Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter Discusses Potential Mayweather Bout

[SN!PER]

$ 100 million wouldn't be enough for May to take this fight.

[doom_specialist]

Its good you didnt draw that parallel, since its dumb as a rock. Did that guy sit on the belt for 2.5 years without a single defense at the regulation weight? Did he win the lineal belt at a CW?

Canelo wasnt considered The Man by anyone, look at his resume then. A disputed win over Trout and what else? 2nd best win shot undersized Mosley, or Ryan Rhodes?

But its not just this that makes Floyd a joke of a lineal SWW champ, its that his fanboys keep disowning the belt when discussing tough fights at SWW, saying this paper champ is too small and old to take on all comers at the weight

1. He didn't sit on the belt, but it was a belt that he should not have won regardless of what he did with it, and a belt that he should not have even been able to challenge for. He had done absolutely nothing at 154 to even deserve the shot. That's where the parallel comes in, and it's valid, because Mayweather did the exact same thing. They got shots at belts they didn't deserve based on their ability to draw. It was wrong in both cases.

2. Who at 154 was rated higher than Canelo at the time? Unified champion with the Ring belt isn't good enough to start a lineage? Who else at 154 did he need to beat then? I'm pretty sure Canelo was #1 at SMW, aka "The man."

3. I'm not a Floyd fanatic, and as such, I call BS on plenty of stuff Floyd does. I don't hate him however, so I attempt to look at it from both sides, instead of just hoping he sends himself to the chopping block. He has stiff competition at 147, and I don't think he should challenge the best middleweight in the world at 38 years old, after already going through 5 divisions. He's entirely too small to face GGG. De La Hoya - Hopkins should tell you that.

I don't think Floyd is ducking GGG, the same way I don't think GGG is ducking Ward, the same way I don't think Ward is ducking Kovalev. Implying that someone is ducking a guy in another division just doesn't compute to me.

[junior gong]

No excuse needs to be made, this fight is not even realistic and no one is even calling for it

Everyone is calling for it except for floyd and the floydspastics like you.

[SN!PER]

We need some more Henry Armstrongs and Sugar Ray Robinsons in boxing.

If they were alive today, they'd battle him without a catchweight.

[Reloaded]

Everyone is calling for it except for floyd and the floydspastics like you.

Id like to see Manny fight Canelo or GGG what about you would like to see those fights ?

[doom_specialist]

Mayweather fans claim people detract from what he does anyway, so what's the difference? All you're doing is justifying him avoiding another potential opponent.

So you find it OK for a welterweight at the end of his career to accept a challenge from the best middleweight in the world, either near or in his prime? It's not a justification; It's simply a fight that does not need to be made. Thurman/Khan and Pacquiao are the fights I'd like to see Mayweather end his career with. They're top fighters in his division (2 of them anyway), and 1 is long overdue. They're his size, and they're fights that everyone says he'll run away from, like every other potential fight he has.

[junior gong]

Id like to see Manny fight Canelo or GGG what about you would like to see those fights ?

How many years are there in a decade?

A)10

B)11

C) 43

[Citizen Koba]

IDK. Whilst I accept that it is a legitimate match-up providing Golovkin is willing to go down to 154 and challenge for Floyds JMW titles, I just can't work up that much enthusiasm for this fight.

Maybe I'm overating GGG or underating an aging Floyd, but it seems to me that most people wanting this fight are more interested in seeing Floyd get beaten than in seeing a competitive boxing match.

Now, I ain't a Floyd fan - in fact I'm largely indifferent, but I've also no desire to see him beaten up in a fight he has no real good reason to take, just for the sake of it.

The 6lb gap between JMW and MW is relatively one of the easiest in the sport to cross and given that Golovkin actually comes to the ring lighter than a good number of top JMWs I've little doubt we'd see close to a full fettle MW in Golovkin fighting Floyd. To me, this would be a large step too far.

I'm one of those who scored FMJ - Maidana I fairly wide to FMJ, but Maidana wasn't (and still isn't) even an elite WW. Golovkin is an elite MW - not only does he posses far greater power, he is, more importantly, a level or two above Chino in the skills department.

As Loeffler points out, Golovkin, like any other fighter able to make the weights FMJ fights at would like to be in the sweepstakes, but he's also smart enough to acknowledge that there's no point in even discussing it... Floyd fights who Floyd chooses, and there's no good reason to expect Golovkin to be part of that discussion.

IMO Golovkin should try to work towards MW unification over the next year, but if he's reached mid 2015 without any big fights on the horizon at 160 he needs to get his ass up to 168 (and he'd be smart to consider any lucrative fight that turns up at 168 in the meantime anyway - if only to make a mark - and a few $s).

[Reloaded]

How many years are there in a decade?

A)10

B)11

C) 43

How did your test go , dont be ashamed of your flat head you were born that way .

[Mr. Objectivity]

lets be real.. floyd will protect his zero no matter the cost......including ducking and dodging all the possible threats out there.......sadly that includes GGG