Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin To Hit New Markets in 2016?

[Progrssive_Jedi]

Team GGG has contract with WBC and Cotto/Canelo

It would be epic.

But I actually think everyone could be looking at that fight the wrong way.

According to the information you provided the other day, if the Cotto/Canelo winner is stripped Golovkin will not have to fight the best contender for the WBC strap, he will be elevated.

Well I think that the WBC will strip Cotto, but not Canelo.

For the fight to be for the WBC strap, Cotto/Canelo had to get a step aside agreement with the WBC.

And WBC has recently said they got insurance from both Cotto and Canelo that they will fight GGG.

WBC isn't playing this time.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-mauricio-sulaiman-wbc-mayweather-boxing-20151016-story.html#

The WBC would risk a serious lawsuit from K2 if they play any of their usual games here.

I believe they will uphold their deal, but hey when it comes to sanctioning bodies (except the IBF), they typically do whatever they feel like doing (which is usually whatever makes them the most money)......

WBC is on a mission. They've made it abundantly clear to both camps what is at stake.

When tickets only cost $16 each, selling 20,000 of them if not that impressive.

Not all tickets were that cheap. Man you guys repeat BS all the time to downplay GGG success.

The tickets we priced $500, $300, $200, $100 and $50.

Now stop repeating Bull****.

[Eff Pandas]

Well I think that the WBC will strip Cotto, but not Canelo.

The clue is in this very article, combined with the fact that the WBC are inconsistent at best.

This article stated that the winner would " risk " being stripped.

I think that if Cotto beats Canelo, and Golovkin refuses to give him a catchweight, then Cotto will be stripped and Golovkin will be elevated.

But if Canelo wins, I think they will petition the WBC to allow him some voluntary defences.....

This would not be crazy.

I think the WBC has shown a lot of favoritism to Chavez in the past & I would not be surprised if he went above & beyond for another popular Mexican fighter. With Canelo doing all these 155 fights & GGG having never fought below 158.5 & seemingly making a lot of noise about no catchweighting I feel like terms could be harder to make then some of us have anticipated with Canelo vs GGG.

And lets not forget Oscar has warned Canelo against a few fights at this point & Canelo vetoed Oscar so far. It wouldn't be shocking to me if he suggested to Canelo now isn't the time to fight GGG & Canelo listened this time since a catchweight might not be doable & perhaps he's not ready for a true MW fight.

[Nomadic]

Canelo and Cotto would be wise to move back down to 154 after their fight in November and vacate all 160 belts. Golovkin should focus on Lee and the Jacobs/Quillin winner.

You don't think that's their plan? GGG is chasing ghost on those matches.

[OnePunch]

When he fights Alvarez, there'll be too much money for it not to happen in Vegas. MGM pays you to fight in their arena and shares ticket revenue with you on top. Compare that to paying to rent out and operate the Alamo Dome or AT&T Stadium.

Potential Golovkin fights-

• vs Lee/Saunders winner - would sell out O2 arena in London w/ 20,000.
• vs T.Johnson in Kazakhstan would sell out the new arena w/ 15,000 or South Korea w/ 13,000.
• vs Murata in Japan w/ Gonzalez on the undercard they'd fill up the Tokyo Dome with 40-50,000.
• vs Korobov or Fedor Chudinov in Russia would be major

I think he has some bitterness over his time in Germany. His tv ratings there are still very strong during their prime-time (2.3mill tuned in for his Murray fight).

I think its unlikely that HBO would be willing to travel to any of those places at this point.

[Bardock]

U would think GGG, fought Mayweather on saturday, knoked him out in the first 5 seconds of round one, with everything his corner and him have been saying, and how he will be reaching this great stardom thanks to beating Lemuix!!
He's good, dont get me wrong, but tone it down a couple notches, hes still to fight anyone with aname, not knocking Lem, btw!

His fans and the medie are crowning him p4p #1 after the Lemieux fight

[MRBOOMER]

Good lord. The hype is really real this time.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

After the ppv numbers come back reality will kick in I streamed that pirlece of **** fight for free with no lag at all it was like I paid for it when a fight is good and ppl don't want to pay and stream it will lag like hell nobody wasn't paying for this bull**** fight

[Bardock]

For the fight to be for the WBC strap, Cotto/Canelo had to get a step aside agreement with the WBC.

And WBC has recently said they got insurance from both Cotto and Canelo that they will fight GGG.

WBC isn't playing this time.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-mauricio-sulaiman-wbc-mayweather-boxing-20151016-story.html#

WBC is on a mission. They've made it abundantly clear to both camps what is at stake.



Not all tickets were that cheap. Man you guys repeat BS all the time to downplay GGG success.

The tickets we priced $500, $300, $200, $100 and $50.

Now stop repeating Bull****.

You finally changed your ****** fanboy sig. Cong****.

[aboutfkntime]

The WBC would risk a serious lawsuit from K2 if they play any of their usual games here.

I believe they will uphold their deal, but hey when it comes to sanctioning bodies (except the IBF), they typically do whatever they feel like doing (which is usually whatever makes them the most money)......

Good point, all eyes are on the Cotto/Canelo fight I suppose.

[aboutfkntime]

One thing I think we all have missed is if canelo beats cotto....who besides golovkin can bring high PPV numbers if canelo is the belt holder..there ain't that many high profile fights for him as well..you may think it's strange but they might be able to get 1 fight before its golovkin and it might be lemeuix who will be the tune up for canelo before he has to face golovkin....there both golden boy fighters so stranger things have happened....but if the WBC are good to there word then canelo or cotto must face golovkin next....if I was golovkn I would take a voluntary early next year....let canelo have one as well...and then the big one next summer in May

I could accept that.

Golovkin would be showing Canelo the same respect he demanded from Ward.

Its good when boxing is the winner.

Much better than refusing a cw for 153lb Cotto, knowing he will stripped.