Ward on BET gets 325K viewers

[bigjavi973]

i don't understand what point you are even trying to make. golovkin routinely draws 1m-1.4m viewers on regular hbo and to headline a ppv event he'd need a dancing partner who draws at least as much as he does

If so... then GGG should stop begging for PPV fights.

[JJRod]

I don't know what those ratings mean, as I'm not sure what Roc Nation's goals for ratings were, but I do know that Andre Ward looked great.

Yes he was fighting Paul Smith, but he was sharp, accurate, and willing to close the show. This Ward should be welcomed back to HBO with open arms.

[Death_Adder]

AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhh

You are a pacquiao fan! Makes sense you would hop on GGG's nuts so fast.

Also, when did Cotto say he doesn't want to fight GGG? Link & quote please.

Really that's your defense? I'm a Pacfan?

Look at my sig genius, I'm not nor will ever be a Pac fan(I'll root for him against certain fighters though)

Try again.

And come on, everyone knows Cotto is scared shitless of GGG

[NEETzsche]

If so... then GGG should stop begging for PPV fights.

how do you figure? golovkin's last fight drew only 200k fewer viewers than cotto's last fight, yet if they were to fight each other golovkin would probably accept a much smaller chunk of the purse. so it sounds like excellent business from cotto's perspective... so why doesn't he want the fight?

[ИATAS]

If so... then GGG should stop begging for PPV fights.

Golovkin vs Ward is going to happen.

Ward just had his tune up after a very long layoff, he's likely going to have another fight of a lesser opponent (better than Smith though) and Golovkin is still trying to accomplish his goals at 160. GGG was only willing to step away from those goals and temporarily move up to 168 if a big money fight presented itself such as Froch or Chavez. Since those are now gone, he's not going to move up in weight until he's at least collected another belt at 160 and/or fights a big name in cotto/Canelo. Which is fine since Ward announced he's staying at 168 and isn't going anywhere himself.

This means Ward will get another fight or two in, Golovkin will get another fight or two in and they'll come together in 2016. Works better for both parties since they'll likely be a lot more money to split after the fight builds itself.

Ward vs Golovkin will be one of boxings biggest fights next year.

[The Big Dunn]

Really?

He's had a longer time as heavyweight champion than Ward has had at super middleweight.

Why do you approve of Ward's holding, but not Klitschko's?

I am not discussing wlad in this thread. How I feel about him is not related to Ward.

GGG and ward is a fight most of us want to see, regardless of how low the ratings for Ward/Smith was.

GGG is the a side, make the fight happen.

[The Gambler1981]

That was the only quote I enjoyed. That one was pretty damn good.

Buffet bit that one from Joseph Kennedy~

"I knew it was time to sell when my shoeshine boy gave me a stock tip."

[bigjavi973]

The pretender has yet to fight anyone at the full 160lbs limit. Comes in beats a cripple and then weight drains Golovkin's left-overs. He was unproven at 154lbs. Beat Yuri Foreman, a shot Mayorga, a shot Delvin Rodriguez, a one eye Margarito and lost to Trout and Mayweather.

Now here you are praying a guy in the next weight class up - Ward will protect him.

Wow talk about reaching!

You keep doing that. You are looking real intelligent.

[icha]

No, he can't. Neither can Cotto, or Canelo, or Ward, or Froch, or Chavez Jr., or ..... you name 'em. There are only two fighters who are PPV on their own, no matter who they fight and that is Floyd and Pac. Something you are very well aware of.


It is funny to see all the Cotto-tards coming into this thread to just spew the same old crap they spew in every thread. Any chance they have to repost the same old shit, they can't help themselves.

just so that you know: canelo made a ppv vs fuccing angulo and both were coming off loses, the ppv did 375k buys enough to pay canelo-gbp around 10 mill, angulo 1 mill and showtime made another 10 mill for them selves ..
canelo made 5mill vs kirkland(1mill) on regular hbo... he also made similar money vs noname lara on ppv... as popular as ggg is i dont see why cant they find a way to make 4 mill to split on both fighters...

[NEETzsche]

GGG is the a side, make the fight happen.

how do you propose he does that?

ward is the one with roc nation behind him - if he can convince them to cover the costs, then we've got a fight