and fight guys 2 weight classes above him. Floyd fan AKA GGG hater wants to see GGG challenge the better more seasoned top 168 lbers in the world. Because it's obvious that the top 160 lbers aren't challenging GGG. At least not from a physical standpoint. So the Floyd lovers are taking the Floyd hater argument and using it against the GGG fan base. As for myself I find this whole thing amusing.

[SplitSecond]

Where do you work? I've yet to hear anything

ireland

suprisingly a guy even knew his signature punch, the left hook to the liver

[WilkinsOlajuwon]

WEll yea, there that too. Guy I was talking too had a Russian accent and didn't know wtf was going on, just came for Golovkin. Surprised because he didn't know who Kovalev was.
THe people I was talking about though looked like Golovkin. They were asian looking.... but not quite. Don't know how to explain it.
Light skinned with a slight accent on the eyes

LOL...those are what a lot of russians look like east of the Urals as well as former soviet republics like Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, etc. Guys like Kostya Tsyzu and Provodnikov. Geographically its close to China, Mongolia, Nepal so the peoples are mixed. I know lots of ukrainians, kazahks, russians, belursians, etc and they all pull for each other.

[Hougigo]

ireland

suprisingly a guy even knew his signature punch, the left hook to the liver

Maybe people were watching the lead in fight with Perez on there and saw the fight too? But whoever said that probably seen his fights before