Comments Thread For: Golovkin a Hit in The Ring, But Moves Backwards In Ratings

[ИATAS]

K2 will likely blame the ratings on the 8 month HBO layoff. He fought Adama in between but that was non-televised.

Still despite the layoff, the numbers are a huge disappointment in comparison to other lesser known fighters like Kovalev and Provodnikov who put up bigger numbers against lesser competition.

Maybe he does need an 'elite' opponent to get the hype back.

It happens sometimes. Bernard Hopkins vs Murat did over a million but Hopkins vs Shumenov did around 700k. Why? No idea. You'd think those numbers would be reversed since Shumenov was a unification bout and fought in the US many times while Murat never did.

Obviously it still sucks for GGG in the short term as far as trying to make a case for other big stars like Cotto to fight him now (but Cotto's team rejected that idea even before the ratings were released). So the best he can do I suppose is just stay active. Not many options out there.

[bigjavi973]

That you GGG fanboys are delusional and full of excuses.

im telling you, GGG fans are getting worse than floydie fans.

[big_james10]

I can't wait to read all the excuses offered by the Golovkin fans on this one.

[daggum]

wow this is almost bad enough that it could be on showtime

[hhs661]

Hey do you see the excuses? they are priceless... fighting in the summer hurts ticket sales.... Really? hum.....

Parents must've been back to school shopping for the kids Saturday night

[bigjavi973]

Oh well. He still beats anybody at 160 or 168

"but the ward fight doesnt make financial sense doe"-GGG fans
hahahaha you GGG fans are full of it.

[carloscruz10009]

"but the ward fight doesnt make financial sense doe"-GGG fans
hahahaha you GGG fans are full of it.

BigJavi... this is comic relief.. seriously especially after all the back & forth when Cotto said he wasn't in the Majors... lmao.... what great timing to make them look foolish... oh man this is great.

[MRCHOKEaMF]

The crazy part is even his fans dont want him to mix it up with Ward, but now he's gonna be forced to fight him. If his fans would call for him to take the challenge then it would be a HUGE fight, and shouldnt his fans think he could win if they think those past fights were legit?

[King_]

"but the ward fight doesnt make financial sense doe"-GGG fans
hahahaha you GGG fans are full of it.

And what's Wards excuse for not moving up from the division he cleaned out to fight Kovalev....?

[carloscruz10009]

Parents must've been back to school shopping for the kids Saturday night

Na they were out looking for colleges for their kids.. even though the kids are in 3rd grade... last weekend in july.. bad bad bad weekend for fights... cant do that.... how did the summer affect attendance for the world cup? just wondering? or baseball?