If Ward said yes to 164 lbs do you think the fight would happen?

[-PBP-]

No. 164 was offered because they knew there was a 0% chance he would accept it.

It's a brilliant chess move by a savvy businessman to give his groupies some ammunition.

[Deevel916]

As a fan of both fighters, I wouldnt even want to see this fight take place at 164. Even if GGG were to blast him out he'd get no credit.

At this point, Ward/Kovalev looks like the more probable fight as they are only 3lbs away from where they each last fought.

[Eastcoast]

Have you even been following this? Golovkin was calling out Ward but as soon as Ward was free of contract disputes, Ward said he wanted Golovkin and team GGG has had nothing but excuses. Ward has been saying he wants Golovkin now, then Kovalev at 175.

Have you been following this? Golovkin never called out Ward during his litigation, just the opposite. Ward sent the email to HBO to be read after Golovkin's fight where he said "anywhere, anyplace, and anytime", then immediately after his contract dispute ends he says he needs 3 tune-ups and takes the first at 172lbs. What's funnier is Ward wants Golovkin to jump straight to 168, but says he needs a few fights at 175 before Kovalev


If Ward decides to go up to 175, he says a fight with Kovalev is an obvious scenario. It's possible. When I eventually get to 175 and I'm a full-fledged light heavyweight...of course at the right time that's the fight that I want. You can't come to a guy's weight class and at some point in time not want to fight the best in that division, that goes without saying.
http://www.boxingscene.com/andre-war...ibility--92338

[Eastcoast]

Ward is hardly a big name in the sport today. Absolutely no point in the fight until Golovkin is ready to move to 168 permanently.

I doubt Golovkin moves up to 168 beyond an occasional fight if ever. He's filled out and comfortable at 160. His reported rehydration weights have been 168 (Proksa), 170 (Macklin), 173 (Rubio), 170 (Monroe). But most importantly there are bigger future fights at 160lbs than 168lbs. After Lemieux & Lee, there's young talent in Alvarez, Eubank, Magomedov, Khytrov, Derevyanchenko, Murata, Wade, Charlo, J-Rock, and maybe even Spence.

When George Groves sparred with Golovkin last year:
"I think Gennady can lose a bit more weight because he is so comfortable at middleweight. I don't think he's the biggest middleweight out there. He's in shape; he boxes so regularly he is always in shape."
http://www.skysports.com/boxing/news...oyd-mayweather

[kiaba360]

Have you been following this? Golovkin never called out Ward during his litigation, just the opposite. Ward sent the email to HBO to be read after Golovkin's fight where he said "anywhere, anyplace, and anytime", then immediately after his contract dispute ends he says he needs 3 tune-ups and takes the first at 172lbs. What's funnier is Ward wants Golovkin to jump straight to 168, but says he needs a few fights at 175 before Kovalev


If Ward decides to go up to 175, he says a fight with Kovalev is an obvious scenario. It's possible. When I eventually get to 175 and I'm a full-fledged light heavyweight...of course at the right time that's the fight that I want. You can't come to a guy's weight class and at some point in time not want to fight the best in that division, that goes without saying.
http://www.boxingscene.com/andre-war...ibility--92338

Ward counted the proposed match-ups with Froch/Chavez @168 as fights that actually happened lol

[just the facts]

IDK anymore if I want to see Ward. He ust pulled 300k I believe his last fight. That's not enough. He isn't on Gennadys level. Gennady is a PPV star now and needs to fight elite stars not some bums without credentials who fight on BET TV. So nah, he needs to work and step his numbers up for a shot at Gennady.

another ****** post from the king of dumb. PPV star? How many PPVs has ggg headlined? Elite stars? Ward is exactly the type fighters ggg needs to start fighting.

Here's the real deal, when team ggg had the chance to put him in boxings drivers seat (Ward fight), they imposed a catch weight that Ward couldn't possibly make and killed the fight. At 33, ggg has yet to face even one credible opponent. Lemieux is a step up, but not the huge step ggg needs to make. Tic toc.

We all need to put a Ward/ggg fight to rest. If team ggg thought he could beat Ward this fight would have gotten made, problem is they don't believe ggg can beat Ward

[M Bison]

Pity Ward doesn't rate himself as much as people on here do, he had no problem fighting weight drained Chad Dawson but he doesn't want to cut a measly 4lbs, I mean this is suppose to be the second best fighter in the world...
The only thing with it is, Floyd Mayweather has the right to make demands whereas Ward is a nobody and GGG has more pulling power to his name than Ward does
1.3 million >>>> 300k

[JOSH OF LA]

Dawson is the one who wanted the fight and proposed the weight.

[Szef]

No, it wouldn't.

It was smoke and mirrors, they want Cotto/Canelo winner first.

[Jake ChillenYal]

no...fight would not happen...gggs people are afraid of what a loss would do to his "brand"