Comments Thread For: Team Cotto: Golovkin Not Yet in Majors, Fight Premature

[hitking]

That would only make sense if Baldo decided to fight Junior Witter for the lineal ww title, thicko

Jr Witter. Let's see. Floyd beat Baldomir. Baldomir beat Judah. Judah beat Spinks. Spinks beat Mayorga. Mayorga beat Forrest. Forrest beat Mosley. Mosley beat DLH. I'm having trouble finding a former jr welterweight paper champion in that lineage. Help me out.

[richardt]

Were talking about headlining a PPV fight. Cotto/Trout was not a PPV fight.

There is no reason Cotto cant fight GGG in the fight after his next fight. And if Canelo is not a middleweight by then and he has indicated he is not, and Floyd is tied up or retired, that does not leave a bunch of options. Fact is, Trout was not as big of a name as GGG so this "majors" talk is a smokescreen.

[NachoMan]

Let me end all this talk right now.

If GGG is such a monster why is he trying to take on a fighter who we all know is even considered small for a 154 lb fighter.

If we love the catchweight so much let GGG fight SOG, or Quillen, or honestly why isn't the huge Chavez Jr not fighting him a 160-168?

We've gotten so use to Cotto fighting any and everyone that we are putting him up against guys he shouldn't even be fighting...enough.

Because Cotto is now the MW Champ, duh?!? GGG is not calling out the JMW champion but a fellow champion in his own division. Wow!

[hitking]

Floyd and Canelo are not 160 fighters, they havent fought anyone at 160.

GGG just beat a top 5 mw ex-unified champion.

Your post has no facts, you are just trolling.

Oh OK. So now you have to beat a 160lb'r. I get confused. Y'alls double standards are hard to keep up with.

[carloscruz10009]

Floyd and Canelo are not 160 fighters, they havent fought anyone at 160.

GGG just beat a top 5 mw ex-unified champion.

Your post has no facts, you are just trolling.

That's the sad stAte of all these belts...

[richardt]

Trout at the time beat almost all the 154 pounders that mattered in the ranks.

You IDIOT!!!! How is Rodriguez and DePorto "almost all the 154 pounders that mattered"?!!!!! You cannot be that ******!!

[bigjavi973]

Boxrec has chavez jr as his next fight for the wbc mw belt

[NachoMan]

Correct... Does that make cotto a fraud?

Yes, it makes him a fraud MW champion if he's going to duck legitimate MW competition to fight Welterweights and Junior Middleweights for the Middleweight title. Cotto's a great fighter. He's earned the right to hand-pick his opponent, just as he'll definitely earn the criticism he'll get for posing as the real MW champ of the world by not fighting MWs.

[Bachavelli]

Golovkin = the new Jeff Lacy.

[icha]

I don't have to "consider" him the lineal champion, he is. But that doesn't mean I have to sit here and act like a totally brain dead asswipe and pretend that he's a legitimate 160lb'r just because I want him to fight my man crush.

BTW, when did the lineal title become so important? Floyd was, and is still criticized for fighting Baldomir, who was the reigning lineal champion. During Roy Jones's run at light heavyweight, Darius Mickelschski was the lineal champion. And I believe he was beaten by Gonzolaz (a RJ victim), who was beaten Zsolt Eredi, who to my knowledge never officially lost the title. Tarver, Hopkins, or Calzage (the lineage of the title Tarver took from RJ) fighting Eredi was never a must fight. The lineal title is cool. But, it doesn't always represent the class of the division.

thats exactly the problem a 154lbs defending his title vs other 154 lbs...
if the title is not that important then just vacate and keep fighting guys on whatever division you want...