Comments Thread For: Team GGG: Ward Not The A-Side, Can't Dictate Terms

[Scipio2009]

With GGG headlining a PPV & Ward on the undercard of a PPV I think GGG's team is more right than wrong with that remark rn. If GGG gets enough PPV buys its gonna be a without question fact that GGG is the A side. And I was saying Ward was the A side not that long ago, but **** can change quick in boxing.

Ward is damn near like a boxer of the past with his lack of doing anything meaningful in so long. I think you can have a more impressive resume & thats part of it, but there is a Janet Jackson what have you done for me lately angle to it too & so far Ward is just fighting guys beneath him after his long hiatus & GGG is headlining PPV's vs other title holders.

Golovkin-Lemieux is openly talked of as expecting to do 200k-300k PPV buys; Cotto-Canelo is supposed to do +750k PPV buys (whether Ward is on the card is the difference between me buying the PPV and hosting a party or simply heading to a bar to watch for $20 plus drinks).

Still, until the PPV actually gets aired, all this talk of "Golovkin is the A-side" is quite premature, made more obvious by Loeffler insinuating a 50/50 split in the Rafael hypothetical.

Ward had a fight in June, is apparently being positioned for a fight in November, and will likely be fighting again early 2016. Ward's getting active again, and the media outlets are getting used to seeing his face, acknowledging his ability throughout.

[GMAN SUPREME]

How is Ward not the A side when;

- He's actually the REAL champion in his division
- He makes more money than Bumlovkin
- He has the much better resume

golovkin destroys ward in the ratings and popularity you ***ing moron that's what makes golovkin the A side.ward had trouble getting fights on tv and has to resort to fighting on bet and no one gave a ****.its not that complicated you airhead.

[TyrantT316]

I have no problem with GGG himself as a fighter. Just the fans who believe he is somehow this revolutionary exception to the rule of "picking an choosing" and a guy who fights "everybody" and "doesn't care about the money". etc.

He's making the same "business" decisions as Mayweather or anyone else. He's calling himself the A-Side because he feels entitled and is falling in low with his hype. He's good, exciting and powerful. However, he's in need of a signature win to truly cement himself as a top fighter people can believe in. Ward is in need of a reminder signature win. A reminder of who he is and why he has been a top P4P fighter.

They need each other and at least one of them needs to do whatever is possible to make the fight happen to prove their point.

[hitking]

is it how you respond when somobody tells the truth and you like it ?

Your "truth" is alarmingly ******.

[carloscruz10009]

Fight Ward where he was gonna fight Froch or Chavez Jr. Problem solved.

I will not fight Ward at 168 pounds...... 154-164 tho...

[Scipio2009]

Their 50/50 offer was more than generous. Ward can't sell out his basement.

He hasn't beaten anyone of note in 3 years. And will most likely fight another bum but this time on an undercard. Because they lose money on him as a main attraction. So while his resume looks good 4 years ago, he can no way be called the A side, it's just delusional.

Ward put over 11k people into Oracle for the Kessler fight, over 11k people into Oracle for the Dawson fight, and put near 10k people into Oracle for the Paul Smith fight; the Dawson gate was confirmed as having brought in over $700k at the gate.

Why keep shilling nonsense that you know not to be true?

[bigjavi973]

Certainly not how it happened. With Hopkins they clearly respectfully denied his offer of a fight (why in the world would they want to fight Hopkins at 168 right now?). Leoffler was being respectful to Hopkins in the interview basically saying "we're not interested in Hopkins, perhaps some other time who knows".

People are reaching HARD with the Al Haymon Lara talk, as if the 154 pounder is even remotely a threat to Golovkin. The only legit talk here is with Ward, who is a weight class above Golovkin and it's clear K2 aren't interested in Ward this moment when they are mandatory to Cotto/Canelo winner.

What we do know is that the lineal middleweight champ decided to fight Daniel Geale instead of #1 challanger and mandatory in Golovkin, so there is that of course.

Perhaps some other time? Hopkins isn't gonna get any younger.

Lara??? GGG's team said no to the lara fight and fought monroe cuz "hes more known"



Yes Cotto fought Geale as a voluntary defense. I did have issue with Canelo getting the fight before GGG, but GGG accepted the step aside money so they can't complain about that situation no more.

[Nay_Sayer]

golovkin destroys ward in the ratings

Really? What ratings exactly?

ward had trouble getting fights on tv and has to resort to fighting on bet and no one gave a ****.its not that complicated you airhead.

Ward has no trouble cashing bigger pay checks than the Triple Duck. Care to explain WHY?

[bigjavi973]

Hey, @Pacman453323 , remember when Ward said he***39;d go to 160 for Mayweather? http://t.co/GAmref37op Yeah, how ironic in many ways #boxing

— Steve Kim (@steveucnlive) August 20, 2015

GGG and his team need to now dictate a 162 pound catch-weight for Ward because, well... they can... #boxing

— Steve Kim (@steveucnlive) August 20, 2015

this joker has to have an account here... just mirror image of those comments here

[damian War]

ggg at this point is basically jeff lacy 2.0 .. all this hype and no resume to back it up.. i remember when lacy was "the new tyson".