Comments Thread For: Gennady Golovkin Wants To Be Active in 2016, Says Loeffler

[Shadoww702]

You guys needs to STFU with that Ward non sense.

Ward isn't a 160 pounders.
So now on BS you can duck fighters who aren't in your own division?

If Ward desperately wants to fight GGG, he should go down to 160...just like Dawson did from 175 to 168 in order to face him.

GGG didn't fight Ward at 168 and was smart to do so.
Dude has to clear is own division before moving up to fight a TOP3 P4P fighter.

GGG isn't a big middleweight and will probably struggle once if he reaches 175 even maybe 168 facing elite opponents (not talking about Ramirez or Badou Jack).
Guys in those divisions are at least 6 footers.

Canelo is 155, so he needs to fight people from 154 to 160 OR GO DOWN TO 154.
He's clearly ducking the true middleweights, fighting others blown up welterweights.

Ward would DEFINITELY come down from 175 to 168 like Dawson did the problem is that GGG won't move up. Canelo is 5' 8" standing on his tippy toes. Most 160 lbser are 5' 10" at least.

[Shadoww702]

Less quantity and more quality opponents is what he needs right now, he's getting old fast.

BINGO!!!! But as you can see by the comments from his fans they don't care about that. They just want to see GGG fight 4-5 times a year even if the competition is soo bad they ZERO chance of winning.

[HeroBando]

April 18, 2016:

Golovkin is considered the most lethal fighter in the middleweight division, a division that has historically been one of the deepest and most competitive in professional boxing. It's routinely stacked with outstanding contenders with the biggest alpha among them holding the title. Golovkin is surely the alpha fighter at 160 today, and if there's a fighter in the division who can match-up with his physicality, I haven't seen or heard of him. The only fighter in the division who slightly excites fans as far as being an opponent for Gennady is Saul "Canelo" Alvarez 46-1-1 (32), who is the lineal champ. And for the past four or five months it's been floated via the media that if Golovkin beats Domenic Wade 18-0 (12) this Saturday night and Alvarez beats Amir Khan 31-3 (19) next month, the two will fight later this year for the undisputed middleweight title -- something I don't think many hold out much hope in happening, but for argument sake, let’s suppose they do meet and Golovkin wins.

Then what?

The sad truth is after Alvarez, there's really not an exceptional middleweight (and I'm not even sure Alvarez is one) around whom one can imagine pushing Golovkin or giving him much of a fight. And that hurts Gennady's chance to make millions of dollars and maybe even worse, it'll be more difficult for him to build a legacy that rivals recent greats the likes of Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins...

Unfortunately, there isn't another middleweight in the world qualified to fight him that's an outstanding fighter, let alone a near great. Monzon, Hagler and Hopkins had the same problem after they cleaned out the division. With the difference being, the big names for those three to fight were welterweights and junior middleweights that moved up to 160. Monzon had great welters the likes of Emile Griffith and Jose Napoles who moved up to fight him. Hagler benefited from Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard all moving up to partake in super-fights with him, as did Hopkins when Oscar De La Hoya and Felix Trinidad packed on a few more pounds to challenge him for the middleweight title.

Golovkin isn't as fortunate. The marque welterweights of today....Manny Pacquiao, Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, Kell Brook and Timothy Bradley aren't seen as a legitimate threat to GGG who one day, due to his fight altering power, may be seen as a near equal to Monzon, Hagler and Hopkins.....and the current elite welterweights aren't near the fighters Griffith, Napoles, Duran, Hearns, Leonard, De La Hoya and Trinidad were. Only Mayweather offers Golovkin, in terms of stature and ability, what the aforementioned greats did for Monzon, Hagler and Hopkins.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...t-the-division

Just another example of why Canelo is so important for GGG, and why if he has to go to 155, it's worth it!

Lol you're a joke, more essays to support this shameful bluff they dropped already. Keep up, ******

[Bronx2245]

Lol you're a joke, more essays to support this shameful bluff they dropped already. Keep up, ******

Knowledge is power! Go get some!

[BillyBoxing]

So Golovkin is scared.

I don't think Golovkin is scared.

But Ward is a world beater and a bigger man.

I would favor Ward over GGG just based on his size and experience for big fights.

GGG needs to take care of his own division before moving up to 168 fighting who might be the P4P best.

Would have been a ****** move to put GGG in the mix with Ward when you have possible big fights with Canelo, Cotto and 2 others 160 titilists.

[HeroBando]

Knowledge is power! Go get some!

I wouldn't go looking from knowledge from you, you're a feeble wind-up. Yes dumb ****, there's been CWs in the past, so it makes this unprecedented demand OK? You should be ashamed of yourself

[BillyBoxing]

In your reply to me you defend this coward refusing to move up. And in the very next reply say Canelo must move up. So what White Privilege?

Canelo is the WBC middleweight reigning champion.
How defending this belt at 160 is moving up?
That guy needs to vacate the belt if he refuses to fight at 160...


White privilege?
Don't know if you are refering to both fighters color but Canelo might be the whiter one btw both guys lol
Mexican/latino is not a race.

[BillyBoxing]

Ward would DEFINITELY come down from 175 to 168 like Dawson did the problem is that GGG won't move up. Canelo is 5' 8" standing on his tippy toes. Most 160 lbser are 5' 10" at least.

I was talking about Ward being a 168 pounders back in days when the fight was offered and so moving down to 160.

[BrometheusBob.]

Why hasn't the coward enforced his mandatory?

Yeah I bet he's terrified of fighting the most financially rewarding fight of his career against a guy he'd be a big favorite to beat

[Shadoww702]

I don't think Golovkin is scared.

But Ward is a world beater and a bigger man.

I would favor Ward over GGG just based on his size and experience for big fights.

GGG needs to take care of his own division before moving up to 168 fighting who might be the P4P best.

Would have been a ****** move to put GGG in the mix with Ward when you have possible big fights with Canelo, Cotto and 2 others 160 titilists.

Cotto/GGG is a BIGGER size mismatch then GGG/Ward was before he moved up.