Duva vs K2, GGG vs Kovalev. How did Duva do a better job?

[Barcham]

Andre Ward

"Doesn't make financial sense, must be PPV, GGG needs huge chunk of the purse"

How many times that that have to be debunked? Ward himself has said that he is not interested in a GGG fight until he has tow or three tune up fights. And the fact is that, no, it does not make financial sense because GGG will make more from the Monroe fight than from any fight against Ward. Funny how it is fine for fighters like Cotto or Canelo to hold out for the highest paying fights but when GGG wants a DECENT return he gets dumped on.

There is a reason that Ward's next fight will be broadcast on that renowned boxing network, BET.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

How many times that that have to be debunked? Ward himself has said that he is not interested in a GGG fight until he has tow or three tune up fights. And the fact is that, no, it does not make financial sense because GGG will make more from the Monroe fight than from any fight against Ward. Funny how it is fine for fighters like Cotto or Canelo to hold out for the highest paying fights but when GGG wants a DECENT return he gets dumped on.

There is a reason that Ward's next fight will be broadcast on that renowned boxing network, BET.

The quotes from Team Golovkin are from a long time ago around the time when Ward had just beaten Rodriguez.

Why should Golovkin have been commanding a quote "large chunk of the purse" against Ward? He could have taken short money like Kovalev but he didn't.

What Kovalev did was take a calculated risk based on his confidence of winning a big fight.

GGG's people weren't willing to take a similar risk. Admittedly Ward is a harder fight and they probably weren't very confident that GGG would win.

[mick1303]

Kovalev didn't go north 8 pounds. Actually, for his last fight with Murray GGG weighted 158.9 - so he is quite comfortable at MW. People, who are pushing for GGG to go to SMW are just afraid of what he can do to money cows at 154. But once he's gone up, they can bulk up and campaign at 160. This is a real undercurrent here.