Comments Thread For: WBC Prez Warns Canelo: Fight Golovkin Next or Lose The Title

[OnePunch]

Cotto didn't pay step aside fee. That's one of the reasons he stripped of wbc belt.

Cotto indeed paid $800,000 step aside to GGG. He didnt pay the $300,000 sanction fee the WBC wanted, and thats why he got stripped.....

[El Malo.]

And golovkin should be dropped as the mandatory if he yet again decides to take step aside money like he did with Cotto. Everyone involved in this situation makes me sick.

I agree. 3G needs to either move up in weight at the end of the year or stay fighting nobody's until Canelo decides to give them a payday probably at the end of 2017 or summer 2018. Canelo needs to drop the belts and stay fighting at 154 or his g@ 155 catch weight bullcr@p.

[Deevel916]

Canelo is going to give the boxing world the double barrel and say okay heres your damn belt, I'm bigger than any belt out there, I make more money than about 95% percent of boxers per fight, and love me or hate me i put asses in seats and I sell pay per view very well.

So GGG and the WBC here's your belt. See you down the road.

I really hope I'm wrong but Canelo is starting to care less and less about what people think of him.

Canelo vs Pac in September.

Mexican fans arent like Floyd fans. They want their fighters to be be balls to the wall warriors and take on all comers. If Canelo flakes out his fanbase will start to fade.

[Scipio2009]

PAC just made 20m for Bradley. He'd want a lot more for Canelo, and this fight probably doesn't pay for itself

Anyway PAC is not fighting in Sept. He's got his Senate campaign or whatever

Pacquiao made $20m for the fight, on an event that loss money (as the PPV bombed and the live gate doing less than $7m). The economic conversation changes drastically.

MGM Resorts paid $16m to host Cotto-Alvarez, packed in the bodies for the Kirkland fight, and has already had his own three headline shows in Las Vegas (with the Josesito Lopez fight happening before Alvarez's starpower starting to launch).

If Alvarez-Khan ends up doing a sizable gate($7m isn't an improbable number; especially in 20k-seat arena at a $150-$1500 price point), and the PPV does good business(600k PPV buys), Alvarez and Pacquiao stand on near equal footing.

With Top Rank unlikely to want to lose their hat again on another fight where they pay Pacquiao $20m, I doubt that Alvarez guarantees him anywhere near that to fight; $4m plus a 40/60 split on fighter revenues on the PPV beyond 300k buys makes sense.

[HeroBando]

Pacquiao made $20m for the fight, on an event that loss money (as the PPV bombed and the live gate doing less than $7m). The economic conversation changes drastically.

MGM Resorts paid $16m to host Cotto-Alvarez, packed in the bodies for the Kirkland fight, and has already had his own three headline shows in Las Vegas (with the Josesito Lopez fight happening before Alvarez's starpower starting to launch).

If Alvarez-Khan ends up doing a sizable gate($7m isn't an improbable number; especially in 20k-seat arena at a $150-$1500 price point), and the PPV does good business(600k PPV buys), Alvarez and Pacquiao stand on near equal footing.

With Top Rank unlikely to want to lose their hat again on another fight where they pay Pacquiao $20m, I doubt that Alvarez guarantees him anywhere near that to fight; $4m plus a 40/60 split on fighter revenues on the PPV beyond 300k buys makes sense.

OK so that's not gonna get him out of retirement. Next option Margarito?

[Scipio2009]

Question:
Do you guys actually think that Canelo cares about having a title belt?

No, he does not. The fact that it is "the green belt" is why Alvarez is even indulging in this song/dance.

[Scipio2009]

OK so that's not gonna get him out of retirement. Next option Margarito?

Then Canelo fights whomever he wants at 155; see if Billy Joe Saunders has any interest or look at making the Cotto rematch. If both fall through, Alvarez takes a placeholder fight at 155(against a guy like Gabriel Rosado), or heads down to 154 to fight Liam Smith.

Counting the Mexico TV money, plus site fee money from the venue, and the HBO/HBO PPV money, Alvarez is likely making a baseline of $7m-$8m regardless of who he fights.

[techliam]

The WBC's reputation is at stake here, even if it has lost a lot of prestige over the years. I'm surprised more media outlets haven't picked up on this saga, but I guess sanctioning bodies like to hand out money a bit too much..

[hitking]

He wants the belts he let canelo have his fight with cotto on good faith they would face him next and as I said that was signed with the WBC ....now canelo looks like he is about to turn yellow and make a Uturn and your blaming golovkin for this ....now this past weekend fight no matter how easy it was for him was a mandatory put on his by the IBF and it was taureano who pulled out from the fight and that's why wade got the shot....this was always a fight before the fight and now your making it sound that golovkin sought this fight out...no he didn't he had to fight him or lose his belt and golovkin wants all the belts......no one wants to fight golovkin your right about that but golovkin has every right to win all the belts and become the undisputed middleweight champion of the world....it's all the other f@ckers in his division that are avoiding him not his avoiding them....as I said let him get the belts then he can turn his attention on another division and go for belts there and if he don't go for the tougher fights in another division because he can't get a decent challenge at his own weight then I will be the first one to say his resume is not on a par with the likes of leonard,Hearns,Jones or duran ......but for now let the man do his thing and get his belts...our conversation is over on this matter now

If you think belts are what motivates GGG, I got some swamp land in LA that I'd like to sell you. If belts were talking is motivation, he would already be the WBC champ. If belts were his motivation, he wouldn't constantly talk about fighting Floyd. Belts only became his motivation when Ward came calling. And he's clinging to it now because is validates fightinf bums in the eyes of love sick, blind fux like yourself. Outside of Canelo, the other beltholders in the division are crap. And these mandatories that these ABC groups dig up have long been a joke in the world of boxing. Fighters like Roy Jones have been criticized for fighting pathetic mandatories like the bull**** GGG did this past weekend. And I remember a day, not too long ago, when fighters were applauded for ditching belts instead of fighting bull**** mandatories like Wade. But you have a fambase that's scared to death that their new flavor of the month ain't legit. So y'all try and glorify this bum of the month this joke has been on since landing his goofy look'n muthaf.ucka landed on American soil. Its pathetic. Only thing more pathetic is lame fux like yourself that get off on it. Do everybody a favor and shoot yourself right in the f.uck'n face. Or one better. Have someone take a 357, put it to the back of your head, and blow your f.uck'n face off. That way nobody has to look at your f.ucked up ass laying in a box b1tch.

[richardt]

Glad to see Sulaiman jr doesn't bend over and let Canelo do what he want from behind like Sr. would do. I bet no one can name more than two fighters in the history of boxing who were middleweight champs that were afraid of 160 pound fighters!