Comments Thread For: Golovkin Embraces Debut As Pay-Per-View Headliner

[JakeNDaBox]

As far back as Gennady Golovkin can remember, he always wanted to be a gangster.

OK maybe not, but the unbeaten knockout artist from Kazakhstan continues to strive for superstardom in the United States. Since his HBO debut three years ago, Golovkin has quickly emerged among the network’s biggest draws, to where it’s becoming increasingly more expensive to find other middleweights willing to step to him.

With that comes his first Pay-Per-View headliner, as Golovkin and David Lemieux collide in a middleweight title unification bout October 17 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

“Pay-Per-View to me means reaching the highest level in the sport,” Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) said of his next adventure. [Click Here To Read More]

[goldenbear]

I like GGG but not sold on him.....

I like GGG however fighting undersized MW doesn't impress me and thus far his toughest opponent has been Curtis Stevens another undersized MW....until he beats Andy Lee and Kid Chocolate it's really hard to determine how good he is although I believe he would knock out Andy Lee who has a suspect chin and can be out boxed. Beating Quillen would be making a statement if that fight could happen. Plus not fighting Ward but willing to fight Chavez and Froch at 168 tells me he only wants fights he knows he will definitely win. Not sure he beats Froch so he was willing to take a risk there so have to give points for that.

[DLX]

I like GGG however fighting undersized MW doesn't impress me and thus far his toughest opponent has been Curtis Stevens another undersized MW....until he beats Andy Lee and Kid Chocolate it's really hard to determine how good he is although I believe he would knock out Andy Lee who has a suspect chin and can be out boxed. Beating Quillen would be making a statement if that fight could happen. Plus not fighting Ward but willing to fight Chavez and Froch at 168 tells me he only wants fights he knows he will definitely win. Not sure he beats Froch so he was willing to take a risk there so have to give points for that.

Curtis fought bravely but I have Murray as his toughest opponent. Murray had never been down before and managed to last 11 although being saved by the bell a few times. I agreed with judges and had Lee vs Quillen a draw. I don't see them as statement wins, because he will be favored heavily. Gennady outboxes everyone at 160. I think he is just so much better than everyone there he makes the division look weaker than it is.

[UNBIASED BOXING]

I like GGG however fighting undersized MW doesn't impress me and thus far his toughest opponent has been Curtis Stevens another undersized MW....until he beats Andy Lee and Kid Chocolate it's really hard to determine how good he is although I believe he would knock out Andy Lee who has a suspect chin and can be out boxed. Beating Quillen would be making a statement if that fight could happen. Plus not fighting Ward but willing to fight Chavez and Froch at 168 tells me he only wants fights he knows he will definitely win. Not sure he beats Froch so he was willing to take a risk there so have to give points for that.

Curtis Stevens? Really?

Andy Lee got outboxed by Golovkin twice? as an amateur, already.

Quillen probably will move up/never fight Golovkin anyways.


Winning against Chavez Jr. would have been an okay win.
Winning against Froch would have been amazing.

Not to mention, both are much larger than he is...

[SterlingStained]

GGG is a proper ppv fighter.

master spoilers aka excessive clinching and running passed off as boxing wizardly by ignorant hipster boxng fans dont deserve ppv headlining status.

only star action fighters should be in ppv.

it does a disservice to the overall health of the sport when you put a safety conscious spoiling boxer like floyd as ppv king.

[Barcham]

I like GGG however fighting undersized MW doesn't impress me and thus far his toughest opponent has been Curtis Stevens another undersized MW....until he beats Andy Lee and Kid Chocolate it's really hard to determine how good he is although I believe he would knock out Andy Lee who has a suspect chin and can be out boxed. Beating Quillen would be making a statement if that fight could happen. Plus not fighting Ward but willing to fight Chavez and Froch at 168 tells me he only wants fights he knows he will definitely win. Not sure he beats Froch so he was willing to take a risk there so have to give points for that.

Murray was not undersized. Rubio was not undersized. Lemieux is not undersized. Geale was not undersized. Macklin was not undersized.

You know who is actually an undersized middleweight? GOLOVKIN is an undersized middleweight. He enters the ring weighing less than Canelo, a JrMW!

As for Quillin, GGG would KTFO him in two rounds or less. It would not even be a contest at all.

[SteveM]

As far back as Gennady Golovkin can remember, he always wanted to be a gangster.

OK maybe not, but the unbeaten knockout artist from Kazakhstan continues to strive for superstardom in the United States. Since his HBO debut three years ago, Golovkin has quickly emerged among the network’s biggest draws, to where it’s becoming increasingly more expensive to find other middleweights willing to step to him.

With that comes his first Pay-Per-View headliner, as Golovkin and David Lemieux collide in a middleweight title unification bout October 17 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

“Pay-Per-View to me means reaching the highest level in the sport,” Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) said of his next adventure. [Click Here To Read More]

What?? Did you have a brain fart?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

What?? Did you have a brain fart?

Haha....what the *** was that?

[Giacomo]

???

I like GGG however fighting undersized MW doesn't impress me and thus far his toughest opponent has been Curtis Stevens another undersized MW....until he beats Andy Lee and Kid Chocolate it's really hard to determine how good he is although I believe he would knock out Andy Lee who has a suspect chin and can be out boxed. Beating Quillen would be making a statement if that fight could happen. Plus not fighting Ward but willing to fight Chavez and Froch at 168 tells me he only wants fights he knows he will definitely win. Not sure he beats Froch so he was willing to take a risk there so have to give points for that.

Curtis Stevens is short but definitely not undersized, Stevens came into boxing as a light heavyweight and also fought at super middle, so calling him undersized makes no sense, calling him short yea that's more likely the word you might want to use. Andy lee was beaten by GGG multiple times along with Dirrell in the amateurs, Peter Quillin is frightened of GGG and he's garbage anyways, Quillin vacated his belt because he was scared of Korobov so imagine how scared he is of GGG, quillin just knocked out a guy that he had a 15-20 pound advantage over and a guy that not even diehard boxing fans had heard of, Quillin isnt very good besides he can't make 160 anymore anyways.
The reason Gennadyand his team turned down the Ward offer was because #1 Ward made an offer right after Gennady signed the Lemieux contract and #2 the offer was for both of them to take 2 or 3 fights and for Ward to still get 50/50, basically for Tom Loeffler to accept that he should've been fired immediately, Gennady builds himself into a paper view star by fighting in his first headlined ppview event on Oct 17 vs Lemieux then another sell out VS Andy lee on St Patrick's day At the Garden in New York then fights on Cinco de Mayo weeked Vs Canelo all three on ppview and becomes an enormous ppview Star and still has to give Ward 50%? That would be the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life. Believe me Ward and GGG will fight. Ward needs to work on coming back down to reality and realizing his self worth and start working on growing his own brand. This was a classic attempt where ward was trying to ride GGG's coattails to stardom and he keeps mentioning GGG'S name only to stay relevant.

[JakeNDaBox]

What?? Did you have a brain fart?

I can't possibly be the only one here who has seen GoodFellas?!

It's a play on the opening line, and sounded better than a lede of "... always wanted to be a Pay-Per-View attraction."