IBF orders Golovkin vs Wade, sides apparently negotiating

[Kagami Taiga]

your tv only has 1 channel?

Was that supposed to be a legit retort?

[The Big Dunn]

so if K2 is on board, and HBO is on board, if the fight doesnt get made exactly who will you blame? Trump? Global Warming? Fox News?

I blame whoever is at fault. Deals often fall through. I will wait to see the outcome. HBO could change just like they did with Stevenson/Kov and the purse bid.

If Haymon decides to let it go to a purse bid, that doesn't mean the fight can't get made. Just means HBO has to outbid for the fight.

[NEETzsche]

Now maybe people should stop blaming Haymon and place the blame where it belongs.

Who cares who's to blame, not wants to see this crap anyways. They'd be doing us a favor.

epic change of tune within five minutes there

[therealpugilist]

he has to fight his mando or get stripped dummy

translation: Im ok with him fighting another no name


Canelo is the champ...he can collect the NABA, WBO and whatever else and he still wont be the champion.


Beating good fighters means more than holding on to a trinket fighting no names

[Kagami Taiga]

epic change of tune within five minutes there

I wasn't changing my tune. I wasn't talking about that fight in specific. I was talking about the idea that Haymon wouldn't work with K2.m that people like to throw around. The true blame clearly lies with HBO. It's up to them to "allow" for Haymon fighters to appear on their network.

[OnePunch]

epic change of tune within five minutes there

haha owned......

[Kagami Taiga]

haha owned......

I'm guessing either you are blind or you can't read.

[OnePunch]

translation: Im ok with him fighting another no name


Canelo is the champ...he can collect the NABA, WBO and whatever else and he still wont be the champion.


Beating good fighters means more than holding on to a trinket fighting no names

translation: I understand he has to do his mando and its not his fault that Saunders is scared and Johnson is hurt.

And I know you're relatively ****** but even still you have to acknowledge that its pretty hard to face "good" opponents when they would sooner jump into a friggin volcano than fight you......

[Eastcoast]

Should be interesting. No way HBO lets GGG fight on Showtime.

I think HBO will allow it. They'll put in every effort to make a deal and then win a purse bid should it come to that, but in the end if Haymon throws crazy money at the fight, HBO would be making a wise decision to allow it. Not doing so only sets a precedence to encourage Haymon to strip all of HBO's title holders. In the past Pernell Whitaker was allowed to fight off HBO (while under an exclusive deal) to go fight on Showtime. It saves on HBO's budget for a ****ty fight and burns off their competition's budget.

Tomorrow the WBA announces the time line for Jacobs/Golovkin, could you really imagine HBO allowing Haymon to strip Golovkin of both his titles? They've put in too much effort to allow it. If their offering BJS over $3mill for his title, the titles obviously mean something to them, more so the brand of being the sole champion is at stake.

[therealpugilist]

translation: I understand he has to do his mando and its not his fault that Saunders is scared and Johnson is hurt.

And I know you're relatively ****** but even still you have to acknowledge that its pretty hard to face "good" opponents when they would sooner jump into a friggin volcano than fight you......

When he fights another mismatch what will you excuse be then?


that nobody will fight him excuse has been ran into the ground....boxing is a what have you done for me lately sport and he aint done much....deal with it...his hype doesnt correlate with his competition

Mandatory or not....the same fools saying mandatory are the same ones who cry about other fighters fighting their mandatories


GGG is a good fighter, HBO is going to keep losing money putting him in with nobodies