Comments Thread For: Cotto’s anti-establishment stance leaves GGG powerless

[alexander28]

#1 Mayweather
#2 Cotto
#3 Ward
#4 GGG
#5 Crawford
#6 Canelo

Haters in 3,2,1.

[THE MACK]

Criticism of Triple G is pure ignorance!

1st post on here so thought I would dive in at the deep end!

In my opinion, the criticism people are throwing at Gennady Golovkin is, as the heading states: total ignorance!
People are commenting on various issues including - his age, his opponents (or lack of them) and that he is ducking certain fighters, so lets clear it all up.

Age - Yes he is 33 yrs old, no spring chicken but for years was held back under previous promoters, where he was a stablemate of Felix Sturm and was never given the deserved exposure so has broken free from there and although he is in a better place with k2 he could have even better promotion if he was to seek pastures new, although I don't think the promotion is an issue now, he is there at that level where he will be involved in fights with big names (if they will fight him). The fact that he fights multiple times each year could make up for this and see him in some big upcoming fights.

Opponents - So far we have not seen Golovkin in with a truly A list fighter, I will be the 1st to acknowledge this. He has wins against a lot of decent fighters, but not really any 1 stand out name. Firstly, his amateur record 345-5! and his performances at the olympics/worlds have obviously given him chance enough to develop his skill set, this combined with the freak power he possesses, and is it any wonder he is struggling to get fights with big names!? How on earth has Cotto managed to fight Geale when GGG is WBC mandatory and has been for years since Martinez was ducking him!! So for people to say he has fought no one is ******ity! You can't fight against guys that are S**T scared to fight you in the ring!!


Even if Cotto managed to get a catchweight of 157 or 155 GGG absolutely kills him! The few pound would not drain him like they did Geale, and this circus Roach and Cotto are putting on is just to buy time, rich knows GGG destroys Cotto, Canelo goes the same way, and right now He beats both Froch AND Ward and everyone of those fighters knows that if they got in the ring with triple G in next 6 month they lose, down the line Ward is THE fight if he can get back to 168? Failing that he is really struggling for a top name, he would destroy James De Gale so where does he go?
He has called out everyone from Cotto to Canelo to Froch to Ward and not one of them wants it, Floyd isn't interested at 154! Realisticly where does he go, who does he fight?

You can only beat what is in front of you, if any of the Middleweights step up i.e. LEE, QUILLIN, LEMIEUX, while they would represent a step up, they all go the same way! The harsh reality is that we have a once in a generation wrecking ball that is tearing boxing up!!
It says a lot that the only two names at 168 people mention GGG with are Ward and Froch shows the respect he has already, which brings me nicely onto another point - people who say Cotto is HUGE and GGG is a nobody - the HBO ratings for the last fights were very close, Cotto vs Geale roughly 1.5/1.6 million, triple G vs monroe 1.3/1.4 million views so its not exactly a huge difference between a multi weight world champion and triple G, the surprising thing is that Canelo-Kirkland had 2.1 million views with HBO! So if you read anything into those stats it is Canelo who is box office out of those 3! Yes I know he probably had the toughest opponent of all 3 but it clearly shows that in comparison with Cotto, triple G is all that!! At least in the eyes of the PPV fans

[Beater_of_ass]

Man all these crazy GGG fans came out of nowhere once pac lost.

Damn... you're 100% right. The excuses fit the Manny groupies to perfection. Green K for connecting the dots.

[PETUFF]

Nothing special on GGG ...all he do is coming forward and get hit a lot but I want to see it against somebody with punch power to see if he gonna walk thru the punch!!it seems a bit Antonio Margarito... it really remind me Antonio Margacheato!

[Luilun]

I dont know how Lyle can follow boxing for so long and be so wrong so often. Cotto is not the middleweight champion, he's the 157 lb champion. I stole this from someone earlier but didn't feel like figuring out who. He's petrified of Golovkin, has nothing to do with bucking the alphabet titles. Get it together Lyle.

I call him the 157 pound champ as I call Floyd the 147 and 152 pound champ Cotto will be knock out by Canelo to end all the drama

[Barcham]

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It says a lot that the only two names at 168 people mention GGG with are Ward and Froch shows the respect he has already, which brings me nicely onto another point - people who say Cotto is HUGE and GGG is a nobody - the HBO ratings for the last fights were very close, Cotto vs Geale roughly 1.5/1.6 million, triple G vs monroe 1.3/1.4 million views so its not exactly a huge difference between a multi weight world champion and triple G, the surprising thing is that Canelo-Kirkland had 2.1 million views with HBO! So if you read anything into those stats it is Canelo who is box office out of those 3! Yes I know he probably had the toughest opponent of all 3 but it clearly shows that in comparison with Cotto, triple G is all that!! At least in the eyes of the PPV fans

Just a little note...

When it comes to ratings for the Canelo-Kirkland fight, you have to take into consideration that those ratings were skewed due to the replay of the Mayweather-Pac fight being broadcast immediately prior to the fight. Because of that, the Canelo-Kirkland ratings should not be used for comparisons to other fights.

[Muscles72]

It's obvious cotto is no middleweight he is an awesome fighter and is even better under Freddie Roach but GGG is much to big for him period.

[PeasantCrusha]

Cotto is the Godfather now. This is not 2012 anymore... When Cotto took Arum out, the takeover came to life.


Cotto is a boss now and peasants ALWAYS wish death on their boss. Envy and low self esteem will drive a peasant to drink.



Drink up!

[ELPacman]

It's hard not to feel for either fighter's case. In, Cotto's case, he's a midget Middleweight that started at 140lbs. For GGG, he's a relative unknown to the casual fans and wants the WBC strap and attention.

Cotto won't give GGG it because he knows GGG is too much for him when it comes to actual Middleweights, and GGG knows Cotto is too small of a Middleweight, an easy win, but he wants that WBC strap and the fame with taking Cotto's scalp.

I just want Cotto to vacate the Middleweight strap so it's up for grabs again and GGG can go a head and collect it, and Cotto stay at the WW to Super Welterweight limit where he probably fits in moreso.

If anyone believes Cotto is a true Middleweight that can handle 160lb guys when he weighed only 153lbs, are serious haters or just pissed Cotto is holding the strap. I can understand if your pissed he's holding the strap, but don't make it that you want to see him get brutalized by a naturally larger dude with serious power. It's not the way he should go out at this stage of his career.

He should collect the massive paycheck with Canelo fight and possibly retire after that because I'm not sure how many other massive paychecks are around that don't present frightening danger.

[Joe Beamish]

Cotto WILL give up the strap. He will not fight GGG.