Comments Thread For: Lemieux: If Financials Are Correct, I'll Fight Golovkin

[kafkod]

That's if hbo wants to waste their money broadcasting him again w/o fighting golovkin. Fighting on fs2 won't raise his profile stateside and not like they can just go to showtime

Oscar said that Lemieux will be on HBO from now on.

[Corelone]

Next up:

"Financials weren't fine, that's why the fight didn't happen"

Next up: Lemieux signs with Haymon, needs a tune up, stay busy.....

[Santa_]

GGG's team better not low-ball him!

I really want to see this fight.

WAAAAAAR LEMIEUX!!!

[Scott9945]

The "financials" have to be satisfactory for ANY fight to be made. That's why it is called prizefighting. But apparently it is easy for boxing message board posters to dismiss that as an excuse.

[onechance87]

lemiux getting 2 million would be a fair.If ggg really wants
to unify he will pay.Its a big fight especially if its in canada.

[sicko]

Well yeah HBO is going to have to open up the checkbook if they want this one. It is not PPV worthy here in the US, maybe it is in Canada though not sure

But yeah of course somebody is going to have to pay good money for this match up!

[Barcham]

lemiux getting 2 million would be a fair.If ggg really wants
to unify he will pay.Its a big fight especially if its in canada.

And what has Lemieux done so that he deserves more money in his first title defense than GGG has ever earned for a fight? Not to mention that he will be a distant B side to Golovkin in ANY fight in ANY venue?

[Barcham]

Well yeah HBO is going to have to open up the checkbook if they want this one. It is not PPV worthy here in the US, maybe it is in Canada though not sure

But yeah of course somebody is going to have to pay good money for this match up!

Just about every fight that happens at that Bell Center in Montreal is a PPV fight in Canada. Lemieux - N'Dam was PPV. The only recent fight that was not PPV was the most recent Stevenson - Bika fight and that is only because it was on US network television which cannot be blacked out in Canada making a PPV impossible.

[Jewish-Reptile]

The "financials" have to be satisfactory for ANY fight to be made. That's why it is called prizefighting. But apparently it is easy for boxing message board posters to dismiss that as an excuse.

Don't even try to explain it, it's lost on them. Greens sent.

[Jewish-Reptile]

And what has Lemieux done so that he deserves more money in his first title defense than GGG has ever earned for a fight? Not to mention that he will be a distant B side to Golovkin in ANY fight in ANY venue?

Just about every fight that happens at that Bell Center in Montreal is a PPV fight in Canada. Lemieux - N'Dam was PPV. The only recent fight that was not PPV was the most recent Stevenson - Bika fight and that is only because it was on US network television which cannot be blacked out in Canada making a PPV impossible.

You answered your own question, Lemiuex is a ppv attraction, whilst GGG is simply GGG. Now you understand why GGG loiters around the middleweight division hanging around to fight guys who've been knocked out by guys he knocked out, and now you understand why he wants no part of the likes of Andre Ward and the super middles.