Comments Thread For: Liam Smith Destroys Radosevic in Two; Canelo Showdown is Next?

[JUNIABOY]

So people aren't allowed to assume Golovkin didn't want to fight Ward because 'we don't know what happened at the negotiation table', despite it looking pretty clear.

Yet your entire post about why the fight didn't happen is based on an assumption you have about what happened at the negotiation table?

I gave you my reasoning of what I think happened in that situation with the available information. RocNation & Ward talk a lot, but release so very little information. And Ward gets less & less credible every time he brings up GGG. We know what GGG's team has been doing because Sanchez & Loeffler are laughably too honest when they answer questions. You can debate me on what actually happened. At the end of the day, the only fact that I can hang my hat on is that Ward signed a contract with HBO, which altogether blocked a Ward/GGG fight from happening any time soon. That's the best thing I can go on...& if we read between the lines, it makes Ward's call-outs of GGG even less credible.

[JUNIABOY]

There was no negotiation table and no walk out by K2 after 5 mins, because no negotiations took place on the offer Roc sent to Loeffler.

What happened was that Loeffler recieved the offer via email and responded to it by telling Roc that if Ward wanted to fight GGG at 168 for a 50/50 split he should get back to them after he'd finished his tune-ups and Golovkin had finished his business at 160.

Golovkin already had a contract with Cotto/Canelo and the WBC covering the same time frame as the one Ward was asking him to sign. Ward wanted him to sign a contract agreeing to fight in the summer of 2016, which was the same time Golovkin was hoping to get his shot at the WBC MW belt. He couldn't go with both options at the same time!

The meeting between GGG, Ward, and HBO took place in 2014. What happened then was that Golovkin told HBO he was ready to fight Ward, but Ward wasn't ready.

Well, that makes Ward backers look worse then if it's put that way. And I did read about the supposed offer being some time in the future at an unknown weight. No one is ****** enough to sign a contract like that. You're preaching to the choir. I'm not giving Ward & RocNation a free pass on this...that's for sure.