GGG vs. Wade Ratings

[The Big Dunn]

Its a free view weekend on HBO, the fight follows Jurassic Park and Beyoncé, and HBO has done a lot of promoting (throw out ball at dodger stadium, espn spots). I think it could exceed 1.5 mil.

[Irony123]

Berto is better than Wade and more proven......GGG has a resume full of Wade's and berto's.....as a lil g fan are you sure you wanna go there(resumes)? I have no clue what Floyd has to do with this because he is 50 times greater than lil g, talent wise and resume.

my point is if they made floyd vs. Berto which was a god awful fight... you can't justify that fight accept that it was an easy going away fight... and it got 500k ppv buys... which brings me to my point that ****ty fight got that many ppv views then this fight would get decent ratings.

[daggum]

Its a free view weekend on HBO, the fight follows Jurassic Park and Beyoncé, and HBO has done a lot of promoting (throw out ball at dodger stadium, espn spots). I think it could exceed 1.5 mil.

you are just a ggg fanboy. this won't touch a million. ggg can throw all the balls out he wants that doesn't mean he will ever grow a pair of his own and fight good fighters

[Xi_]

my point is if they made floyd vs. Berto which was a god awful fight... you can't justify that fight accept that it was an easy going away fight... and it got 500k ppv buys... which brings me to my point that ****ty fight got that many ppv views then this fight would get decent ratings.

lol@you comparing a farewell fight to ggg's long career of can crushing.....and why can't i accept the berto fight as a farewell fight? pbf had nothing else to prove in his hof career, lil g is 34 and has yet to face a good opponent.

[The Big Dunn]

you are just a ggg fanboy. this won't touch a million. ggg can throw all the balls out he wants that doesn't mean he will ever grow a pair of his own and fight good fighters

1st sentence -false HAHAHAHAH.

2nd sentence-I disagree. He consistently exceeds 1 million viewers

3rd sentence-true

[Irony123]

lol@you comparing a farewell fight to ggg's long career of can crushing.....and why can't i accept the berto fight as a farewell fight? pbf had nothing else to prove in his hof career, lil g is 34 and has yet to face a good opponent.

no... i am comparing a farewell fight to a mandatory fight. Neither is a great fight by any standard. I am comparing opponents and Berto isn't any better than Wade

You act like GGG is fighting the worst options availble to him but ignore the facts that he is trying to unify, that he faced Geale (at 160... not the 157 version) who only lost by SD before that fight, Martin Murray who arguably beat Martinez and should have been the lineal champ and lemiux who was the champ... and that he consistently fights top 10 guys in his division... and fights 3-4 times a year.

Anyways it doesn't matter i know your position on "lil G" i am not trying to change your mind or don't really care... we are all entitled to our opinion.

[BrometheusBob.]

Only 2 fights from HBO or SHO have broken 1M in 2016, Kovalev-Pascal II 1.179M and Ward-Barrera 1.064M.
If Golovkin can score 1.2M vs. a bum like Wade, I'd be very impressed by that.

Hm.... you bring up a good point.

This might not make a mil as easily as I thought.

[Xi_]

no... i am comparing a farewell fight to a mandatory fight. Neither is a great fight by any standard. I am comparing opponents and Berto isn't any better than Wade

You act like GGG is fighting the worst options availble to him but ignore the facts that he is trying to unify, that he faced Geale (at 160... not the 157 version) who only lost by SD before that fight, Martin Murray who arguably beat Martinez and should have been the lineal champ and lemiux who was the champ... and that he consistently fights top 10 guys in his division... and fights 3-4 times a year.

Anyways it doesn't matter i know your position on "lil G" i am not trying to change your mind or don't really care... we are all entitled to our opinion.

first of all, lets not act let this division is stacked because it's arguably the weakest division in the sport .....black and white, murray lost to a one legged old version of martinez and got beat up by arguably andre ward's easiest opponent in the super 6 who is also past prime.....murray is a b minus figther on his best day.....lemule is all power, very limited and was ko'ed by freaking rubio.

[Irony123]

first of all, lets not act let this division is stacked because it's arguably the weakest division in the sport .....black and white, murray lost to a one legged old version of martinez and got beat up by arguably andre ward's easiest opponent in the super 6 who is also past prime.....murray is a b minus figther on his best day.....lemule is all power, very limited and was ko'ed by freaking rubio.

It isn't a strong division but its not the weakest either. It always happens when a talent rises head and shoulders above everyone else the division gets weak. Maybe it's not weak maybe its just the reflection in comparison to the talent that stands head and shoulders above the rest... it always happens this way.

Murray is a top 10 middleweight, would give anyone problems at middleweight... weaker at SMW. Lemiux lost to Rubio when he was 22 years old... bad loss and the one after that is even worse (alcine)... if you saw the Rubio fight you can tell that he shot his load too early... lost because of his inexperience more than anything. a lot of good fighters lost fights early in their career due to inexperience (Hopkins, Paquio, Hagler... Lemiux is nothing like these guys... but i am not going to write him off because of his rookie mistakes early in his career).

anyways going way off topic... the point is that Wade and Berto weren't/aren't great opponents... i think we both can agree on that.

[Xi_]

It isn't a strong division but its not the weakest either. It always happens when a talent rises head and shoulders above everyone else the division gets weak. Maybe it's not weak maybe its just the reflection in comparison to the talent that stands head and shoulders above the rest... it always happens this way.

Murray is a top 10 middleweight, would give anyone problems at middleweight... weaker at SMW. Lemiux lost to Rubio when he was 22 years old... bad loss and the one after that is even worse (alcine)... if you saw the Rubio fight you can tell that he shot his load too early... lost because of his inexperience more than anything. a lot of good fighters lost fights early in their career due to inexperience (Hopkins, Paquio, Hagler... Lemiux is nothing like these guys... but i am not going to write him off because of his rookie mistakes early in his career).

anyways going way off topic... the point is that Wade and Berto weren't/aren't great opponents... i think we both can agree on that.

ok thats fair