IBF orders Golovkin vs Wade, sides apparently negotiating

[Swatty]

Yeah that's a dreadful fight. Would Haymon even want to put Wade in against Golovkin? What would be the point?

What would be the point? GGG would be by far the biggest name any Haymon fighter has been in with.

[NEETzsche]

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.

haymon won't let his fighters on HBO

GBP, K2, main events, and even top rank have allowed their fighters to fight off HBO (when there were no exclusive contracts), but haymon has never reciprocated that i can remember

[bigjavi973]

Two words.....

Al Haymon

[Swatty]

If GGG was always going to be in a meh fight next I'd rather seen him fight N'dam just to see if N'dam can finally be KO'd. He goes down a lot, but gets back up all the time and seems to win the rounds he doesn't get knocked down in.

Better than no names.

You just gave a description of the Lemieux fight. Ndam won except for the knockdowns. Yeah, I know... they do count.

[Weebler I]

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.

I can see them allowing it on free-to-air tv as that would increase GGG's exposure, but Sho, a direct rival? difficult to imagine.

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.

Yes, if they can guarantee Canelo leaving GGG lineal and a star.

Titles probably do mean something but not enough to see their prized possession fight on their biggest rival's platform independent of HBO.

[NEETzsche]

You just gave a description of the Lemieux fight. Ndam won except for the knockdowns. Yeah, I know... they do count.

n'dam's a pretty fun fighter. fast feet, busy hands, huge heart... and a chin that makes khan look like chuvalo

he'd beat wade imo

[Kagami Taiga]

haymon won't let his fighters on HBO

GBP, K2, main events, and even top rank have allowed their fighters to fight off HBO (when there were no exclusive contracts), but haymon has never reciprocated that i can remember

That's bull. Haymon has not once said his fighters can't fight on HBO. In fact, he has been willing. Look at Kovalev vs Stevenson. Only reason that fight is even being negotiated is because Haymon allows his fighters to fight on HBO.

[Kagami Taiga]

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.

I think u misunderstand. If Haymon wins the purse bid, he has every right to choose the network and HBO can't do anything about that. So I'm pretty sure that's why they are even allowing the negotiating.

[ИATAS]

That's bull. Haymon has not once said his fighters can't fight on HBO.

Haymon doesn't say anything at all.

[Chollo Vista]

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.

Agreed with all of this.