Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Wade Sells Over 8,000 Tickets in First Week

[tiliheels]

I kind of agree with you. This just goes to show that they could put dog sht in the ring and it will sale. Wade isn't the IBF #1 or even the #2 RANKED boxer for them. What's worse is a 42 year old boxer had a SD against him... I rank Wade probably as the #13-15th best MW. Yet he's fighting for a belt???

This is like supporting a shty movie. But now they got the greenlight to make a bunch of sequels of this shty movie.

Whoever bought tickets to this paid to watch a sparring match. And to see GGG beat up a human punching bag.

i dont know why i got so much crap for this..im not a ggg hater..im a hater of anyone who is wasting boxings time..and that would be broner at the moment, crawford at the moment, ggg at the moment, hell even more

[tiliheels]

Why are you so bitter .....if it sells 8k for this fight in a week it sells it..if people want to go to see it it's there money, do you realise how petty and envious you sound when you write this crap...let me guess tilli you was wanting it to sell hardly any tickets so you could write ....ahh golovkin can't sell tickets and and he is overated blah blah blah...and stuff like that...but yiu can't so you say something else....I seem to recall the **** fight that mayweather tried to sell us against berto and mugging us all off with the ppv cost ...at least with triple ggg he will give you blood for your money......you are very bitter and envious ...put it this way I would rather watch golovkin hunt a fighter down and beat him up than see f@cking mayweather grab and hugg all 12 rounds ...get over it your sound jealous..and also Roman Gonzalez is on ...amazing fighter to watch added with triple ggg.....but ohh no I bet u prefer mayweather vs berto and j'leon love on it

not bitterness..it s the sport you love spitting in your face...and they will continue to do it as long as it makes money...roman and ggg vs sure fire wins...if that is exciting for you idk wat to say...i like competitive fights with or without blood..not mismatches that might produce blood..just tired of hbo selling me a storyline instead of competition...

[tiliheels]

Casuals like KO's and dont care about matchups. They hardly know any of these fighters but if they KO then they are in.

Us hardcore fans only make up a very small % of the overall fans

and i've talk to many ppl that told me that i would get burned on boxing just like they did as a hardcore fan...i hate to say it but it is coming true..
fights are falling off left to right
guys are all about risk and reward
fan boy protection squads
guys who only want their guy in fights that he has every advantage in
terrible belt orgs with outdated policies that they ignore
terrible promoters
lack of unifications
racism
u name it, and im just about sick of it

[Shadoww702]

Most fighters are not. Canelo, PAC, Cotto, Floyd all had built in fan bases. Mexico, Philippines (really many Asians), PR, and Americans will buy in great numbers if they feel their homeboy is decent.

As a Eastern European, former U.S.S.R. really, he not only doesn't come with a built in base, but it's damn hard toget people to notice. If GGG was Mexican or American, he'd big freaken huge.

Having said that, it's probably only a Matt of time before he starts breaking through in a big way.



Canelo versus Khan is a mismatch, so what. It's not like Lara was begging GGG before IBF ruled GGG must do his mandatory.

100 of fights they passed on. That's hyperbole. I can't think of one. Even if you contend Ward's so called offer was legit, it wasn't a go until late 2016.

Lara's Twitter blunt aside, the man simply isn't calling K2, so it is rightly assumed he is just talking.

He wants to be overpaid, and probably thinks if he can make GGG call him, it'd be easier to get that big check.

I wonder why else he doesn't reach out to K2.

Ok, name 98 potential opponents that have agreed to get in with GGG, that are even as legit as a mandaotory defense.

GGG should want all the MW titles. It makes it so any MW who wants to be champion has to come see him.



Really, Ward couldn't even give enough free tickets away fighting his last fight in Oakland.

By few fighters are doing numbers like GGG is. GGG is clearly one of the top draws in the sport. Not bad for a Eastern European fighter who has been in the u.s. Since 2012.

Your drunk if you don't think Ward/GGG would of been huge!! Heck Kov/Ward is the 2nd most sought out fight this year after Ggg/Canelo (Better be in Vegas instead of Dallas). The knock and only knock I have against ggg is how old he his and how's he's never fought a really good/great boxer. And everytime I get excited about one of his fights they just never pan out. Like Ward/GGG. Chavez ( the one destroyed Lee not this version).

I do think Saul and GGG will fight in Sept. And I'm gonna be there live.

[OnePunch]

The #1 was Johnson who pulled out due to injury. Next man up was Wade.
http://www.ibfusbaregistration.com/i...?view=rankings

IBF often has some wonky ratings, but they are strict with there mandatory rules. It's why Karo Murat was mandatory to Hopkins, or Nadjib Mohammedi mandatory to Kovalev. Neither were good fights, but necessary for both Hopkins & Kovalev to keep their belts. Same situation here with Golovkin.

Keep in mind, Golovkin wanted Canelo next, who wasn't ready, or Billy Saunders, who flat out declined. Each would have prevented the Wade fight from happening since unification fights trump a mandatory, but as you know neither fighter wanted to fight Golovkin next, so here we are.

People buy these tickets because they want to see Golovkin fight live, obviously, and the guy has a fan-base. This isn't true for all fighters of course, for example, put Lara vs Zaveck as a main event and perhaps only 500 people buy tickets at full price.

that many?? I would have guessed maybe half that lol

[OnePunch]

Your drunk if you don't think Ward/GGG would of been huge!! Heck Kov/Ward is the 2nd most sought out fight this year after Ggg/Canelo (Better be in Vegas instead of Dallas). The knock and only knock I have against ggg is how old he his and how's he's never fought a really good/great boxer. And everytime I get excited about one of his fights they just never pan out. Like Ward/GGG. Chavez ( the one destroyed Lee not this version).

I do think Saul and GGG will fight in Sept. And I'm gonna be there live.

and yet most analysts dont think that Kov-Ward will crack 300k buys......


Face it, outside the hardcores, nobody give a **** about GGG-Ward. It doesnt matter to anyone except the .0001% of boxing fans who oh so desperately want and pray for someone to beat GGG, and they think that Ward is that guy. Too bad Ward didnt think so and would only accept a GGG fight if it was postponed a year and change later.....

[Eastcoast]

How many tickets have been sold for Ward/Barrera?

[Shadoww702]

i dont know why i got so much crap for this..im not a ggg hater..im a hater of anyone who is wasting boxings time..and that would be broner at the moment, crawford at the moment, ggg at the moment, hell even more

I get called worse! I even RANKED the MW division

#1 GGG
#2 Canelo
#3 Cotto
#4 Jacobs

But still get called out. GGG passes the eye test and has skills but so did Broner before he moved up in weight and fought much better fighters! I don't think GGG has ever been less then a 18:1++ favorite. He needs to give up the mandatory chase and now go for GREATNESS or be happy never making the boxing Hall of fame. The MW is ran by him and EX-139 lbers.

[The plunger man]

not bitterness..it s the sport you love spitting in your face...and they will continue to do it as long as it makes money...roman and ggg vs sure fire wins...if that is exciting for you idk wat to say...i like competitive fights with or without blood..not mismatches that might produce blood..just tired of hbo selling me a storyline instead of competition...

You can't blame golovkin for no one fighting him...it's a mandatory so he has to fight it ...it's also ppv which means you don't have to buy and don't even have to watch it...what about mayweather vs berto ... broner vs pheophane......wilder vs Molina ...garcia vs saika...ppv means u don't have to buy it so what's the problem with it...I know it's not ideal but it could have been canelo and we know who's fault that is......if it's on box nation I will watch it if not I'll ****** it......it is what it is ...

[about.thousands]

let the hate flow.... men not all the Chavez Sr fights were good, and that guy could sell out a stadium. Same for Canelo, the thing is, this only solidifies GGG's position as a pretty good name (not super star), the man puts butts in seats.

They weren't all good but he earned the right to fight cab drivers because he'd already fought beasts. What has Golovkin done to earn the right to fight Monroe Jr & Wade?