Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Rubio Middleweight Title Fight In Play For 10/18

[nycsmooth]

Rubio has been mandatory 4 over a year in WBC , but now going 4 WBA belt...shows how the WBC can't enforce their own rankings & mandates...he should have gone after Jacobs since wba has 2 160 "champs"...

[Mr. Philadel]

Barring an injury or any other circumstances beyond his control, unbeaten middleweight titlist Gennday Golovkin will fight for a third time in 2014. Plans are currently in place - though not yet finalized for an October 18 ring return versus Mexico's Marco Antonio Rubio.

The bout will most likely wind up taking place in Southern California. Golovkin has fought in New York in each of his last six stateside appearances, including five in a row at Madison Square Garden and its accompanying Theatre venue.

HBO - with whom Golovkin is under exclusive contract - has the option to reject the matchup, though it is likely the network will air the fight given past criticism of passing on Golovkin's knockout win over Osumana Adama earlier this year in Monte Carlo.

Rubio and his team have agreed to the offer presented to them, and now await for Golovkin's side to sign off to make the fight official. The 34-year old was eager to jump into the lion's den once it became clear that a desired crack at lineal middleweight champion Miguel Cotto wasn't going to happen.

"Since Miguel Cotto doesn't want to fight me, we're fighting Gennady Golovkin," Rubio (59-6-1, 51KOs) insists. "I never back down from anyone. This fight is going to happen." [Click Here To Read More]

[Hougigo]

Rubio has been mandatory 4 over a year in WBC , but now going 4 WBA belt...shows how the WBC can't enforce their own rankings & mandates...he should have gone after Jacobs since wba has 2 160 "champs"...

lol, had a letter and everything from them.

Ifit really did say Martinez only and not the winner, that's Rubio's fault

[bigjavi973]

Good fight, I like it.

It's a better match-up for Golovkin than Cotto. Rubio has the style to really spoil Cotto's newfound momentum and do a Trout/Lemieux job on him, but against Golovkin it's only a matter of time before Rubio either gets caught and stopped, or ends up losing in 12, or even manages to frustrate him as well. Also, Golovkin still needs opponents like this; Cotto is a veteran PPV star and only needs huge names to wind down his career.

oh god. Lemieux is ass.

[bigjavi973]

Ggg gets praised for fighting Rubio and when the fight was being mentioned for cotto ppl said garbage fight lol

correction... GGG fans were saying it was a garbage lol

[bigjavi973]

What a bunch of BS. I saw threads about Cotto vs Rubio on here and it was just the opposite. People knew Cotto would never take the chance and said "I'll believe it when I see it".

It's Cotto we're talking about. You know how his career works. He beats injured guys at the end of their careers, rides his nationalistic fan fervor about "fight anyone big balls Cotto the warrior" into a big money fight, loses it badly. Repeat.

Rubio is a live opponent who doesn't offer a 20 mil paycheck so he isn't in the cards.

oh please dont give me that crap. Cotto fought margarito when NOONE wanted to fight him, including fraudweather.

[bigjavi973]

a complete fantasy. first of all, he was cotto's mandatory so he could hardly be called a cherry pick, second of all, no one ever said that!

go back to the other threads, that has been said. Alot of responses was how is cotto cherry picking a mandatory challenger.

[bigjavi973]

Ha ! Sometimes boxing is like a game of checkers, chess or Monopoly !!

Cotto beats Sergio, and the next day his people are saying GGG needs to build up his name before challenging COTTO,,,, so now we are hearing that Andy Lee is up for Cotto ???????????????

Andy is a good guy, good for him, but compare his resume agin da Good Boy and look at the win loss and how many by KO and what do you see ?

I see Cottos People saying NO WAY WE DON"T WANT DAT MANG GGG !!!!!!!!!

Disappointed a bit in Roach saying GGG is a Decent fighter, hahahahahaaha

GGG KO's all comers in the 160's !!!!!!!!!

how about GGG vs martin murray?

[bojangles1987]

how about GGG vs martin murray?

Murray already has a fight signed.

[US Dirk Killer]

correction... GGG fans were saying it was a garbage lol

Don't forget cotto/PR fans