Tom Loeffler - "You Will Be Pleasantly Surprised with Golovkin's Next Fight"

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Yeah, I think the window of opportunity for GGG/Ward has closed now, for a while anyway. I can't see GGG moving up for Ward when he is within sight of his No1 goal, unification at MW.

Because he knows he'd lose?

[Kagami Taiga]

Man, I'll be happy when this guy unifies all the rest of those worthless mw trinkets. Only fights I really wanna see are Golovkin vs. Canelo and Golovkin vs. Ward. I understand the unification argument so if those are the fights he's taking so be it. Other wise, it's time to step up big time.

[soul_survivor]

That seems to be the implication

it's just such a ****** statement, what was he thinking?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

it's just such a ****** statement, what was he thinking?

Another Loeffler Moment

[NEETzsche]

Because he knows he'd lose?

because yo-yoing in weight is unhealthy. ward himself has said as much, hence he wants to exhaust his possibilities at smw before moving up to take on kovalev. golovkin is just doing the same thing, one division lower. what will hopefully happen is that golovkin will unify middleweight, then move up and face ward, and then if ward wins, ward will move up and face kovalev (but if golovkin beats ward i don't see him moving up again). everything in its right place

golovkin was only tempted to alter those plans and prematurely gain weight for a big money fight like froch or chavez jr

[b00g13man]

because yo-yoing in weight is unhealthy. ward himself has said as much, hence he wants to exhaust his possibilities at smw before moving up to take on kovalev. golovkin is just doing the same thing, one division lower. what will hopefully happen is that golovkin will unify middleweight, then move up and face ward, and then if ward wins, ward will move up and face kovalev (but if golovkin beats ward i don't see him moving up again). everything in its right place

golovkin was only tempted to alter those plans and prematurely gain weight for a big money fight like froch or chavez jr

Yo-yoing wasn't an issue when Froch and Chavez Jr were on the line though...

[BostonGuy]

What are the chances it's Lara? Lara seems like the best available opponent out there right now

[NEETzsche]

Yo-yoing wasn't an issue when Froch and Chavez Jr were on the line though...

did you literally only read the first sentence of my post? he was willing to take that risk for them because they brought money to the table. plus he could probably beat them without actually becoming a full super middleweight (i.e. he could just cut less weight rather than gaining muscle). to beat andre ward he would probably have to fully acclimatise to the weight (i.e. gain muscle), which would make it impossible to come back down to 160 lbs and finish his business there. he offered the catchweight i suppose because it's easier to gain and subsequently lose 4 lbs of muscle than it is 8 lbs, so if ward wanted the fight before golovkin was ready to move up, then compromises would have to be made

[MDPopescu]

What are the chances it's Lara? Lara seems like the best available opponent out there right now

Lara? Haymon has to speak up... Give him a break for HBO... Did you hear anything in this sense?

[kafkod]

Because he knows he'd lose?

Grow up FFS.