Comments Thread For: Andre Ward-Gennady Golovkin Roadblocked Over Weight

[bigjavi973]

We all know you're agenda bcuz you're a Cotto fangirl. If Golovkin held a belt at 168 I'd be pee'd off too that he wouldn't fight Ward.

Excuses. I have no agenda. Quote me defending Cotto using catchweights and what not. Ill wait.

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bigger guys shouldn't be asked to come down

you never know if they're healthy at that weight

here's how i see it: when golovkin was a nobody and ward was a true 168, golovkin was truly willing to move up to 168 and take a chance on that fight to get his name in the lights

now golovkin has emerged as one of the stars of boxing and ward is a nearly forgotten fighter straddling between 168 and 175, so golovkin has much more attractive options like pursuing same sized canelo, lemiuex, etc

not ward's fault at all

so how about give up the charade and ward commits to 175 for kovalev, hopkins etc while golovkin admits he's a small MW and fights lara, lemiuex, canelo

[bigjavi973]

Do you win the argument if you can guess what they are gonna say even if you do not demonstrate that their argument is wrong/illogical? You are just pointing out that GGG fans feel he is the A-side, but what is your counter? Is GGG not the A-side? Or do you feel it doesn't matter who the A-side is?

Simple. Froch & Chavez Jr at 168 but Ward at 164.

A side doe

[Sweet Pea 50]

I wonder how many of the GGG stans giving him a pass over this were shitting on Rigo for asking for one against Loma.

[ИATAS]

Cotto moved up 4 weightclasses already, GGG is still in his first one and you're ****ting on Cotto fighting Sergio which was at 159, 5 pounds more... still another pound higher than the CW GGG is calling for.

Cotto owns the WBC belt in which Golovkin is mandatory to and the lineal middleweight crown, which Golovkin has every right to compete for. If Golovkin owned the lineal crown at 168 you'd have a point, but he's never fought there. All Golovkin is trying to do is win the titles in the weight class he campaigns at. What a crime!

[ИATAS]

Simple. Froch & Chavez Jr at 168 but Ward at 164.

A side doe

It's already been explained to you bigjavi - Golovkin doesn't have to move up a weight class, there is no obligation to. The fact that they were willing to fight Chavez/Froch was about the reward (money, exposure/fame). It's no different than Mayweather willing to fight Canelo and Cotto at 154 but not guys like Lara. In other words, Mayweather would move up for the right kind of fights, otherwise he's staying at 147.

[SplitSecond]

I wonder how many of the GGG stans giving him a pass over this were ****ting on Rigo for asking for one against Loma.

Lol, Rigo and his rehydration clause?

[Cinci Champ]

anyone who didnt already know that ggg team said that to pretend they wanted the fight to get people off their backs is clueless or a fan that wouldnt believe it anyway

[Beater_of_ass]

The difference with the Cotto situation is he is lineal middleweight champion with Golovkin being mandatory to his WBC belt. I've said from the start if Cotto doesn't want to fight the best middleweights, drop the belt. No problem. But he went ahead and defended his belts against Geale and is now again defending those middleweight belts against Canelo. This has created a clusterfuck of a situation at middleweight. Of course the WBC is to blame for this as well, and all sanctioning bodies should be held accountable when crap like this happens.

As far as GGG goes, he's trying to become the lineal champ & unify the titles in his OWN division, which every fighter should want to accomplish, so it's not comparable at all. The only way it would be comparable is if Golovkin won the lineal crown at 168 and refused to fight Ward, which is what Cotto is currently doing.

But Cotto isn't doing that... he's doing what GGG is doing. Highest payday/lowest risk. If you want to justify GGG doing it because he doesn't have a right color of belt, that's your prerogative. They've doing the same **** but at least one guy earned his way up 3 divisions earlier, so cashing out now is okay or at least understandable. GGG wants the superstar treatment doing nothing and you're okay with it because... you think he could be good? So do I, but it needs to be earned.

[vorgaphe]

Cotto moved up 4 weightclasses already, GGG is still in his first one and you're ****ting on Cotto fighting Sergio which was at 159, 5 pounds more... still another pound higher than the CW GGG is calling for.

Where in my post has the Sergio fight been mentioned. I'm ****ting on Cotto for not fighting GGG at all. Which happens to be far worse than a 4lbs catchweight.