Golovkin vs Wade - April 23 on HBO

[KeyboardWarrior]

This is the same guy who got a gift over Sam Soliman?

[rudy]

who is Wade and yes Khan is better

[ИATAS]

This is the same guy who got a gift over Sam Soliman?

yep. IBF rankings are pretty poor. They shouldn't enforce mandatories when the #1 & #2 guys pass, they should simply wait.

good fighters in lower weight class > **** fighters in same weight class

Oh ok so Golovkin beating Roman Gonzalez is better than beating a middleweight, got it!

[Luiz]

Err it's a mandatory but this should not be a HBO fight.

[DoktorSleepless]

yep. IBF rankings are pretty poor. They shouldn't enforce mandatories when the #1 & #2 guys pass, they should simply wait.




Oh ok so Golovkin beating Roman Gonzalez is better than beating a middleweight, got it!

Don't play dumb. The context is one weight class+1lb.


Lets also pretend Narvaez didn't take a bigger challenge by fighting Inoue from two weight classes below than a random top 25 guy at 115.

[PK3434]

Err it's a mandatory but this should not be a HBO fight.

I get what you are saying, but HBO can't just pass on the fight like they did a couple years ago in one of Golovkin's stay busy fights...He is a much bigger star now and they need to showcase him every chance they can, especially when there are big Golovkin fights in the near future....GGG vs Canelo, GGG vs Zurdo Ramirez...maybe in a couple years GGG vs Kovalev or Ward..which would all probably be pretty big ppv events.

[Jsmooth9876]

Another great MW fight brought to us by HBO.

Hopefully AL's best fighters can fight the best HBO guys.

Why can't Stevenson?

[13777]

At least he's a MW and will fight at 160 pounds

Billy Joe Saunders vs. Kell Brook

GGG vs. Danny Garcia

Andre Ward vs. Erislandy Lara

Tyson Fury vs. Martin Murray

[i'm a fun haver]

Disappointing. I was hoping they'd get Wade to take a step aside and agree to a fight with BJS.

Wade's truly not a bad fighter and is pretty highly rated, but he's so inexperienced. We get to see proof that Haymon lets his guys fight on HBO though, which is great, great news!

You have to understand this: Billy Joe Saunders does not want to fight Gennady Golovkin.
Saunders turned down a career high payday already.

[ИATAS]

Don't play dumb. The context is one weight class+1lb.

Yeah let's talk about context. Canelo will weigh over 170 pounds in the ring against a guy who's never fought over 147 and was getting rocked by Chris Algieri for crying out loud and he's fighting for the lineal middleweight championship? Wade is an actual middleweight ranked #3 by the IBF, Khan isn't ranked at 160 or even 154. I'd give Wade more of a shot than winning than Khan has over Canelo. It's absolutely absurd (it definitely should be a non title match).