Comments Thread For: If Canelo remains coy, Golovkin will need creativity to land big fight

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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Life would be a lot easier if Gennady Golovkin bounced balls or slapped pucks. That way, the multi-belt middleweight title claimant would be able to prove his claims of athletic superiority by simply beating the would-be competition in front of him and waiting for the other side of the bracket to supply a suitable victim for him in an ultimate championship setting.
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[j0zef]

Except two things:
Neither Kovalev nor Ward is a big fight
If he jumps to 175, he's not coming back down to 160. At best, he'll goto 168. He's not big enough for most guys at 175, and 168 currently sucks.

It's a ****** career move right now with virtually no reward - move up 2 spots on P4P list and make the same $ he made vs. Lemieux. On top of all of that, if you think he's being avoided now, imagine how many fights he'll get if he actually does beat Kovalev or Ward?

Moving up to 175 is the final move in his career. He needs to take care of all MW business first, with Canelo or without.

[steeve steel]

Ward at 164! And a free ticket ringside for Dawson...

[bronx7]

So a natural not big middle should move all the way to light heavy but Canella a middle hiding at jm then fighting at 175 can't move to middle that's fair. GGG should try to win last middle belt if Canella still hides then 168 it is 175 is unreasonable

[Bjl12]

Canelo moved to 152 for Floyd to make the big fight happen and Ward moved to 175 to make the Kovalev fight happen. JMM moved to WW for Floyd and Cotto moved to 160 for Sergio. Floyd moved to 154 for Oscar and Hatton moved to 147 for Floyd.

The point is - right or wrong - the A side holds all the cards. Canelo is a very exciting fighter and can do whatever he wants. He just fought a relative nobody and made a successful event out of it.

To make matters worse GGG and his team have done NOTHING to prove they want a real fight. Yes they called out a bunch of names, but they balked when Ward accepted and they demanded Floyd, Pac, and Canelo meet him at 160. GGG is a 34 year old B-side and in a few years he'll be sorry he passed up on huge paydays over a couple of pounds. If he and his team have so much confidence a couple of pounds should make no difference.

[NEETzsche]

well he has jacobs cornered now so first things first let's get that out of the way

he should only move up for degale if he unifies the WBC and IBF and/or ramirez after he picks up one or two more good wins. i see no point otherwise; SMW is weaker than MW

getting "brooked" by kovalev wouldn't solve anything

[Slowhand]

So a natural not big middle should move all the way to light heavy but Canella a middle hiding at jm then fighting at 175 can't move to middle that's fair. GGG should try to win last middle belt if Canella still hides then 168 it is 175 is unreasonable

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This, more or less. Get all the belts and defend them as long as necessary. It would give the word "mandatory" a new meaning: usually the champ MUST fight the challenger, in this case the mando MUST get in the ring with Golovkin. It would probably be a very strange line of mandos avoiding their chance to be king. And Canelita trying to boil down to 154 as long as he can..

[Eastcoast]

Idk if Jacobs is a big money fight at MW with Jacobs' demanding so much (too much overhead), but Saunders and Eubank are good money fights and Canelo is the biggest. Lara would be a good move, except he wants more money to fight Golovkin than he took to fight Alvarez.

At 168, DeGale, Groves, and C.Smith should be good money in the UK,but idk about Rameriz. I don't think Rameriz is big enough that Golovkin could make it a ppv, Rameriz hasn't even headline a regular HBO level card yet.

At 175, there's serious question whether Ward/Kovalev will do 200k buys. Ticket sales have become stagnant for that fight. 175lbs hasn't seen any big money involved with it since RJJ.

[bigjavi973]

Except two things:
Neither Kovalev nor Ward is a big fight

already making excuses.

[Dreamking]

Who at 168 or 175 would bring in big money? Absolutely nobody. I wonder why everyone is so eager for GGG to move up when b-hop spent TWICE the time at MW. So easy to spot a hater nowadays