Comments Thread For: Golovkin vs. Saunders Negotiations To Move Forward

[Alpha & Omega]

Sanders has some skills, not bad at all but he gets clobbered and stopped by GGG. Just not the same league. Nothing against Sanders, he did everyone a favor and beat that overrated clown Lee. But he is just not anything for GGG.

[xhiddenx87]

Well Frank Warren already said that he wants this to be a Stadium fight, not just 10K or 15K crowd.

He wants it in UK, and by next week we are going to have some news on this subject, altough we may have some early news from a "very close to be done" Tureano Johnson fight.

[fredhopple]

I think "the Commies" subjected you to extreme trauma when you were a kid back in the 1950s - too many hours back then in a concrete bunker praying that a Soviet missile wasn't about to explode above your sorry a55.

Don't you have any favorite North Korean boxers you can tell us about?

coming from Ecuador one might want to be quiet?

[casheddie]

Fck this fight, If things went my way I would have Jacobs fight Saunders for a real title. While Golovkin fights Johnson in April and hopefully gets the winner right after. Then the Canelo fight in Texas. I say this because Saunders is not interesting for Golovkin but Jacobs is. However, Jacobs is a bullsht titleholder who has a regular version of GGG's WBA belt. So if Golovkin were to fight Jacobs, it wouldn't be as impressive because there is no real champion like Saunders. Therefore, Jacobs-Saunders can create hype around the winner for a potential GGG fight.

[hitking]

I don't see why Team GGG keeps yap'n about this. Saunders made it clear that there are much more attractive options for him on the table that would pay just as much as he's being offered to fight GGG. Team GGG needs to either find some more money, oe go ahead and fight Johnson, which is what the plan is anyway.

[Daddy T]

I know that many posters here rejoice when GGG fails to land a named opponent but I for one would like if they manage to pull this fight off. We can then have a huge unification fight in september for all the titles.

[djt117]

I don't see why Team GGG keeps yap'n about this. Saunders made it clear that there are much more attractive options for him on the table that would pay just as much as he's being offered to fight GGG. Team GGG needs to either find some more money, oe go ahead and fight Johnson, which is what the plan is anyway.

ESPN UK reports the offer is $3.2 million.

You don't offer that kind of money to someone if you're screwing around.

They want Saunders' belt because it makes the fight vs. Canelo for the Undisputed AND Lineal title, and improves Golovkin's bargaining position as well.

The only reason why the tentative plan is Johnson is because he's a mandatory. The IBF rules are that unifications trump mandatories, the mandatory challenger simply has to wait.

Saunders is therefore the only fight they can take besides Johnson without paying Johnson step-aside money.

[Eastcoast]

ESPN UK reports the offer is $3.2 million.

You don't offer that kind of money to someone if you're screwing around.

They want Saunders' belt because it makes the fight vs. Canelo for the Undisputed AND Lineal title, and improves Golovkin's bargaining position as well.

The only reason why the tentative plan is Johnson is because he's a mandatory. The IBF rules are that unifications trump mandatories, the mandatory challenger simply has to wait.

Saunders is therefore the only fight they can take besides Johnson without paying Johnson step-aside money.

K2 doesn't need to hurry and do the Johnson fight. Golovkin has 9 months to do the Johnson IBF mandatory, which is June/July or it goes to purse bid. The end of May is the WBC deadline for Alvarez, which if Alvarez agrees, would give Golovkin a unification exception from having to fight Johnson for 90 days after the Alvarez fight.

If they can't get Saunders to fight, I'd rather they took that big money and went after Jacobs or Lara.

[Daddy T]

ESPN UK reports the offer is $3.2 million.

You don't offer that kind of money to someone if you're screwing around.

They want Saunders' belt because it makes the fight vs. Canelo for the Undisputed AND Lineal title, and improves Golovkin's bargaining position as well.

The only reason why the tentative plan is Johnson is because he's a mandatory. The IBF rules are that unifications trump mandatories, the mandatory challenger simply has to wait.

Saunders is therefore the only fight they can take besides Johnson without paying Johnson step-aside money.

where is the link for that I had heard it was 'over 2 million' If t's really 3.2 million that is like six times saunders' career high payday and way bigger than he could make in any other fight for the foreseeable future.

[Dean_Razorback]

is funny how the same people that say that nobody is ducking GGG are the the same people that say everyone ducked crawford and that is why he is fighting lundy, legitimizing that way a bad fight.