Comments Thread For: Roman Gonzalez On The Verge Of Main Event Status

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By Jake Donovan - It's been a pairing deemed too good to be true, just a matter of time before the consensus top two pound-for-pound boxers in the world become too big to continue to appear on the same shows together. For the third time in as many outings, Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez co-headline an HBO-distributed event. Only, this weekend's showing could prove to be the last.
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[daggum]

nope he's not but its good to pretend. we are all pretending verdejo is the next big superstar so why not?

[Kagami Taiga]

Lol, no hes not. lets not kid ourselves. Although, the way things are going at HBO nowadays, who cares.

[1hourRun]

I want to tell all you victims of sour g****s that all these championships ALL these accolades ( Lineal,p4p,multiple weight champion, international superstar) all this glory is staying around Roman Gonzalez and this is only the beginning!! as far as K2 & 'lil' G is concern Chocolatito is ditching that coward ; hes been riding the champs coattail long enough.This Saturday at the great Inglewood forum the chant of 'Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!' will be deafening and all you casuals who ever had a doubt that RG will ever main event on HBO will think twice next time.

You NSB fanboys make me sick to think that you can sit back and watch Victor Ortiz vs. Andre Berto in a crude spectacle mainevent but have a problem watching the best in the sport headlining against a solid opponent...you're not fans of this sport your a bunch of d*ckriders! but the that's going to make the win even much sweeter.

[Dr Rumack]

Would be nice but it's hard to see it. I'm not sure people are that interested in seeing a flyweight dominate other guys they've never seen before, no matter how good he is. Flyweights in competitive fights is a different story.

If there was a strategy to make something like Gonzalez-Inoue within 12-15 months then giving Roman headline slots might work. But they need to create some sense of where it's all going for people to really care.

[-Antonio-]

I just feel like more than not once you get under around Bantamweight a lot of people start losing interest because these men are the size of children. I personally don't mind, and most hardcover fans dont. In order to truly cross over though you need that extra appeal.

If you look in UFC, Mighty Mouse doesn't have that big of following because of the same problem and I thibk he fights at 125.

[SteveM]

Would be nice but it's hard to see it. I'm not sure people are that interested in seeing a flyweight dominate other guys they've never seen before, no matter how good he is. Flyweights in competitive fights is a different story.

If there was a strategy to make something like Gonzalez-Inoue within 12-15 months then giving Roman headline slots might work. But they need to create some sense of where it's all going for people to really care.

Exactly. HBO needs to be getting Estrada on the undercards of big fights. Failing that, as you rightly point out, Inoue.

To be honest, these small guy battles are so much better than the battles at weights north of 130 that I reckon ESPN or similar could create a Friday night series just of the sub super bantamweights duking it out - that would create real story lines and intrigue and THEN the best could shift up to Showtime or HBO.

[SteveM]

I want to tell all you victims of sour g****s that all these championships ALL these accolades ( Lineal,p4p,multiple weight champion, international superstar) all this glory is staying around Roman Gonzalez and this is only the beginning!! as far as K2 & 'lil' G is concern Chocolatito is ditching that coward ; hes been riding the champs coattail long enough.This Saturday at the great Inglewood forum the chant of 'Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!' will be deafening and all you casuals who ever had a doubt that RG will ever main event on HBO will think twice next time.

You NSB fanboys make me sick to think that you can sit back and watch Victor Ortiz vs. Andre Berto in a crude spectacle mainevent but have a problem watching the best in the sport headlining against a solid opponent...you're not fans of this sport your a bunch of d*ckriders! but the that's going to make the win even much sweeter.

You got a valid point there. I'd even go so far as to say, that at a pound for pound level, the last few Gonzalez fights have more combined skill on show than will be evident in the Porter-Thurman battle, the Golovkin - Wade battle. Only the Ward-Kovalev fight will have similar levels of skill involved. Now if Rigo would step in with Loma or somehow Inoue could get matched up with Rigo or Gonzalez then we are talking off the scale skill levels.

[Dr Rumack]

Exactly. HBO needs to be getting Estrada on the undercards of big fights. Failing that, as you rightly point out, Inoue.

To be honest, these small guy battles are so much better than the battles at weights north of 130 that I reckon ESPN or similar could create a Friday night series just of the sub super bantamweights duking it out - that would create real story lines and intrigue and THEN the best could shift up to Showtime or HBO.

Yep, there has to be a storyline. The Estrada rematch is a very marketable one.

The biggest problem with boxing generally is that there's no 'so what' factor for casual onlookers. One guy beats the other guy, so what? That's what the rankings and championship structure is supposed to provide, but the sport as a whole has pissed on that and set it on fire over the last 2 decades. It kills boxing, because you're completely reliant on selling personalities then which is really hard to do.

[Eff Pandas]

The problem isn't necessarily that Roman is a lil guy (obviously don't help doe), but there isn't many fights that anyone gives any f#cks about at that weight. I mean how many active 112lbers can the run of the mill average boxing fan name? I'm guessing Roman is probably the only one if they can name any at all, certainly a tiny percent can name 5 or more off the top of their head. When thats the cards you are dealt its gonna make it hard to be a 112lb main eventer I feel.