Golovkin is the New Star

[big_james10]

Canelo did almost DOUBLE the ratings GGG did for HBO 2.1m viewers to watch him fight Kirkland on HBO and almost 10X as many PPVs when both fought last year on HBO PPV. GGG struggles to sell out basketball arenas while Canelo sells out Baseball Stadiums. GGG's highest attendance is like 20k while Canelo has twice had about 40K in attendance. GGG's highest live gate (tickets revenue was 2m) Canelo did 12.8mil against Cotto hell Canelo did 3.5m against Kirkland and that was a stay busy fight! He isn't even close to Canelo not ticket sales, PPV, attendance.

GGG is slightly better performer then Kovalev and Ward it's marginal. But is nowhere near Canelo.

You forgot to mention that the Alvarez/Kirkland fight followed the replay of the Mayweather/Pacquaio fight, so the numbers are skewed. Neither Alvarez nor GGG is as big of a star as their worshippers on this site claim.

[PulpFriction]

Ha golovkin ran from Ward you racist loser. Golovkin fans are all racists who call people racist names online. Go shoot up a church you coward.

How is possible that you haven't been banned?

[Daddy T]

He is certainly the most talked about fighter on here and in other boxing forums anyway. He is also attracting a lot of alt hater accounts etc so that is a good sign for his popularity too. Not sure about casuals but for the more hardcore fans he is certainly the new star as you say

[Robbie Barrett]

You forgot to mention that the Alvarez/Kirkland fight followed the replay of the Mayweather/Pacquaio fight, so the numbers are skewed. Neither Alvarez nor GGG is as big of a star as their worshippers on this site claim.

The Mayweather-Pacquiao replay did 1.1 mil viewers.

[Nubia]

First of all, you got the endorsement all wrong. It's not Nike, it's Jordan. How can he be a superstar even when his diehard casual fans like yourself don't even know the facts surrounding him and his "popularity" in the first place?

97K PPV buys showed the level of his popularity.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

First of all, you got the endorsement all wrong. It's not Nike, it's Jordan. How can he be a superstar even when his diehard casual fans like yourself don't even know the facts surrounding him and his "popularity" in the first place?

97K PPV buys showed the level of his popularity.

Obviously, he's the most talked about.

[Nubia]

Obviously, he's the most talked about.

Talked about on a boxing forum, yes. But outside of that I don't know anyone who even knows who he is.

Andre Ward threads get tons and tons of replies on this forum but that doesn't make him super popular.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

First of all, you got the endorsement all wrong. It's not Nike, it's Jordan. How can he be a superstar even when his diehard casual fans like yourself don't even know the facts surrounding him and his "popularity" in the first place?

97K PPV buys showed the level of his popularity.

Omowale Tribe? Meaning the Yoruba name given to Malcolm X? And your video is Leonard knocking out a white guy(who else would it be)?

I see why you're not a fan.

But isn't Wilder on the control panel instead of Ward?

[Nubia]

Omowale Tribe? Meaning the Yoruba name given to Malcolm X? And your video is Leonard knocking out a white guy(who else would it be)?

I see why you're not a fan.

But isn't Wilder on the control panel instead of Ward?

So, instead of an actual response you've resorted to deflection.

Gotcha.

[-Kev-]

He's good no doubt about that, best at MW, and top 10 in the sport right now. But his starpower is exaggerated. Selling out $30-400 dollar tickets and doing 97k on PPV is not an indication that he's the new Golden Boy or anything like that. He may never even get there because of his age.

He's just the good fighter that fans want to see current superstars face, he's not a superstar himself. More like the thorn of the superstars. He'll never be one himself even with all the endorsements, he can't do 300-350k with lesser fighters like DLH, Mayweather, Canelo could.