Will GGG Make You Fall in Love With Boxing Again ?

[Barcham]

After being a tremendous fan of the sport growing up and well into my 40s, I grew very disenchanted with boxing when Mayweather became the face of the sport and did not pay hardly any attention to boxing for a number of years. And then one day I heard of a fighter named GGG and decided to check him out.

To say I was pleasantly surprised would be an understatement. Golovkin singlehandedly brought me back to being a fan of boxing again and he has never disappointed me or let me down since. He is everything the sport has been lacking and everything the sport needs to get back in the eyes of the regular media.

So the poll is pointless for me to answer because while GGG made me fall in the love with boxing again, he did it four years ago!

[Drunken Cat]

Never fell out of love with it, he's one among a bunch of others that I like.

[SlySlickSmooth]

Nah, the one who really did it for me was Gary Russell Jr.!

[Drunken Cat]

If I'm introducing a new fan to boxing I will admit a GGG fight would surly provide the entertainment yo get them hooked .

I have absolute faith that GGG wins, this is a pushover fight. Lemeiux is a legit challenger, but also very ordinary. Just ask the bookies, or watch him fight.

But, I remember when Klitschko fought Sanders.

I was somewhere else watching the fight, but my friend who I usually watched boxing with was watching it at another party with a bunch of people that didn't know boxing much.

He told me afterward, that he spent like an hour just totally hyping up Wladimer and saying he was the he was the absolute man and the next top dog at heavyweight, and just hyping the hell out of him (he was of course on the drink, surely).

Then this happened.



I guess my friend was right about Wladimer in the long run, but he was goddamn embarrassed by this, lol.

[HeroBando]

That is pathetic to even bring up him trying to go after Froch when he was semi-retired and saying he doesn't think he has it in him anymore. Genady was trying to pick Carl's bones. Nothing brave or admirable about that.

They were after Froch since last summer, dumb ****. Froch was not retired, was coming off his grandest win yet. A runaway #1 SMW, p4p rated everywhere. Try again

[M Bison]

I have absolute faith that GGG wins, this is a pushover fight. Lemeiux is a legit challenger, but also very ordinary. Just ask the bookies, or watch him fight.

But, I remember when Klitschko fought Sanders.

I was somewhere else watching the fight, but my friend who I usually watched boxing with was watching it at another party with a bunch of people that didn't know boxing much.

He told me afterward, that he spent like an hour just totally hyping up Wladimer and saying he was the he was the absolute man and the next top dog at heavyweight, and just hyping the hell out of him (he was of course on the drink, surely).

Then this happened.



I guess my friend was right about Wladimer in the long run, but he was goddamn embarrassed by this, lol.

Embarrassed by what, getting KOed by a heavyweight?
Lennox Lewis, Joe Louis, Evander Holyfield, Ken Norton and many others have all been KOed by lesser opposition, it happens and it doesn't matter who hands you that KO loss because in the end of the day it only takes one punch in that division.

[Drunken Cat]

Embarrassed by what, getting KOed by a heavyweight?
Lennox Lewis, Joe Louis, Evander Holyfield, Ken Norton and many others have all been KOed by lesser opposition, it happens and it doesn't matter who hands you that KO loss because in the end of the day it only takes one punch in that division.

No, my friend hyped Wladimer for an hour to a bunch of partygoers who didn't know much about boxing, and then Wladimer got completely iced out.

My friend was the one embarrassed.

I just didn't want the guy to jinx GGG like my friend jinxed Wlad.

[Redd Foxx]

They were after Froch since last summer, dumb ****. Froch was not retired, was coming off his grandest win yet. A runaway #1 SMW, p4p rated everywhere. Try again

Don't get yourself all worked up, sweetheart. You guys trying to give Golovkin credit for all the fights he " would have" fought are sad. He never pursued Froch when he was active, only when he was contemplating retirement. Not unlike when he called out Ward when he was in a contract dispute, then ran when Ward sent him a contract to sign. FYI; he never beat Froch! You have to come to terms with that and the fact that he never tried to book a fight withhim while he was active.

I know you have time to bicker about this all day but I don't so have fun.

[Merciless1]

There's not one single fighter past or present that will ever change my love for this sport.

[Eff Pandas]

i don't think there is any debating GGG has some very Manny-like qualities that could bring some new fans to boxing or rekindle some fans affections.

I wasn't on board with GGG being such a figure til maybe the last 4 or 5 months when I've heard some non-boxing fans bring his name up seemingly at random. Normally when a boxers name gets brought up its someone dead, retired or one of 4 or 5 active 100% mainstream name guys so GGG's name came as a surprise to me & kinda got me thinking maybe I'm too close to the situation to realize the impact GGG has made that other guys didn't or haven't yet.