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Hearns/Froch ducking Golovking? Wont fight him unless he's a "PPV attraction"
HEARN: NOT ENOUGH MONEY FOR GOLOVKIN-FROCH
Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn ruled out a fight between his fighter IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch and WBA 160 pound champion Gennady Golovkin last night, saying that the money isn’t there for a fight between those two fighters to be a pay-per-view event on HBO.
Hearn said on his twitter “Not enough money for it [Froch-Golovkin] – not quite HBO PPV yet.”
Hearn is probably right, unfortunately. Golovkin still isn’t at the point where he’s become a pay-per-view star despite having knocked out his last 17 opponents over a 5-year time span. And, Froch isn’t even close to being a big enough star in the U.S to make a Froch-Golovkin fight a pay-per-view worthy fight. As good a fighter as Froch is, he’s not as popular as Golovkin in the U.S, so there’s no way that a Froch vs. Golovkin fight would be a PPV fight.
Froch is talking about wanting to retire soon which makes a fight between him and Golovkin even more improbable in the future. Hearn says the fight isn’t “quite HBO PPV yet,” as if it’s a fight that could take place in the future. While it’s possible that Froch could stick around until 2016 or so, it’s not likely. It’s going to take at least that long before Golovkin to become a PPV attraction.
HBO kind of put Froch on the spot last night in their telecast of the Golovkin vs. Daniel Geale fight in which HBO commenter put up the following quote from Froch in an old interview on Sky Sports: “Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don’t need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.”
Some boxing fans feel that the quote was taken out of context in order for HBO to make Golovkin look better than he actually is. If Froch, a great fighter, is seen to be afraid of Golovkin, it helps boost his credibility with fans. This trick or may not have done anything in the eyes of casual boxing fans. It depends on how familiar they are with Froch. It’s quite likely that they’ve not heard of him, so this quote probably did little to raise Golovkin’s stature with American fans.
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Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn ruled out a fight between his fighter IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch and WBA 160 pound champion Gennady Golovkin last night, saying that the money isn’t there for a fight between those two fighters to be a pay-per-view event on HBO.
Hearn said on his twitter “Not enough money for it [Froch-Golovkin] – not quite HBO PPV yet.”
Hearn is probably right, unfortunately. Golovkin still isn’t at the point where he’s become a pay-per-view star despite having knocked out his last 17 opponents over a 5-year time span. And, Froch isn’t even close to being a big enough star in the U.S to make a Froch-Golovkin fight a pay-per-view worthy fight. As good a fighter as Froch is, he’s not as popular as Golovkin in the U.S, so there’s no way that a Froch vs. Golovkin fight would be a PPV fight.
Froch is talking about wanting to retire soon which makes a fight between him and Golovkin even more improbable in the future. Hearn says the fight isn’t “quite HBO PPV yet,” as if it’s a fight that could take place in the future. While it’s possible that Froch could stick around until 2016 or so, it’s not likely. It’s going to take at least that long before Golovkin to become a PPV attraction.
HBO kind of put Froch on the spot last night in their telecast of the Golovkin vs. Daniel Geale fight in which HBO commenter put up the following quote from Froch in an old interview on Sky Sports: “Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don’t need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.”
Some boxing fans feel that the quote was taken out of context in order for HBO to make Golovkin look better than he actually is. If Froch, a great fighter, is seen to be afraid of Golovkin, it helps boost his credibility with fans. This trick or may not have done anything in the eyes of casual boxing fans. It depends on how familiar they are with Froch. It’s quite likely that they’ve not heard of him, so this quote probably did little to raise Golovkin’s stature with American fans.
Read more at http://www.************.com/4310/hea...uHXvCZQUCsg.99
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