Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter: If Kell Brook is Serious, We Can Discuss It

[batista84]

Circumstances are bringing these 2 together, a good fight

Get out of here...............

[batista84]

The people that were saying he was too small and criticising Canelo for fighting Khan will be defending this.

They already doing it.

[SteveM]

A lot of people on these boards are saying Golovkin should move up and fight the champs at 168. 2 of those champs are fighting tomorrow yet there is almost no interest in them or their fights. Much more interest in this supposedly ****** mismatch still a week away. Golovkin should stay at mw for as long as there is no money fight at 168. There is probably more money to be made fighting Kell Brook than Badou Jack and/or DeGale.

[turnedup]

"Golovkin's promoter" not "Golovkin Said"

Give it a few days and people will be claiming the latter said it instead.

[batista84]

so all of a sudden a discussion about weight is on the table when it comes to brook? this clown is willing to go down in weight for everybody except canelo. lmao. ****in fraud

The truth is that GGG is afraid that he could lose to Canelo @155, @160 I got no doubts GGG beats Canelo but @155 we could see another thing.

[batista84]

April 27, 2016:

Hopkins believes that if Golovkin truly wants to mix it up with Alvarez as much as has been suggested, he’d monitor his diet and training regimen in such a way that he could and would get down to the 155-pound catch weight that Canelo demanded, and is getting, for his May 9 defense against Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) at the new T-Mobile Center in Vegas. Alvarez has said that all future challengers will have to consent to a similar arrangement if they want to be given a spot on his dance card. But Loeffler believes a middleweight championship fight should be fought at the middleweight limit of 160 pounds, and he and Golovkin consider that point to be non-negotiable...

But Hopkins knows a thing or two about leverage, and as a key figure in the Golden Boy hierarchy he doesn’t want Golovkin’s inexorable march toward his record to include a conquest of Alvarez, 25, who is the linchpin to the company’s long-term success. If the big fight happens, and Hopkins hopes it will, all well and good. Still, the fight before the fight takes place behind closed doors where contractual matters are finalized. If there is a possible parallel between Alvarez-Golovkin, Hopkins sees it as the April 6, 1987, pairing of Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, with Canelo cast in the role of the terms-dictating Leonard.

“If Steph Curry don’t play in the playoffs, his team is probably not going to repeat as the champion,” Hopkins said. “Canelo is like Steph Curry to Golden Boy. Of course we’re going to position him in such a way to maximize all his assets. But in saying that, you got to remember one thing: We don’t need `Triple G.’ He needs Canelo. At the end of the day, the fighter that holds all the cards would be a fool not to use that.

“Look, Oscar has or might make some decisions he might be criticized for – no, he will be criticized for – but so what? He is in the business of being a promoter. As a fighter, he dared to be great. As a promoter, he can’t dare to be ******. He has to make the right business move for his fighter, and the fact is that `Triple G’ stands to gain more from winning that fight. Of course, if Canelo wins, he becomes even more of a megastar than he already is. But he’s a megastar already...

“There will be a dialogue, a negotiation, and when it happens `Triple G’ won’t be operating from a position of strength. Look, I can remember when I couldn’t get the fights I wanted for a lot of reasons. Some of it was political. Some of it was personal. When push comes to shove, though, you do what you have to do.

“When I was the (light heavyweight) champion, I had to take off five pounds to make the Winky Wright fight, the Kelly Pavlik fight. I had a catch weight fight with Oscar when I had three middleweight championship belts and Bob Arum (then De La Hoya’s promoter) said the only way that fight would ever happen is if I agreed to come in at no more than 158 pounds. I could have *****ed and hollered about sweating off the extra weight, but I wanted the fight to happen. Was the money great? Yes. But I wanted to fight the best, and if I beat Oscar, God only knows what could happen after that. And, well, we know now what happened next...”

But the devil is always in the details, isn’t it? It just might be that the most-anticipated middleweight unification clash since Hopkins-Felix Trinidad in 2001 hinges on the loss or addition of a few precious pounds of flesh by whichever champion comes to the conclusion that making the bout at a less-than-optimal weight is far better than not making it at all.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...most-happened-

Now, that's a hell of an interview

[Robbie Barrett]

"Golovkin's promoter" not "Golovkin Said"

Give it a few days and people will be claiming the latter said it instead.

Same difference, Golovkin does as his promoter says.

[turnedup]

Same difference, Golovkin does as his promoter says.

As do all of the boxers currently actively licensed...and not the same difference. A man saying something and someone else who he works with saying something does not mean they both agree on the statement.

[xhiddenx87]

To me this fight proves nothing, we all know brook is gettin destroyed....

Please feed Gennady with some Jacobs or Degeale!

[eco1]

for real, are chimpanzees posting on this site.

Anyway GGG does something is wrong.

On the other side, i am tired of team GGG and i am a fan of GGG.