Comments Thread For: Loeffler Confirms: Golovkin Would Have Fought Degale at 168

[Metho_4u]

...wrong....Ward was lying by not telling the whole truth...Ward is only talking through his hat....Ward called out GGG one hour after it was announced that GGG had a contract to fight Lemieux.....this can be checked out for a fact......second of all GGG's team had been trying to come to an agreement for two years with Ward....the problem was first Ward was in trouble with law suits with Goossen...they were suing each other....Goosen won the lawsuit three times.....then Ward signed with Roc Nation....the first thing Roc Nation said was that Ward needed two tune up fights before they would let Ward fight GGG...then Ward fought one fight at 172 pounds....GGG and his team got tired of waiting for Andre Ward to make up his mind what he wanted to do...then look at the numbers....Ward fought in his own home town and he could not put 4000 people in the arena....Ward fought at the Citizens centre and there were only 3000 people....every single word I have put here can be checked out by anybody simply by looking at the transcripts....and if that is not enough for you then here is a video by Tom Loeffler.....either Loeffler is lying or Ward is lying....only problem with that is that the transcripts will back up Loeffler and not Ward....http://www.fighthype.com/news/article23436.html?

Yeah, because Loeffler has been so honest up until now....

"If the pay-per-view for the Lemieux fight is what we think it should be, Gennady would deserve more than 50% against Ward, considering Ward has barely fought outside of California," Loeffler said. "So it’s unreasonable to ask us to commit to that right now."

Loeffler said his emailed reply to Ward’s camp was that if Ward was still at 168 pounds in early 2017, Golovkin would be pleased to consider the bout at that point.

When Golovkin first began to fight on HBO, Loeffler said, a list of 20 potential opponents included Ward (28-0, 15 knockouts), with Golovkin trainer Abel Sanchez touting his fighter as willing to fight anyone between 154 and 168 pounds in a reference directed at Ward.

But as that interest went unrequited, Loeffler said he was approached by Ward following the Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight in May and was asked to stop referencing Ward. Loeffler said he and Sanchez agreed to discuss Ward only if asked about him by reporters.

"If you don’t want to fight a fighter, think it’s not your style, just say that," Ward said on the video. "The truth is, they never wanted the fight. The reality is we offered him a fight six, seven months ago, before we knew he had a pay-per-view coming up ... 50%. He turned it down in five minutes. The short and long of it is they never wanted the fight."

[M Bison]

Stop suckin d!ck loser

The only loser is the guys over in America who are too scared to travel Andre Ward you know?
Turning down a career high payday because he didn't wanna get on a plane and travel to fight Carl Froch lol!!

[MrRolltide91]

Yea right.....

[Metho_4u]

The only loser is the guys over in America who are too scared to travel Andre Ward you know?
Turning down a career high payday because he didn't wanna get on a plane and travel to fight Carl Froch lol!!

That's it? That's all you can come up with? Do they even have arenas over there where your caveman hero comes from?

[Mr. Philadel]

So you were open to fighting a world champ at 168, but instead of asking for that fight you just accepted a fight with a welterweight instead? Stop talking man, it's beyond embarrassing now.

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[Metho_4u]

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Guy is a complete joke man, nothing else to say

[M Bison]

That's it? That's all you can come up with? Do they even have arenas over there where your caveman hero comes from?

We sure do, we have some of the best stadiums over in Britain and we fill out much larger stadiums for boxing fights than most of the Yanks do on a regular basis
If you followed boxing you'd know us Brits are propaaa fans of the sport only rivaled by the Mexicans and Puerto Rican.

[M Bison]

So you were open to fighting a world champ at 168, but instead of asking for that fight you just accepted a fight with a welterweight instead? Stop talking man, it's beyond embarrassing now.

You fight what you are given offer to they're simply saying If DeGale was the option they'd have accepted it but simply put it wasn't offered, embarrassing how?
On such a short notice I also doubt DeGale would have been willing to risk his unification match-up with an easier fight in Badou Jack.
Kell Brook will likely prove a lot of you wrong, I ain't his biggest fan but atleast he does something when he says he's gonna do it unlike Eubank Jr, Canelo and Saunders.

[MDPopescu]

People would've crucified Golovkin for fighting Brook no matter what. It is what it is - a stay busy fight/money grab. Golovkin's making a career high payday for this fight and it's going to open doors for more fights in the UK.

If Brook/Golovkin leads to DeGale/Golovkin then I'm all good. DeGale is on top of my wishlist to fight Golovkin.

Word on the curb is DeGale vs Jack has gone to the Bermuda Triangle. #boxing

— Raging Babe (@RagingBabe) July 25, 2016

... It is very likely that DeGale would not take the Golovkin fight, to begin with...

[Metho_4u]

... It is very likely that DeGale would not take the Golovkin fight, to begin with...

Well, we don't know, because it wasn't offered