Comments Thread For: Lemieux's Next Stop: Mandatory Defense, Not Golovkin

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Here I'll save you the trouble:

"He's better than anyone on Lara's entire resume!" - DirkUK

And then someone will say:

"But Haymon/HBO aren't doing business together!"

Dirk will reply with:

"But then Leoffler shouldn't pretend he's doing EVERYTHING he can to get fights, while clearly AVOIDING the issue of Lara!"

And this would have continued for eternity. I just saved you the trouble, thank me later.

Still haven't got a response to that so I'll continue asking the questions.

You saw my 4 step theory. Step 1 is complete. Lets see what happens next.

[MDPopescu]

Uh oh. Somebody get Andre Ward to confront Bernard & Oscar to stop lying to the fans!

IBF confirmed no issue with @GGGBoxing vs @lemieuxboxing in unification fight next, #BestFightingBest lets do this @GoldenBoyBoxing

— Tom Loeffler (@TomLoeffler1) June 23, 2015

Green K sent...........................

[Ray*]

Lemieux would probably end up fighting Canelo at 160 in the end, GGG should fight Lara and Ward who are willing to fight him.

[T18Z]

Somebody needs to tweet this to Golden boy & Oscar because they're really going to be running out of excuses. They want to fight their mandatory (which IBF says isn't needed now) and another fight after that? For what exactly?

Oscar doing everything he can to desperately save his fighter from getting destroyed. Even offering himself to fight GGG instead .

[MDPopescu]

So: GGG was called out by piles of dangerous people...

... But right now he was supposedly left with Lara and Bradley (!?!)... But Bradley seems to be the most effective with his tongue-in-cheek...

[kafkod]

Would Lara be the best fighter on Golovkin's resume? Yes or no

P4P, maybe. But at 160, Murray, Geale, Rubio, and maybe even Monroe - because he's fucking huge at the weight - would all beat Lara, imo.

Sorry, but only you seem to rate him. He just doesn't throw enough punches on the retreat to beat anybody strong enough to make him run.

At the top level, Lara is a survivor, not a winner.

[SlySlickSmooth]

IBF is ready, is Golden Boy ready?

IBF confirmed no issue with @GGGBoxing vs @lemieuxboxing in unification fight next, #BestFightingBest lets do this @GoldenBoyBoxing

— Tom Loeffler (@TomLoeffler1) June 23, 2015

[leshakal]

If Lemieux doesn't fight Golovkin after his mandatory what else could it be if not a blatant duck?

He'll be the guy that fight Canelo ...

[PlasterWraps]

Would Lara be the best fighter on Golovkin's resume? Yes or no

L to P Will and Canelo
D with Vanes and Molina.

What a world beater Lara is.

You also answered none of my questions. What does Lara bring to the table? I'll wait. After Golovkin stomps him, will that finally get Canelo and Cotto to step up to the plate? Yeah, didn't think so. You keep on ignoring that and the HBO/Haymon beef, while the rest of us here in reality keep calling you a dunce.

[kafkod]

Another Golovkin fan who is literally admitting that he wants to see GGG in with no namers and no hopers rather than have a tricky fight against a world class fighter.

This is beyond sad.

I'm not telling you what I want to see. Unfortunately, nobody consults me on matters like this.

I'm trying to explain to you why Loefler might not be so keen on Lara as you are.

There is also the question of money to consider. Monroe Jr was paid $100,000 for fighting GGG. Lara was paid $1 million for his last fight with Rodriguez, and would expect more than that for GGG, obviously. But Lara wouldn't bring any more fans than Monroe did. So?

And do you have any thoughts on why it is that, if Haymon is OK about Lara fighting GGG on HBO, his manager hasn't started tweeting about it?