Comments Thread For: Golovkin Would Like To Face Andre Ward, But Not Now

[FrankieBruno]

When someone does or says this regarding a potential fight with GGG its perceived as a duck. GGG does it and gets a pass

Have it all ways hey

Quack quack!

Spot on...

[Weebler I]

This fight needs time to build.

The fight never needs to happen (imo)

[Los Zetas]

People already knew that fight was not going to happen at 168 now. He already said the end of 2014.

Martinez needs to fight GGG, a guy in his division.

[Hougigo]

HBO will at most only pay 3 million for a telecast nowadays. I don't think that's changing any time soon. Ward is already in the 2 million paycheck threshold fighting the likes of Rodriguez. And Golovkin's next fight on regular HBO will likely give him first million dollar paycheck and will only increase from there. A year from now this fight will be impossible because both fighters will be asking for too much. HBO is not going to pony up. And no freaken way Golovkin vs Ward will ever be a PPV. The time for this fight to happen is now when Golovkin still comes cheap.



I have no clue what point your trying to make in relation to my question. The correct answer is that that Golovkin lives under the same risk/reward motto as any other fighter and Ward is to risky for the reward.

I would be surprised if he got a million from his next HBO fight actually...
I think he got 500k for his last one....maybe 600-700?
Doubt a PPV too... only way that happens is if either man fight a PPV beforehand.
JCC with Ward and Martinez with Golovkin.

[DoktorSleepless]

I would be surprised if he got a million from his next HBO fight actually...
I think he got 500k for his last one....maybe 600-700?
Doubt a PPV too... only way that happens is if either man fight a PPV beforehand.
JCC with Ward and Martinez with Golovkin.

He got 1.4 million viewers in his last fight. Top 3 in HBO I think. He can demand it now.

It's also likely HBO will pony up more money for his opponents so I expect to see him get some marquee middleweight names next year because risk will finally meet reward.

[Ray*]

NSB agendas hard at work

To be honest most of them disappeared.

[thebowtod]

I would be surprised if he got a million from his next HBO fight actually...
I think he got 500k for his last one....maybe 600-700?
Doubt a PPV too... only way that happens is if either man fight a PPV beforehand.
JCC with Ward and Martinez with Golovkin.

the type of viewership golovkin gets he should defiantly get 1 million.

[Hougigo]

He got 1.4 million viewers in his last fight. Top 3 in HBO I think. He can demand it now.

It's also more likely HBO will pony up more money for his opponents so I expect to see him get some marquee middleweight names next year because risk will meet reward.

No doubt he can demand it, but by doing so... he probably concedes air time. The reason HBO had him on so many times last year was because he came relatively cheap. The Nov. card cost 800k in fighter purses (according to fat Dan) Less than a million is good for 1.4 million viewers.

I don't doubt HBO would pony cash for a bigger marquee name either. Murray, Geale...they both would get more than Stevens... especially now since Golovkin's ratings are rising.
Went from the lowest rating in HBO history (before Rigo/Agbeko) to top 3 of 2013.

[Weebler I]

HBO will at most only pay 3 million for a telecast nowadays. I don't think that's changing any time soon. Ward is already in the 2 million paycheck threshold fighting the likes of Rodriguez. And Golovkin's next fight on regular HBO will likely give him first million dollar paycheck and will only increase from there. A year from now this fight will be impossible because both fighters will be asking for too much. HBO is not going to pony up. And no freaken way Golovkin vs Ward will ever be a PPV. The time for this fight to happen is now when Golovkin still comes cheap.

If it should happen at all. I don't think Golovkin is a SMW and the last type of opponent he should face at a higher weight class is a Bika/Ward type mauler. He would probably lose and could compromise himself as one of the potentially great MWs.

Imo it would be a silly move on HBO's part too. They constantly push Ward but owing to his style I don't think he's ever going to be the crowd puller they want whereas foreigner Golovkin is doing bigger numbers than Ward against the likes of Curtis Stevens and is on a steep upward trajectory.

[SlySlickSmooth]

I don't get it. Even Andre Ward said words along that the fight doesn't need to be now and could be built up. Ward said that THIS year RECENTLY.

GGG isn't even getting a chance to fight the champs at 160.

Quillin: UHH WHO GGG, HE DONT MAKE THE MONEY BIG ENOUGH...
Murray: Yes I'll fight, nevermind I won't. Give me Sturm instead.
Martinez: Where's Cotto at?
Sturm: Who GGG? He's not proven enough. He's just the interim holder!!