Quillin-Jacobs, a fight between two Brooklyn-based middleweights rated in the top 10 at Brooklyn's prime venue IS a big fight; I don't talk about the gate for that event because, frankly, I don't care what the gate is.
Golovkin gets held to a different standard because his camp has regularly sold him as far more then he's actually proven himself to be. Golovkin walking out on fighting Andre Ward, or viewing a fighter like Erislandy Lara as simply being beneath him, while fighting soft competition, would inherently mean that the business that Golovkin does is so massive that he can justify the prima donna nonsense.
People are on here, talking massive ****, about Golovkin selling 5k tickets; note that Floyd Mayweather did $20m in ticket sales in less than 36 hours, and Cotto-Margarito II put nearly 24k people into MSG.
For someone you seem to insist on as being the next "that dude", it's going to take more than selling 5k tickets, in a market that you've already fought in five times, four times at that very same venue, to get me excited.
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