Comments Thread For: Golovkin: I'd Rather Get Saunders Next, Means More Than Canelo!

[HeroBando]

Maybe you're right, but I think that if HBO thought a Lara fight would help propel GGG to superstardom they would have made more effort to make it. Perhaps they don't want to risk GGG looking bad or maybe they just don't think the majority of their viewership would really give a damn, I just don't know. Like I say I'd like to see Golovkin fight Lara but for whatever reason HBO and K2 don't seem to see things the same way.

Dude don't get pulled into that guys web of ******ity. Laras manager said Loeffler approached Haymon about Lara, then said "Lara commands a lot of money, this fight won't be easy to make"

[Citizen Koba]

Dude don't get pulled into that guys web of ******ity. Laras manager said Loeffler approached Haymon about Lara, then said "Lara commands a lot of money, this fight won't be easy to make"

Didn't know that an approach had been made, but I was aware that Lara's purse would likely be an issue. The guy's a good boxer but sadly can't draw flies to ****.

[Scipio2009]

Maybe you're right, but I think that if HBO thought a Lara fight would help propel GGG to superstardom they would have made more effort to make it. Perhaps they don't want to risk GGG looking bad or maybe they just don't think the majority of their viewership would really give a damn, I just don't know. Like I say I'd like to see Golovkin fight Lara but for whatever reason HBO and K2 don't seem to see things the same way.

That's the risk that you have to take, though; Alvarez took the risk, didn't look spectacular in the fight, but got through the fight with a W and the boxing world got to say "Alvarez beat Lara, after putting himself in there with Floyd, beating Trout, and angling for tough fights since trying to fight Paul Williams".

The Mexican/Latino fans still adore him for what he represents for Mexico, but that love is undergirded by a resume that has the respect of the hardcore boxing audience; say what you want about the guy, but no one with any sense is going to tell you that Saul Alvarez can't fight.

Golovkin fighting Lara would give the boxing audience the chance to see if that same thing is true (Olympic achievements aside, Golovkin's been a pro ten years, yet has yet to fight anyone worth fighting, with the arguable exceptions of Martin Murray, Daniel Geale, and Kell Brook).

K2 is being ultra-cautious with how they move Golovkin; they seem to inherently know that Golovkin getting exposed at this point basically kills off any potential of Golovkin ever being a star. So, they've chosen with trying to talk people into Golovkin being a star.

Sad, but that's the bet they've made.

[Hougigo]

OMG, he didn't say Canelo next!
He scared, he don't want to fight him!

Oh wait, didn't GBP and Canelo say September 2017 at the earliest?