August 14th 2010 Gennady Golovkin vs Milton Nunez

[daggum]

GGG has been pro 9 years man and is now just fighting his 1st current champion

after floyd was pro for 9 years he was in his 3rd division and was a 3 time world champion and a 2 time lineal champion

GGG is 33 when Floyd was 33 he was a 6 time champion in 5 divisions and a 3 time lineal champion


**** outta here Floyd did not need a catchweight to move up in his 1st division to fight the lineal champion..but GGG needs one for Ward?

floyd turned pro at age 19 at 130. floyd has moved up 4 divisions in that span

if ggg turned pro at age 19 he would have turned pro at 140. ggg has moved up 4 divisions in that same time span.

what a difference!

to pretend that moving up divisions when someone is fully grown is the same thing as a young man in their 20's moving up divisions is very disingenuous.

also floyd needed a catchweight for the lineal title vs canelo but not others. same thing you just criticized ggg for lol. do you even pay attention to what you say?

[Eastcoast]

GGG has been pro 9 years man and is now just fighting his 1st current champion

after floyd was pro for 9 years he was in his 3rd division and was a 3 time world champion and a 2 time lineal champion

GGG is 33 when Floyd was 33 he was a 6 time champion in 5 divisions and a 3 time lineal champion


**** outta here Floyd did not need a catchweight to move up in his 1st division to fight the lineal champion..but GGG needs one for Ward?

Let's not pretend Floyd didn't outgrow 130lbs. At 33 years old, Floyd wouldn't be physically capable of making his first 3 divisions. Also HBO forced Floyd to fight Castillo in his first fight at 135lbs. In fact HBO had alot problems with getting Floyd to agree to a tough fight.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2002-01-18-mayweather-hbo.htm

Golovkin has options, if Ward wants to fight Golovkin instead of Kovalev so bad he needs to learn from Bernard Hopkins. When Hopkins wanted to fight Dela Hoya, he offered to fight at a catch weight of 157 and ended up coming down to 156. Hopkins came down to 157 for Trinidad.

[HeroBando]

GGG has been pro 9 years man and is now just fighting his 1st current champion

after floyd was pro for 9 years he was in his 3rd division and was a 3 time world champion and a 2 time lineal champion

GGG is 33 when Floyd was 33 he was a 6 time champion in 5 divisions and a 3 time lineal champion


**** outta here Floyd did not need a catchweight to move up in his 1st division to fight the lineal champion..but GGG needs one for Ward?

As you can see from this thread he was poorly promoted, cause stablemates Sturm (and Zbik) were more marketable in Germany. When is the last time Floyd had to fight in Panama for peanuts?

Also, when is the last time Floyd moved up for a fighter of Ward's quality? How about a guy of Ward quality thats less marketable but wants purse parity?

[soul_survivor]

Anniversary of the greatest fight!

[Fists_of_Fury]

I have not nor never will deepthroat any sexual male reproductive organ.

What if it were Tom Brady's male sexual reproductive organ, pulled freshly from Gisele's female sexual reproductive organ, and he was paying you $10,000,000, fam? You wouldn't even have to swallow, fam. You would have to take it to the bag though, fam.

[Szef]

There are obviously a lot of circumstances that has lead to Golovkins average resume, you've seen the list of guys who decided not to fight Golovkin. I don't think that poster was in any means comparing the resumes rather the fighting styles (thus his "boring" comment). Obviously what one finds entertaining will vary from person to person, that goes without saying.

I think what he and many others are excited about regarding Gennady has to do with his entertaining style of skillful offensive fighting and high KO percentage. It is at no fault of his own that his resume isn't better being that Lemieux is quite literally the first middleweight title holder willing to unify with him.

The Universum feud is the biggest reason of why Golovkin's real career so late.

[-PBP-]

1. OP is entertaining as hell

2. Which Gullible Gennady Groupie name dropped Floyd and high jacked this thread with his inferiority complex?

3. OP is hilarious

4. I learned a lot on the first page. Thanks to everyone that contributed.

[i'm a fun haver]

People who **** on Golovkin's resume, including me, should really put an asterisk next to his ****ty resume.

Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam
Anthony Mundine
Felix Sturm
Miguel Cotto
Peter Quillin
Sebastian Zbik
Darren Barker
Sergio Gabriel Martinez
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
Dmitry Pirog (career ending injury prevented GGG vs Pirog)
Carl Froch

These guys had the opportunity to fight GGG.

Fans and networks get ****ted on by the idiots for "all duh hype" surrounding GGG but these fighters are more to blame than anyone.
All they had to do was step up. Self preservation can be a real mother****er sometimes lol

[Robbie Barrett]

The most remarkable thing about this fight was that Golovkin was in the middle of arbitration with Universum. Rather than sitout and cry like many fighters do today, he formed his own promotional company and got sponsorships to setup the fight in Panama.


Max Herrmann:
In parallel with the trial ran together the threads of the sporting career planning with me. The financing of the next battles was the main problem. Everything aimed at a world title chance against the then WBA world champion Felix Sturm. In order not to lose its status as mandatory challenger storm, Max sat with the WBA -Führung in Panama in connection. After tough negotiations, the World Association Gennadys accepted separation from the powerful promoter Universum and support us in organizing the next fights.

We knew that Felix Sturm would never rise against Gennady voluntarily in the ring. It went so far that Felix Sturm is said to have signed an affidavit that he will not fight against Gennady. At the latest at this point we realized that storm seriously was afraid and would really do anything to us to go out of the way.

With Felix Storm appointment as WBA -Superchampion fighting Gennady moved into the distant future. Fortunately, he was also given the opportunity to the interim title of WBA boxing. We wanted to organize a fight in Australia against Anthony Mundine, but could we not agree with the Australians, so that the fight in the Purse Bid was auctioned. Although we won the auction, but Mundine said the fight off anyway. Negotiations with other boxers from the rankings went bad. No matter whom we contacted, it rained cancellations. Only Milton Nunez from Colombia signed a fight contract for August 14, 2010 in the Arena Roberto Duran in Panama City.

In parallel to the negotiations, we were looking desperately for a sponsor who funded the fight against Nunez. After the Olympic Games Gennady was offered a perspective only abroad, now just help came from his native Kazakhstan. The TAK Sports Group, which also supports the professional cyclist Alexander Vinokourov, organized a sponsorship deal that allowed the awaited world title fight. Without this help, our path would have been finished so close to our goal.

We flew to Panama City at the time, in a country where we've never been. I must say that I have presented it to me much worse. Upon arrival we all quickly felt very comfortable. The Promoter, Mr. Espino, and the people of the WBA have received us very well and given a good feeling. The biggest problem was to ensure the live broadcast of the show from Panama City to Russia and Kazakhstan.

The signal had two satellite to Kazakhstan are conducted, which repeatedly led to technical difficulties. After many phone calls and various meetings with the TV station on site we were able to solve the problem at the last minute and secure the transmission to Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan. That was our priority number one, in order not to lose face in front of our sponsor.

I have visited many boxing events in Germany, but what we have seen in the Roberto Duran Arena, was something new and very special for us all. My first impression was that we moved into a gladiatorial arena. The hall was made round and especially for those rallies. One noticed immediately the unique atmosphere and the enthusiasm of the people for this sport. It was phenomenal. When we were in the cab and Gennady (Battle Name: GGG) was preparing for the fight, we heard through the walls, as the audience cheered his stars in the arena. I had the feeling that the walls shook, and got goose bumps.

Then I looked at Gennady, who was as loose as ever and fully focused warmed for his fight. In that moment I knew, GGG will end this fight quickly and secure the championship belt. So it was, after only 58 seconds of the fight was over. Gennady has really not much time left and implemented what he had for months in Big Bear, California training with trainer Abel Sanchez. It was the first success of our team after the separation of the universe and a super performance of Gennady.



http://www.boxen-heute.de/artikel/62...perboxers.html

The most remarkable thing is that there's a thread about it.

[ИATAS]

Let's not pretend Floyd didn't outgrow 130lbs. At 33 years old, Floyd wouldn't be physically capable of making his first 3 divisions. Also HBO forced Floyd to fight Castillo in his first fight at 135lbs. In fact HBO had alot problems with getting Floyd to agree to a tough fight.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2002-01-18-mayweather-hbo.htm

Golovkin has options, if Ward wants to fight Golovkin instead of Kovalev so bad he needs to learn from Bernard Hopkins. When Hopkins wanted to fight Dela Hoya, he offered to fight at a catch weight of 157 and ended up coming down to 156. Hopkins came down to 157 for Trinidad.

That's funny, I have long forgot about a potential Mayweather vs Stevie Johnston fight:

HBO was fine with that but took exception to the offer of faded ex-featherweight champ Alejandro Gonzalez and rejected him.

HBO and Mayweather promoter Bob Arum prefer that he take a higher-profile, more competitive fight, ideally vs. former two-time champ Stevie Johnston. But Mayweather and his manager, James Prince, have balked.

"No one can communicate with Floyd," Arum said. "It's like talking to the wall. I said 'Fight Stevie Johnston.' Floyd said, 'I don't want to fight him. He's a bum.' "

Arum said it was "likely" HBO would simply bench Mayweather and give his date away instead of arguing over opponents. "They're not going to put up with this much longer," he said.

Johnston certainly would like to fight Mayweather. "I already talked to Stevie about it, and he's ready to go," manager Cameron Dunkin said. "I'd get him a fight right away to get him warmed up, but I don't think Floyd wants to fight Stevie. James Prince and I spoke, and he told me that was the fight they didn't want."