Comments Thread For: Golovkin-Wade Registers As Most-Watched Cable TV Fight of 2016

[Snoop Frog]

You're thankful as a fan for that fight?

Irony. The guy in your profile pic put on a snoozefest his last time out. You must really know good fights.

[BennyBlanco]

It's a shame so many people watched a matchup that should never have been made.

Wade is a ShoBox-level fighter. What a mismatch.

[Scipio2009]

No, you're just ****** and can't do the math. Average ticket price was above 200 $, so it's no rocket science.

K2 added 4500 $30 tickets to the original 12k-seat setup. How in the blue hell do you get to $200 being the average ticket price, lol

[TheCell8]

Ward took actual dollars out of his pocket to make sure a fight got made, lol.

Bute, thinking he was the big **** at 168, chose to duck the Super Six, thinking that he'd cash in with a showdown against the Super Six champ (without having to fight anyone) and Ward would have none of it.

And the only reason that Ward is even talking about Golovkin is because Golovkin and his camp ran their mouths about whooping every fighter 154-168(Sanchez) and were chasing fights with super middleweights with no concern about fighting at 168; the 168 king steps forward, wanting to dead all this noise about Golovkin "whooping every fighter 154-168", and Golovkin's camp immediately runs to "we can't make the fight at 168 anymore (only to now be fine with fighting at 168 for Gilberto Ramirez).

gtfoh

I'm talking about big fights. I don't care that he paid Paul Smith to show up because he couldn't find an opponent.

You can spin it any way you want, but the Bute fight would have been huge. Ward came up with a laughable excuse for not fighting him. That's a fight that Ward likely would have won and made a lot of money in the process, and he would have gotten the IBF belt. He tried to play hard ball and failed miserably.

The Golovkin situation parallels.

He also didn't entertain the idea of a rematch with Froch in England.

So what we have here is a guy who only wants to fight in US, which there is not problem with that, wants to fight in his home town and wants to be the A-Side in every fight and is unwilling to surrender anything to make big fights happen.

When you have a fighter that deluded it makes it almost impossible to make big fights.

[DLX]

It's a shame so many people watched a matchup that should never have been made.

Wade is a ShoBox-level fighter. What a mismatch.

Blame the IBF for making Wade the mandatory. Taureno Johnson was actually the mandatory before he got hurt.

[BrometheusBob.]

FYI Beyonce got 787,000 viewers for HBO

Beyonce is a bum

Needs to step up her level of competition

[bigdunny1]

Beyonce is a bum

Needs to step up her level of competition

LMAO I'm shocked it didn't do higher but I posted it because some people around here were saying GGG only did this rating because HBO aired Beyonce before their boxing. Truth is Boxing pulled way more ratings for HBO then Beyonce did.

[bigjavi973]

spin it all you want. Bottom line is Ward is a Bay area kid his whole life, Olympic gold medalist, fought most of his career in Oakland, and from a Bay area population base of over 7 million people he cant even get 10,000 of them to support his events.

Meanwhile, a guy who barely speaks english, only having been properly promoted for the past 36 months does 16,000+ in LA.

Ward must be incensed when he sees these numbers lol

And you don't think that "mexican style" that they are riding isn't the main reason? Lots & lots of spanish/hispanics in LA btw

but then lilg's ppv numbers were terrible

[Sweet Pea 50]

Beyonce is a bum

Needs to step up her level of competition

Beyoncé is fighting his alter ego Sasha.

In Russia.

It's over.

[OnePunch]

And you don't think that "mexican style" that they are riding isn't the main reason? Lots & lots of spanish/hispanics in LA btw

but then lilg's ppv numbers were terrible

what are Wards PPV numbers like?

oh, wait.......