Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter: Ward Should Unify, Stop Obsessing!

[BazookaGomez]

Look at those two spastics in the first page. Loeffler put the stamp on the issue, there's no more need for it to be talked about.

[Barcham]

What I dont understand is why would they try and talk trash about Ward obsessing when they are putting all their cards on two guys that will not fight GGG for years if ever?

Oscar aint letting Canelo anywhere near GGG, and Cotto isn't touching him. So after he beats the french man than whos next? Lee? Thats it, thats all he has. Then he is right back at square one.

Meanwhile Ward has proven elite boxers in Degeale and Jack in his division that he can make fights with, beat them both and end up right back at the top of the p4p list. This would take any bargaining power that GGG had. Not to mention Chavez pretty much being a super middle, it is becoming a money division. GGG should bite on this Ward fight while he holds the chips because his time is slipping fast.

Like many here, you simply are not very bright. What Golovkin wants is the WBC title. He doesn't care if he fights Cotto or Canelo for it or if they chicken out and vacate the title which puts it around his waist just the same. The goal is to unify all the middleweight titles. Once this is done, he becomes the man at MW and anyone who wants a lucrative title fight will have to face him in the ring.

From there, he has the choice to move up to SMW and take on any of the champions there with no trouble at all. If someone can manage to unify the titles at SMW in the meantime, that would be a massive PPV event. Once GGG unifies the MW titles, he will be able to get any fight he could want.

And what the hell are you bringing Chavez into the discussion for? He is totally irrelevant and holds no title and is not likely to be holding one anytime soon.

[DLX]

The article says they're about 400 seats available. Either way. I was at Wilder-Molina, which was sold out in a similar sized arena, with similar ticket prices. And I'm just assuming the average income in NYC is a little bit higher than in Alabama. Not to mention the differences in population. So how big a deal is it?

400 $50 tickets available with still a month to go. It will sell out. If there are 300 seats available the night of the fight it will sell out from walk ups alone. It's right by Time Square! Tourists in town will walk up and pay $50 to see a title fight just for the experience regardless of being a fan or not.

Name another fighter not named Cotto or Klitcho that has sold out the Garden recently. GGG has just broke into that tier of popularity and has only been on HBO for 3 years! How can people not see this rise as different? I'm from Jersey and I'm not familiar with Alabama but the Garden can hold about 20 thousand people. And for a sport that isn't mainstream in this country that's an achievement.

[DLX]

The article says they're about 400 seats available. Either way. I was at Wilder-Molina, which was sold out in a similar sized arena, with similar ticket prices. And I'm just assuming the average income in NYC is a little bit higher than in Alabama. Not to mention the differences in population. So how big a deal is it?

And btw Bartowe arena in alabama says it only holds 8 thousand people. Thats about ten thousand less for basketball, 12 less for boxing in MSG.

[NEETzsche]

degale and jack are with haymon so presumably off-limits to ward, and no one wants to see an abraham rematch. tricky situation for ward. maybe hbo could apply some pressure to arum and get zurdo for him, but apart from that it's slim pickings. not really any exciting 168 lbs prospects that i can think of either (unlike middleweight, which is full of them)

[Progrssive_Jedi]

What I dont understand is why would they try and talk trash about Ward obsessing when they are putting all their cards on two guys that will not fight GGG for years if ever?

Oscar aint letting Canelo anywhere near GGG, and Cotto isn't touching him. So after he beats the french man than whos next? Lee? Thats it, thats all he has. Then he is right back at square one.

Meanwhile Ward has proven elite boxers in Degeale and Jack in his division that he can make fights with, beat them both and end up right back at the top of the p4p list. This would take any bargaining power that GGG had. Not to mention Chavez pretty much being a super middle, it is becoming a money division. GGG should bite on this Ward fight while he holds the chips because his time is slipping fast.

Even if they duck GGG, he'll be getting the belt, or a shot at fighting for the belt, and then the Lee bout is much bigger because it is a MW unification for all the important belts.

And none of that changes one simple thing, Ward brings nothing to the table in terms of earning power. He brings an extra 15-20 pounds, and the ability to clinch all night.

To take a fight like that, put on the extra weight, GGG should do it when Ward has so earning power to bring with him, not when he is begging for a fight because GGG has leaped over him in terms of popularity.

Bro, It's 2015 man. I don't care about pre fall of Andre Ward. You are bringing up the Dawson fight of 2011? And his first comeback fight? Come on man stop reaching...

You are talking about a guy that works for HBO and they wouldn't put on his last fight because he refuses to fight anyone decent...

Right, Ward (or his fans) have not noticed he has fallen off.

I find it hilarious that a guy with NOOOOO significant wins thinks he can dictate terms to one of the best boxers on the planet with a resume much deeper than his ..Must be a bizarro world I'm on !

You can when you are the bigger name, the bigger draw, and you are the one that the other fighter keeps begging to fight him.

If Ward is A-side, he should have no issues selling out. But he does, he can't give away tickets in his own state.

If Ward was so popular, and such a big name, then he wouldn't be looking like the current addition to Khan, begging Mayweather for a fight (or the ultimate clinch fest).

Way to keep it 100% real with this post!

Hardly.

The article says they're about 400 seats available. Either way. I was at Wilder-Molina, which was sold out in a similar sized arena, with similar ticket prices. And I'm just assuming the average income in NYC is a little bit higher than in Alabama. Not to mention the differences in population. So how big a deal is it?

Am I right, you are comparing a similar sized arena in Alabama to MSG. You must be flexible, because that was quite a stretch.

[bigjavi973]

Wasn't the Ward interview taken around the time the floyd fight happened?

They asked him a question & he answered it.

"He keeps talking about us!"

[bigjavi973]

*"we sold out madison square garden!"

*hundreds of seats still available

[-PBP-]

degale and jack are with haymon so presumably off-limits to ward, and no one wants to see an abraham rematch. tricky situation for ward. maybe hbo could apply some pressure to arum and get zurdo for him, but apart from that it's slim pickings. not really any exciting 168 lbs prospects that i can think of either (unlike middleweight, which is full of them)

His best move is 175 but by moving up he's leaving money on the table with a potential GGG pay per view fight.

[Jc8804]

Andre Ward might have the worst advisers in boxing giving the dimwitted Ward terrible career advice which has cost Ward around $10 million so far by inept management and inactivity. Little g obvioulsy has a plan beat lemieux in a HBO PPV then challenge the Canelo-Cotto winner then unify the 160lb middleweight belts. Ward has no place in little g's career for the next few years. Typical Ward playing the moron again with his ****** advisers and clown management. kids like Ward are being misplayed and confused getting bad career advice costing them millions. Ward needs a white manager with a brain to help him. Good for little g having a career plan that is so solid and wise. See the difference in the two men?? it's so obvious what good management does for fighter with a future. little g going going gone.

Funny thing is .ward is white like his dad. His whole team sucks. Top to bottom .I'll bet BET viewers didn't know ward is white.