FACT or FICTION: Those who obsess over GGG not moving up in weight...

[M Bison]

Brook was a MW? Brook had a MW belt? If not you can shut up n stop making excuses.

Brook weighed in as a middleweight he was the same weight as a middleweight on the night of the fight too stop grasping at straws pathetically trying to demean something If anything Brook was bigger than GGG.
Did Kelly need to have an extra 10lbs like he usually does have over all of his victims to win?

Love reading the excuses though, Kell can't beat someone his own size shows how special he really was.

[Graz]

He may not have any other option but to move up if no one else in his division has the balls to fight him. That Eubanks/Saunders press interview was very telling. When Eubanks was posturing about fighting GGG. Saunders laughed and said "You want to fight GGG? Golovkin would beat us both on the same night." And he meant it so I'll be surprised if a fight between he or Eubanks with GGG will ever happen. Jacobs might if the money is right but talk is cheap.

[hugh grant]

I'd like to see him move up because I think he will get the fights at 168 atleast, however there is a large group here that just want him to lose. Similar to another group that just wanted to see Floyd lose. I've been entertained by them un spooling like 3 year olds but it's becoming stale. I'll be glad to see the Golovkin threads slow down.

Ggg don't need to move up until he loses at 160. I hope ggg is reading me. Get to 30 middleweight defended and wait to lose then move up. It will be best for ggig at 168 without pressure of unbeaten record.

People only asked floyd to move up because he didnt clean out divisions by fighting everyone. Floyd was never going to fight brook, Thurmond, Bradley, porter, so might as well get glory in one fight with ggig.
He also threatened retirement at every opportunity, so people made suggestions of who he should fight to secure legacy in a last one off fight

[lizard_man]

Lil G fans contradict themselves day in and day out.

"No-one wants to fight lil g at 160, they're all scared of him, that's why he isn't a star"

"Lil g isn't moving up because that's where all the big fights are at"

But you just said no one at 160 will fight him. So why would he stay at that weight?

I know why. Because lil g thinks he's Mayweather at the negotiating table. That's why no one will fight him.

[Eff Pandas]

The funny thing with guys demanding a boxer move up is its actually a huge compliment in that they are saying they are too good for their own division without really understand thats what they are also saying when they say a guy needs to move up.

[Zaryu]

Boxers can't get credit for things they don't actually do. Just because some of his "fans" think no one at 160 can beat him and he should just move up doesn't mean he will get the credit he deserves for being the best at 160.

Let him clean out 160, keep building up on accomplishments, and everything he does after that at higher weights will become even more significant.

[Eff Pandas]

So it's about money now?

I thought it was about respecting the sport, collecting belts, and legacy?

Guys who "respect the sport" who are in the sport are at a all time low in 2016 (or at least since I've been a fan cuz it probably was really f#cked up back back back in the day). And thats everyone, networks, commissions, alphabet groups, promoters, managers, trainers & boxers & everyone else in between those groups & the fans too.

But yea sure money plays a part. I mean even the guy sweeping the floors at McDonalds wants to see a lil bit more money over time. He's just not in it for being the greatest dirt picker upper of all time.

[hugh grant]

Ggig, please dont move up until you have 30 title defences. If there is a weak 168 champ by all means take that and move backdown

[Eff Pandas]

Boxers can't get credit for things they don't actually do. Just because some of his "fans" think no one at 160 can beat him and he should just move up doesn't mean he will get the credit he deserves for being the best at 160.

Let him clean out 160, keep building up on accomplishments, and everything he does after that at higher weights will become even more significant.

Being "the best" at any division is always relative & influx. Right now anyone who doesn't think GGG is the best guy at 160 I can't trust their opinion on boxing. You can for sure speculate & say that BJS can beat GGG (& I actually think he will) or Jacobs can beat GGG (& I even think he's got a punchers chance), but based on whats been done (not fantasy ****) I don't believe its a reasonable, knowledgable opinion to hold that GGG isn't the best 160lber at this moment in time.

[mick1303]

I want to see him go up to 168 because he'll be able to kick ass and build a legit legacy. No one currently at 168 is knocking him out. Hardcore fans don't seem to have the same faith in Golovkin that I do.

This is not what the poll was asking