Comments Thread For: IBF Nears Issuing Order For Gennady Golovkin To Face Johnson

[Zygoma]

Ggg

In general there is too much time between fights particularly with boxers who do not take a beating like GGG, Kovalev, Ward, etc. These athletes are all into their 30's and we won't have them around much longer so wouldn't it be sweet to see them perform more than once or twice a year? I mean what is GGG doing these days? Maybe he should enroll in college since he's not fighting anyone.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

bro let that dude defend his title and get his money dang..he just won it..did ggg get asked to fight the best after no defenses? no...GGG is not their god..they dont give a dang about his career..that is why u dont camp out in a terrible division..everyone will fear u and ask dumb things to fight you..if he goes to 168 he can have even money if not better money with guys who are not scared of him. if u really want his belt fight the wbo's number 2 guy, but guess wat..u going to have to pay him too...if they set a precedent of paying billy 3 million bucks..all fighters are going to say i want it to...FIGHT JONSHON THEN FORCE THE CANELO FIGHT...IF BILLY IS STILL TLAKIN THAT MONEY NONSESE..MOVE UP..or u will have to pay everyone that kind of money..HISTORY WILL NEVER FORGET BILLY AS A DUCK AND WILL PENCIL GGG IN AS A THE MAN AT 160..

Isnt 168 basically dominated by Haymon and guys who don't even fight each other. It's funny you think GGG would have success finding 168 fights.

And as a small MW, GGG walks into the ring at the same weight as Lara, Andrade, Charlo, but those guys are not putting up huge fights. They are not trying to unify. They are doing jack. Do you complain they are camping out at JRMW as you say. At least GGG has a goal.

Do you find time to constantly biiiiiitch about other fighters ****ty competition.

You probably think every fighter who says a person's name truly wants to fight.

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he's not a champion..he's a belt holder..a champion is a guy who can defend his title..let him do that instead of feeding his career to something that he is not ready for.. if sergio martinez would have called out ggg after ggg won his belt..we might not have a GGG...why bc ggg was likely not ready for that..nobody rushed him..its not even a competitive fight the championship doesn make the fighter the fighter makes the belt..let him make that belt first and then do that fight

If Sergio would have given GGG a shot right out the gate GGG would have unified and been the lineal title holder by now. Sergio took another route, one that steered clear of Trip.

[SteveM]

I don't know why K2 agreed with Golden Boy that Canelo and Golovkin each fight only one fight prior to September. This is against Golovkin's normal activity level of 3/4 fights a year (unless they're gonna try squeeze in some BS stay busy [for what] fight in December) and also means that we are n ow in this situation where it is either a unification OR a mandatory.

If K2 had had their wits about them, back in October they could have scheduled the Johnson fight for this month and then tried to get the best fight possible for May such as BJS or Jacobs or whoever - now this has come up - and I don't blame the IBF for pushing hard.

[tiliheels]

Isnt 168 basically dominated by Haymon and guys who don't even fight each other. It's funny you think GGG would have success finding 168 fights.

And as a small MW, GGG walks into the ring at the same weight as Lara, Andrade, Charlo, but those guys are not putting up huge fights. They are not trying to unify. They are doing jack. Do you complain they are camping out at JRMW as you say. At least GGG has a goal.

Do you find time to constantly biiiiiitch about other fighters ****ty competition.

You probably think every fighter who says a person's name truly wants to fight.

There's a



If Sergio would have given GGG a shot right out the gate GGG would have unified and been the lineal title holder by now. Sergio took another route, one that steered clear of Trip.

if u think he fights sergio the first fight..then that is your opinion..but he made no noise about it until he got some wins under his belt..and no 168 would have tr's mexican fighter abraham as well...those are names he oculd run with and he could entice ward to come down to 168 again..or maybe a cw..but that is were his legacy lies...zurdo is a beast imo....and everyone is saying peter nelson wants to work with haymon..but if he pays a guy who doesnt deserve it 4 millino bucks..he's basically settin himself up for crap...everyone wlill ask for that doe

[Lou Cipher]

Doesn't matter who GGG fights. The African Assassin will take them all down and run off all the coWARDs who talk but never step up to the plate.

[SteveM]

When these guys win belts they start to think they call shots and most of marketing now is going be done on whatever organization champion, Saunders not in sport to help better golovkin career he in it to better his we all know he not pulling no upset and domestics fights won't be there with him holding the trump card in negoations which is that wbo belt sad but that's how it is

pretty much actually.

BJS can earn nearly as much from 2 fights against Eubank (2 million guess) and Blackwell ($750K guess) than he can aginst Golovkin and then the Golovkin and a possible Canelo fight are still there for him next year.

I would really like to see a unification but the only way is probably if Golovkin fights the WBO mandatory and gets himself listed as BJS mandatory (would the WBO even entertain that idea?)

If Golovkin was 30 yrs old none of this would matter but he turns 34 in April.

[SteveM]

In general there is too much time between fights particularly with boxers who do not take a beating like GGG, Kovalev, Ward, etc. These athletes are all into their 30's and we won't have them around much longer so wouldn't it be sweet to see them perform more than once or twice a year? I mean what is GGG doing these days? Maybe he should enroll in college since he's not fighting anyone.

Lol - that is pretty hard. It is less than 3 months since he last fought and he has been trying to straighten out team Canelo in that time - but I do say he should have gotten the mando out the way this month or next.

[HanzGruber]

lol ibf looking like a bunch of idiots with all this forcing crap.. what theyre gonna make him drop the belt if he fights canelo next

[SteveM]

if u think he fights sergio the first fight..then that is your opinion..but he made no noise about it until he got some wins under his belt..and no 168 would have tr's mexican fighter abraham as well...those are names he oculd run with and he could entice ward to come down to 168 again..or maybe a cw..but that is were his legacy lies...zurdo is a beast imo....and everyone is saying peter nelson wants to work with haymon..but if he pays a guy who doesnt deserve it 4 millino bucks..he's basically settin himself up for crap...everyone wlill ask for that doe

There is another option - BJS said pay me more or come to UK - so GGG should go to UK - other fighters not gonna say "or come to UK" are they?

[ИATAS]

lol ibf looking like a bunch of idiots with all this forcing crap.. what theyre gonna make him drop the belt if he fights canelo next

no because unification overrides mandatory. A fight with either Canelo or Saunders are the only two fights he can take to get around the mandatory (thus the high offer to BJS).