Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Ward: Promoter Doesn't See Financial Sense

[KnickTillDeaTh]

1. Ward can't fight....he can't even sign a contract at the moment for a fight.
2. This would not be a ppv fight and the highest HBO pays for a non ppv even is $2.75 million to be split up amongst both fighters with the A-Side usually taking the bulk.
3. Ward is not going to accept the fight even if he could because in HBO's eyes he's not the marquee name in this equation, while the public may argue differently it's not the public who handles the numbers and the views for each guys fights paints a different story than the public would believe.
4. Ward would be smarter to fight Chavez jr and take away his fans first
5. Gennady would be smart to fight cotto or canelo and improve his ticket sales.
6. HBO would be absolutely ****** to let this fight happen before it's ppv worthy.
7. Neither guy has had a ppv bout and those names i mentioned would put them on ppv before they face each other.

Cotto got 3 mill to fight Rodriguez on HBO and that doesnt include Rodriguez' purse.

[Lords]

And Cotto/GGG doesn't make Financial sense either. They just don't want any part of Ward because they know what will happen.

[-Kev-]

Boxing is about the best fighting the best. GGG and his team are choosing the money fight over the best fight. Let's see if NSB keeps with its historical behavior and turns their collective back on him since boxing isn't about making money.

LOL, you know what's going to happen. The same posters who call other posters "Lawyers, Accountants, and Businessmen" will now do a complete turn around and become Golovkin's Financial Advisers, Attorneys, and CEO's of K2. Just watch

[-PBP-]

Boxing is about the best fighting the best. GGG and his team are choosing the money fight over the best fight. Let's see if NSB keeps with its historical behavior and turns their collective back on him since boxing isn't about making money.

Of course not. I'm not reading 3 pages of comments but I'm sure it's a lot of "GGG gotta get dat money doe", "Ward can't sell doe", "Ward won't travel to Kazakhstan to fight him doe", "Nobody would pay to see dat doe".

[-Kev-]

Ward makes no financial sense, we want Soliman.

[nacho daddy]

Of course it doesn't make sense, GGG can't beat Ward. If team GGG thought he could beat Ward, they would make the fight. They don't.

why does fighter have to move UP for ward. why dont the big mouth ward fight the KO russian at 175 and not in oakland. ward needs to be seriously tested for PEDs the way he threw around Foch who was the strongest SM I ever saw

[nacho daddy]

Of course not. I'm not reading 3 pages of comments but I'm sure it's a lot of "GGG gotta get dat money doe", "Ward can't sell doe", "Ward won't travel to Kazakhstan to fight him doe", "Nobody would pay to see dat doe".

that doe dribble was not even funny the first time never mind 100 times later but I guess you get something out of it lol

[Plutonium]

Boxing is about the best fighting the best. GGG and his team are choosing the money fight over the best fight. Let's see if NSB keeps with its historical behavior and turns their collective back on him since boxing isn't about making money.

Andre Ward likes to repeat "Boxing is prize fighting not pride fighting". One of the bests in boxing practically says "boxing is about making money". So who should we listen to? Andre Ward or you?!

[Outwest Exp 355]

If they thought they could beat Ward Ward would be lacing up his gloves right now.

[Loque-san]

Who are these big names at 160 that Loeffler is talking about? Canelo fights at 154... I meant 155, and Cotto won't go anywhere near GGG.

As some posters said before, what happened to the best should fight the best. What's next for Golovkin? Soliman, Lee, Murray lol. What's the point of these fights? I think he already proved he was too good for these guys at 160 when he destroyed Macklin and yesterday Geale. If GGG vs. Ward can't happen because GGG wants to stay at 160, then fine, but don't serve us that "Ward can't sell so it doesn't make sense business wise bull****". Nobody here should accept that, no matter if you are a Golovkin fan or one of his detractor.