Comments Thread For: Brook To Golovkin: I Look Forward To Feeling Your Power!

[Sid-Knee]

So Hearn couldn't afford the fight just like Loeffler can't afford the Saunders or Jacobs fight. So why is it acceptable reason for Brook not to fight Vargas but not an acceptable reason for Jacobs or Saunders not to fight GGG? Brook is getting what Saunders and Jacobs wanted to fight GGG. GGG is the one that's tied to an exclusive HBO deal so he has to make the fight.

You can't justify Vargas getting over 2 Mill no matter which way you cut it. So stop playing ******.

[Pozomuro]

Sheffield's IBF welterweight titlist Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) has told the naysayers that he will be bigger, stronger and fitter when he steps up to middleweight to challenge WBC World, Super World WBA, IBF World and IBO middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32 early) at London's O2 Arena on 10.

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Same thing Khan said when he fought Ginger, and we all know what happened.

[Sid-Knee]

Why is this an acceptable excuse for Brook but not for Jacobs or Saunders? Vargas was good with his purse. It was Hearn's responsibility to satisfy Brook. Why would Hearn even allow the process to go that far if he didn't have Brook signed on? The Vargas fight was agreed to a month before the Brook-GGG fight was announced. This isn't the first time Brook has pulled out of a fight, Rios, Chaves, and Bradley.

Why do you Americans keep pushing your lies???

Chavez - Brook hurt his rib in sparring so had to pull the fight. They tried to reschedule the fight but he had another mandatory come up. He was out of the ring for 10 months due to the injury.

Rios - He was the one to pull the fight, not Brook. The money was right, but he had a problem with the rematch clause. Hearn later went back with a contract without the clause but Rios still walked away.

When did he pull out of a Bradley fight????

[kafkod]

Sr trying to become a boxing promoter at the expense of everyone else is not negotiating. "Crazy" and "******" would be more appropriate titles.

Lol. What he was basically trying to do was promote the fight using Eddie Hearn's money and connections, and give the proceeds to his son.

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Call me crazy.. but...!

[kafkod]

I get that its financially beneficial to all parties but to go from Saunders, to Canelo, to Eubanks to Brook its just like the blind leading the blind. I'd much rather at this point have seen them call Saunders bluff by sweetening the pie than to see this fight happen. Public perception is just as important as purse in this era of the sport.

The public are not knowledgable boxing fans though. Most mainstream sports journalists arn't either! Looking past this fight ... if it goes down well with Sky Sports customers and general sports fans in the UK, there will be a lot better chance of seeing GGG fight Saunders over here, and maybe DeGale or Groves too. What those match-ups need in order to make them a reality is money. The UK PPV income from Sky could provide it. It doesn't look like that's going to happen with HBO in the States.

[turnedup]

It's called "negotiating".....

But Lil G decided he rather fight a WW instead...

Sr trying to become a boxing promoter at the expense of everyone else is not negotiating. "Crazy" and "******" would be more appropriate titles.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Vargas was good with his purse, but after Brexit the value of the £ fell. And though Vargas' pay, in BPS, didn't change, in $$, it wouldn't have been worth as much, so he wanted Hearn to up his purse accordingly.

So Hearn couldn't afford the fight just like Loeffler can't afford the Saunders or Jacobs fight. So why is it acceptable reason for Brook not to fight Vargas but not an acceptable reason for Jacobs or Saunders not to fight GGG? Brook is getting what Saunders and Jacobs wanted to fight GGG. GGG is the one that's tied to an exclusive HBO deal so he has to make the fight.

[turnedup]

Golovkin stands to double his highest ever purse for this fight. What promoter in their right mind would turn down an offer like that for a fight that their man is almost certain to win?

I get that its financially beneficial to all parties but to go from Saunders, to Canelo, to Eubanks to Brook its just like the blind leading the blind. I'd much rather at this point have seen them call Saunders bluff by sweetening the pie than to see this fight happen. Public perception is just as important as purse in this era of the sport.

[talz]

What a moron. As soon as GGG clocks him he's going to sleep.