After Pirog destroyed Jacobs, GGG signed to fight Pirog. How wasn't that a risk?

[_Maxi]

does wilder get credit for Povetkin? No

the fight didnt happen, all it proves is that they were willing to fight

nothing more or less

the risks start when you ENTER THE RING, NOT SIGNING A CONTRACT

Poor midget...

[therealpugilist]

Poor midget...

typical response from a know nothing...keep up your damage control schedule

[bojangles1987]

Anyone who says Golovkin isn't willing to take risks is either hating or has no idea how 95% of his career has unfolded. Avoiding Ward before and fighting Brook now does not change that Golovkin has tried many, many times to get good fighters in the ring and they have avoided him. He is fighting Brook after much better fights were made impossible. He's one of the most avoided fighters in the sport.

We can be objective and both criticize Golovkin for this awful fight while also recognizing that he has been screwed over a lot.

[bojangles1987]

He also signed to fight Andy Lee I believe.

Someone's father died.

Golovkin's father.

After the Lee fight was canceled and he came back from the mourning period, he almost landed a Chavez fight at 168. Top Rank screwed that up, if I recall correctly.

[therealpugilist]

anyone who says golovkin isn't willing to take risks is either hating or has no idea how 95% of his career has unfolded. Avoiding ward before and fighting brook now does not change that golovkin has tried many, many times to get good fighters in the ring and they have avoided him. He is fighting brook after much better fights were made impossible. He's one of the most avoided fighters in the sport.

We can be objective and both criticize golovkin for this awful fight while also recognizing that he has been screwed over a lot.

the risks begin in the ring....not board rooms and signing contracts...you get no credit for signing a contract...its like signing a contract for a loan and not paying it off...you get no credit

the risk taking begins when the first bell sounds


ya'll be reaching.

[MASTERBX]

If you would just accept that lil g is a coward all of his actions will become transparent.

[aldo5408]

Golovkin's father.

After the Lee fight was canceled and he came back from the mourning period, he almost landed a Chavez fight at 168. Top Rank screwed that up, if I recall correctly.

Was that around the time Lee still had his belt? So it would have been a unification correct.?

[bojangles1987]

Was that around the time Lee still had his belt? So it would have been a unification correct.?

He didn't have a belt then, but it was shortly after that that Lee stepped in to fight Korobov after Quillin dropped his belt. So he was a beltholder later that year.

[Eff Pandas]

Anyone undefeated & dominate like GGG gets upped to the god level for expectations & get criticized & scrutinized in ways non-exceptional boxers never would. This happens to most guys who had a nice streak of dominance & that sexy undefeated record, Tyson, Mayweather, Trinidad, RJJ, etc & so on. Now thats on GGG too. Its a pretty basic thing in boxing historically since records have been as important are they are today anyway.

[aldo5408]

Poor midget...

Hey any updates on pirog?