Golovkin's closing window of opportunity

[Kenchiro]

4 nobodies per year (actually, if you look at his record, it's not even close to averaging that).
That's like the fat chick that "works out every day" by walking on the treadmill for 15min. No one is impressed.
Maybe he'll take a real fight one day, something people will actually remember. Not holding my breath.

So if ggg is fighting cans....then who should he fight at mw that r not cans?

[BostonGuy]

Any updates on Golovkin? Have his team mapped out 2016 yet? Who's he gonna face? Lara, Canelo, Jacobs, Lee, Eubank??

[OnePunch]

Any updates on Golovkin? Have his team mapped out 2016 yet? Who's he gonna face? Lara, Canelo, Jacobs, Lee, Eubank??

hopefully his 2016 consists of: (in any order)

Canelo for WBC belt
Johnson for ibf mando
Lee/saunders winner for WBO belt

[IFightDirty]

Well-put. I think Sergio was FAR more ballsy and ambitious

Agreed.

[IFightDirty]

4 nobodies per year (actually, if you look at his record, it's not even close to averaging that).
That's like the fat chick that "works out every day" by walking on the treadmill for 15min. No one is impressed.
Maybe he'll take a real fight one day, something people will actually remember. Not holding my breath.

Redd Foxx with the truth bombs. Green K bruva

[soul_survivor]

Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, born 8 April 1982.

34-years-old in May for a potential Canelo clash, dude is past his prime.

Oscar De La Hoya was 34 when he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr

Kelly Pavlik is GGG's age, born April 1982.

Anyone see GGG staying elite at an advanced age à la Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather Jr?

he hasn't really had a tough, hard, career full of ring wars so I'm sure he can carry on. GGG will get a big fight at some stage, likely another unification and then he'll hold all the belts at 160, others will have to fight him.

[boliodogs]

He got off to a late start as a pro and he can't change that. He is fighting the best guys his weight who aren't afraid to fight him. What else can he do? Prime for a boxer is age 25 to 29 so yeah he is past prime. He is still a god damn monster in the ring and he trains hard and stays in the best possible condition. He looked razor sharp destroying fellow champion Lemieux. I think he can continue to rule and terrorize the middleweight division for a few more years. There is nothing he can do to speed up his career that he isn't already doing. That's up to the other 160 pound champions who should fight him but don't want to. Canelo should fight him in May at 160 pounds but he probably will fight another good fighter instead. Canelo vs GGG at 160 should happen next. No marinating is needed or required.

[-MEGA-]

He tried to get out of the contract with Universe, his promoter at the time.

Sounds familliar?

EDIT: And he didn't have Showtime and Super Six to do all the matchmaking for him, like some other fighter we know.

You guys keep talking talking **** about Golovkin and yet you don't **** about him and his pre HBO career...

NSB DKSAG

Dude, hes been on HBO for like 3-4 years now. Probably like 10-12 fights. He could have done much more in that time. That is indesputible.

[Szef]

Dude, hes been on HBO for like 3-4 years now. Probably like 10-12 fights. He could have done much more in that time. That is indesputible.

Really? Who could've he fought then?

[Redd Foxx]

So if ggg is fighting cans....then who should he fight at mw that r not cans?

Lara will fight him at MW. Otherwise, MW is horrible right now. If he wants challenges he needs to go a few lbs up or down. Fighters have done this for decades. As I said though, he has no ambition. If he wants to stay at MW, fine, but he'll have no legacy because the division is thin and it's unlikely to change before he gets old (which is only a couple years away).
It's not bashing, it's just the hard reality of the situation.