Comments Thread For: Golovkin vs. Eubank Deal Hangs in The Balance Over Sky Money

[Butt stuff]

Very short sighted from Sr. Hopefully he burns bridges through doing this so him & his son are banished to Dave with Haye.

Just get the fight done already.

[taes]

That dumb**** English seems to be getting himself a right old reputation for being a c*** in negotiations and seems like he's at it again - does he really think that SKY is to blame if it doesn't happen, no-one's believing that. We all know the real story behind this.

[TheFrog]

Canelo, like he said he would.....

Golovkin Would Fight Ward at 168 and Canelo at 154.....
http://thaboxingvoice.com/golovkin-a...4/15398?var=no

LOL! that's what I thought!
Golovkin wants to unify the middleweight division and the only fights people can come up with for him to lose are to have him face someone bigger or to drain him. At 160 it's not happening

[BoxingIsGreat]

This is a good fight. Make it!

[BoxingIsGreat]

I like Eubank Jr. His dad, on the other hand, seems to think they are Mayweather. Going at it in the most aggressive way possible, too, in public. Not cool. Chill out!

[Citizen Koba]

GGG should be ashamed of taking this fight. There are many opponents he could have fought but fighting Eubanks is disgraceful.

Whom exactly? BJS and Jacobs are the only two fights at MW that are widely considered more significant than Eubanks and neither of them seem particularly keen right now.

[Ake-Dawg]

Sounds like Hearn and Loeffler agreed to terms extremely favorable to the fighters and Sky may not accept those terms. This is the negative side of fighters being network free agents. Golovkin has a deal with HBO so his ppv cut is set. Will Sky pay Eubank Jr. like an earner or just a Golovkin can.

[boxingitis]

Andre Ward didn't make Chad Dawson do ****; Dawson saw what fighting Andre Ward could mean to him, Chad Dawson went on national TV and stated that he was ready to make 168 for that fight, and Andre Ward and his camp held Chad Dawson to his word.

After he and his camp talked that **** about fighting anyone 154-168, was thirsting after Carl Froch and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, so Andre Ward said "I'll fight you at 168"; Golovkin ducked out of that situation.

With Golovkin no longer talking that "fight anyone 154-168" nonsense, notice how folks have largely left him alone; anyone that's still talking about fighting Golovkin is happily ready to fight him at his preferred 160lbs (Golovkin's camp thought they lucked into something that they could trick Alvarez into giving them an extra 5 pounds on the weight, but Alvarez deaded that nonsense).

If you can point to a single current 168lber who's thirsting after a fight with Golovkin, cong**** lol.

Golovkin's topped out at basically being able to pay out $500k to his opponent for a show where he's feature guy on; if you can point to any super middleweight who $500k would be life-changing money for them, you've got the chance of seeing a guy who may be willing to drag their bodies down from 168 for a fight.

Dashon Johnson (BoxRec #54 super middleweight) would fight Golovkin at whatever weight he wanted for $500k; doubt that any super middleweight higher than that even bothers with Golovkin.

Why the fk would he move up or down to fight someone less popular than him for one title, Ex Lara or Zurdo Ramirez. The only one more popular here in the US is Canelo and he doesnt hold any titles. He has four titles, so the only ones that made sense money wise was Chavez Jr and Carl Froch, he only had 2 at the time. Andrew Ward is great and would probably beat GGG at 168, but doesnt bring any reward for a big risk. When GGG said he would fight 154 to 168 he was not know that much and only had the WBA and IBO titles, he was more willing to take risk. Now he is the WBC WBA IBF IBO Champion he doesnt have to do **** for others. Canelo doesnt bring enough money for him to take a risk for 155, plus is 4 fking Middleweight titles on the line, it should be at 160, otherwise just get rid of them. GGG and Canelo both lost a great opportunity to make good money because they dont want to loose or are just copying May/ Pac . I dont know the real story behind Ward and GGG, and I believe none of us does.

[HeroBando]

Sounds like Hearn and Loeffler agreed to terms extremely favorable to the fighters and Sky may not accept those terms. This is the negative side of fighters being network free agents. Golovkin has a deal with HBO so his ppv cut is set. Will Sky pay Eubank Jr. like an earner or just a Golovkin can.

Sounds like a lot of wishful thinking. Why would sky do that? When Ggg calls your bluff it's time to change huge TV networks business practices

[Sledgeweather17]

GGG should move up to 161 lbs and force the SMW fight him at that weight for their titles, or He should force them to come down to 160 like ANDRE WARD made CHAD DAWSON come down to his weight.

Chad Dawson is the one who who challenged Ward and said that he would fight him at either 168 or 175. You can't complain when you yourself directly gave the other fighter a choice.