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

[aboutfkntime]

Right, beat me to it.

Either way, the dip**** totally missed the point. The point was, neither guy was a crossover star. So they made the fight, did their 300K PPV buys, and went on with theur careers.

My main point is that Ward nor GGG is in s position to take on this A-side, bend to my demands nonsense. GGG is more popular among the hardcore fan base. But, the mass majority of his fan base are hardcore fight fans, who are gonna order any big time match-up. So the notion that Ward isn't a draw is irrelevant. Because GGG has no casual fan base to appeal to amyway.

Thats the real point.

There are only a small handful of fighters who are in a position to pull that A-side/B-side rubbish.

Golovkin is not one of them, they need to find another excuse.

[Eastcoast]

GGG is a star in within the hardcore fight community homie. When 90%+ of your fan base are hardcore fight fans. Which means the same people that are watching him fight bums are gonna wanna watch him fight Ward, plus some.

Dude, get with it. Golovkin's drawing fans to travel across the country to see his fights, more and more every time. His fights are televised in countries all over the world. He had over 6 million viewers in Mexico, over 2 mill in Germany, 800k in the UK, and allegedly over 10 mill in Russia for his fight with Murray and that doesn't count his tv deals with Poland and eastern Europe, south America, and Khazakstan. He's got a little more than hardcore fans watching him, where Mr. 320k on BET doesn't even have that.

[Vasyl’s dad]

Thats the real point.

There are only a small handful of fighters who are in a position to pull that A-side/B-side rubbish.

Golovkin is not one of them, they need to find another excuse.

Golovkin has a PPV coming up. Ward, looking for some dishwasher to fight in oakland.

Its more than clear that GGG is the a side, by a wide margin. I can't imagine GGG getting a fight in an 10,000+ seat arena, and getting less than 5,000 seats filled. Just not gonna happen.

[Eastcoast]

Thats the real point.

There are only a small handful of fighters who are in a position to pull that A-side/B-side rubbish.

Golovkin is not one of them, they need to find another excuse.

So let Ward go his own way then and see what he has. BET & undercards, but he's an A-side though...... SOG's boring ass can stay irrelevant because if can't get Golovkin he's still not moving up.

[rajaomair]

Ward should listen to Tom and start unifying.

[Vasyl’s dad]

*"we sold out madison square garden!"

*hundreds of seats still available

Only tickets left are the 62 dollar joints.

[Barcham]

This promoter chats ****

all the other belt holders wont fight ward

And you know this for a fact? You have proof that fights have been proposed by Roc Nation and refused by the other title holders?

OK. Let's see it.

[carloscruz10009]

154-168 tho

[T18Z]

You and every other person that pretends Ward is irrelevant and no one wants to watch him need to stop fooling yourselves. It's seriously desperate, like you are all want him to go away so badly that you are going to keep repeating how irrelevant he is in hopes it comes true.

What is this pretending? His last opponents are Rodriguez and Paul Smith, the guy has done nothing of note that benefits his career or stature in years. He's been riding the super six for how long now?

When people are saying he can't even get more than 100 people to his free autographs in his hometown on twitter, how is that pretending? When people are saying his tickets are being given away to his fights, how is that pretending? When he's fighting on BET with 325k viewers, how is that pretending? When he's trying to demand PPV money from fighting on the Canelo vs Cotto undercard, how is that pretending?

When it comes to Ward you're just an ass-licker. It mostly comes from your dislike of Abel. Ward has done nothing but give a textbook example of how to throw away a career, but you'll keep ignoring any wrongdoing on his part while beliving Ward isnt the B-side and deserves 50-50 with no concessions.

[hitking]

You totally avoided anything I brought up, figures. Jones took what he thought was easy money. Toney was at the stage where he couldn't make the weight anymore and so cashed out. Stop revising history to fit your Andre Ward pandering. Jones had no issue avoiding all those other guys in his divisions. And Hopkins had no interest in meeting Jones at the 168 cw for their missed super fight.

And you're as delusional as Ward if you don't see an A-side/B-side to Ward/Golvokin. Even if things were equal in their drawing power, Golovkin is the guy who has to move up to Ward's division - that's called leverage my man, understand it. Golovkin isn't giving up that advantage to Ward without some compesation meaning big pay day. It's the same reason Ward's not jumping up to fight Kovalev until he's a 'filled-out' LHW. But things aren't equal and Golovkin has options and Ward doesn't. So Ward needs to do something other than pout.

I didn't avoid anything. Its irrelevant to the conversation. But since you wanna go there. Roy wasn't in a position to dictate anything, and neither was Toney. Roy didn't wait out anything. He fought Toney no more than a couple years after Toney left middleweight. MIDDLEWEIGHT!!!!!! Its not Roy's fault Toney was lazy and ballooned up to 200lbs between fights and struggled to make 168.

As for the A-side/B-side. When the "A-side's" core fan base are hardcore fight fans. There's really not a lotta relevancy to the position. The same people that are willing to order GGG-Lemieux are willing to order Ward-GGG. Ward nor Lemieux bring in many non-fight fans. And the truth of the matter is. Thr percentage of hardcore fight fans that aren't GGG fans that aren't gonna order the Lemieux fight would definitely order the Ward fight. Because its a fight fans fight. So any notion that fighting Lemieux is more profitable than fighting Ward is pure nonsense. And just about as delusional as GGG's fans that think he's a crossover star.