How was GGG seen in 2009-2013?

[about.thousands]

Main event budget 1.5m, Lara wants 2m. Math too hard?

Wow shocker HBO didn't want Lara. So how was he an option then?

Show me where you got the numbers. I showed you where they said Monroe was bigger than Lara

[SilverMiles]

I saw no problem with GGG vs Monroe. It was 2 months after fighting the top rated Murray, a fight everyone was asking for at the time, and it gave Monroe a shot to be on HBO and to make more money. A lot of guys complain about certain fighters not getting oppurtunities to shine but when they do they complain about it.

Monroevstick has risen since the fight, so much that he's turning down fights he would have taken a year ago.

[HeroBando]

Show me where you got the numbers. I showed you where they said Monroe was bigger than Lara

The purse is public knowledge. All his fights on that contract had the same budget, about 1.5m.

Sanchez is a trainer, in the Roach/Sr mold. So not too good with the mic. But here he's not even wrong: Monroe brings zero fans, Lara turns away fans

[Ray*]

I called 90% of those posters september 2012 fans, thats when they saw him beat Proksa.

[Robbie Barrett]

I saw no problem with GGG vs Monroe. It was 2 months after fighting the top rated Murray, a fight everyone was asking for at the time, and it gave Monroe a shot to be on HBO and to make more money. A lot of guys complain about certain fighters not getting oppurtunities to shine but when they do they complain about it.

Monroevstick has risen since the fight, so much that he's turning down fights he would have taken a year ago.

He got a $100k purse.

[bojangles1987]

He was really ****ed over by his promoter in those days. The best thing K2 did was get him active because it made it much harder for all the duckers to keep ducking. It's unbelievable how he couldn't even get top 10 fighters in the ring with him. They were turning down chances at title shots to avoid Golovkin.

[IronDanHamza]

He came onto the scene against Proska in 2012 I believe it was. Both touted as decent up and comers.

That's the first fight I saw of him. Then I went and watched back some of his prior ones.

He's been progressing from there really.

[SilverMiles]

He got a $100k purse.

His biggest purse to date, an opportunity to dethrone GGG which would have lead to a rematch and even bigger purse. Date on HBO and now a date on Showtime in another fight that could lead him to title contention,

Without the GGG fight he would be largely ignored by ignorant fans who throw around terms like ESPN level fighter, as if fighters don't have the right to move up in the boxing world.

Like I said two months after a fight with top rated Murray he took a turn up fight with Monroe. In this era guys usually only fight one or two too fighters. GGG did that in 2015.

[about.thousands]

I saw no problem with GGG vs Monroe. It was 2 months after fighting the top rated Murray, a fight everyone was asking for at the time, and it gave Monroe a shot to be on HBO and to make more money. A lot of guys complain about certain fighters not getting oppurtunities to shine but when they do they complain about it.

Monroevstick has risen since the fight, so much that he's turning down fights he would have taken a year ago.

Exactly, it was 2 months, that's the problem. It showed that they didn't even try to make a fight with anyone else. They went for a guy who would say yes and accept $100k.

[about.thousands]

The purse is public knowledge. All his fights on that contract had the same budget, about 1.5m.

Sanchez is a trainer, in the Roach/Sr mold. So not too good with the mic. But here he's not even wrong: Monroe brings zero fans, Lara turns away fans

The purse is public knowledge but the licensing isn't. Show me the numbers of the budget for the fight.