Comments Thread For: 30 Day Weights: Gennady Golovkin 164, Dominic Wade 175.6

[Pigeons]

Calling Murray, Geale and Lemieux pathetic is disgraceful what the f*** do you know?? Like i have said before all of Golovkins opponents are bums AFTER he has knocked them the f*** out. Ward clearly has faced better opposition but I can't stand keyboard warriors calling boxers bums or pathetic.

They were bums before too.

[aboutfkntime]

Little homie mad because I shout his ass down. I'm all for VADA but everyone in the boxing community know USADA is corrupt. And fact is the Commision have busted more fighters than USADA in the same time period.

What % of fights do USADA testing, and what % do Commission testing?

[about.thousands]

I have facts while you just have you're opinion.

It was the Commision that busted Tarver last year. Commision busted Bey, Love, and almost every fighter that was doing USADA drug testing.

No it wasn't. Tarver's excuse to the commission was that he passed the commission's test but failed the other test and he was set up by Lou Dibella.



Love failed his post fight test because he took the Diuretic during the weigh-in!

Diuretics are typically used to help cut weight or used as a masking agent for steroids. In Love's case, he struggled severely to make the 160-pound weight limit for the fight with Rosado.

Love was two hours late for the weigh-in and then was 161½ pounds on his first attempt to make weight. He returned to the scale nearly an hour later -- almost maxing out the time allotted to make weight -- and was 160 pounds.

"My guess is that's when he took it, allegedly. He may have taken it then or right before the weigh-in, because he was two hours late," Kizer said.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/9278874/middleweight-prospect-jleon-love-fails-drug-test-faces-ban-fine

Bey also took it the week of the test and the commission ruled Bey's test was an error on his doctor's part because he had documentation he had been given it the week of the fight by his doctor. That's why his suspension was less than Chavez Jr. who was busted for smoking weed.

Bey, who has had a history of illness and was unable to compete in the 2004 Olympics because of pneumonia, went to the Las Vegas Health Center on Jan. 5. According to the notes of the doctor who saw him, Bey complained of decreased libido, decreased stamina, fatigue and overall malaise.

Under the final assessment, the doctor wrote patient "is aware that performance enhancement is not an option and will be treated with low dosage on consistent basis to help with symptoms."

The commission found the evidence Bey presented from the doctor he saw at the clinic credible and it heavily influenced the light penalty he received.

[Scipio2009]

Scipio2009, you do realize the fight is a month out, yes? This is not the UK where fights sell out in minutes/hours. I anticipate a vast majority of people buy their tickets the week of, much like myself. Tickets for many boxing events in the US are ultimately given away for free. 11,000+ sold tickets a month before the fight is pretty damn good...

Golovkin is being hyped at being more than he actually is, and it's getting hilarious at this point.

Selling 11k tickets is a commendable feat, but it's taken him two months to get the sale to the point where K2 was confident enough to open up another section of the venue.

Santa Cruz-Mares put over 13k people into Staples Center, arguably with less lead time than Golovkin-Wade. just keeping things in perspective.

[Scipio2009]

@GGGBoxing v Wade in full effect @theforum 4/23, more tickets released tomorrow, highest capacity ever for boxing pic.twitter.com/OLHvwZRHdN

— Tom Loeffler (@TomLoeffler1) March 24, 2016

Highest capacity for StubHub is still around 9500, even with all of the extras thrown in.

Simply hyping the "highest capacity ever for boxing" could be all of 12k seats at The Forum for all we know, lol.

[Robbie Barrett]

Highest capacity for StubHub is still around 9500, even with all of the extras thrown in.

Simply hyping the "highest capacity ever for boxing" could be all of 12k seats at The Forum for all we know, lol.

His last fight would have created more revenue if his fans stayed at home and bought the PPV, $20 tickets FTW.

[JRS1980]

How exactly are you keeping things in perspective? You are using a fight that consisted of two well known fighters that did 13k on the night of the event as a comparison. Golovkin's fight is already over 11k in ticket sales with an entire month to go, knowing full well a majority of the tickets get sold within the days leading up to the event. It is also against a mandatory opponent that very few people know of. I mean no disrespect, honestly, but your points make no sense.

[HeroBando]

His last fight would have created more revenue if his fans stayed at home and bought the PPV, $20 tickets FTW.

He got 2m in gate. Help me out, how many fighters can do that in the US vs a no name?

[HeroBando]

How exactly are you keeping things in perspective? You are using a fight that consisted of two well known fighters that did 13k on the night of the event as a comparison. Golovkin's fight is already over 11k in ticket sales with an entire month to go, knowing full well a majority of the tickets get sold within the days leading up to the event. It is also against a mandatory opponent that very few people know of. I mean no disrespect, honestly, but your points make no sense.

That's Scipio for you, he's a joke.

[Tobi.G]

Not that uncommon. Rubio for example was 174.5 30-days out. Lemieux was 175.8. Sergio Martinez was consistently over 170 pounds for his 30-day weights, weighing in at the max 176 pounds for Williams II fight.

For comparison, Canelo is typically about 168 pounds 30-days out.

It just proves that GGG is not a big middleweight and fighting at 168 would be a big disadvantage for him. The great Marvin Hagler stayed at middleweight his whole career, i dont get why GGG gets critisized for it. Other fighters move up because they start at the lowest weight-class possible and struggle to cut the weight fast enough as they get older or they just lack discipline, thats why so manny fighters moving up. I dont believe in you have to to be multiple weight class champion to be a great fighter.