If you were confident you could beat someone...would you fight them for $10 million?

[Ray*]

GGG holds the WBC, WBA and IBF titles in his weight class. He's the only fighter in the world that currently holds the WBC, WBA and IBF titles in his weight class. Hell, he's the only fight in the world that holds the WBC & WBA titles in his weight class.

Canelo dropped down in weight and gave up his title to avoid his mandatory, GGG.

Canelo's claim to fame is getting dominated by Floyd Mayweather and beating an over the hill Miguel Cotto for the imaginary 155 pound world championship.

GGG is the most dominant fighter in the world right now and should be ranked #1 pound for pound. Nobody else has dominated their weight class the way GGG has. He knows Canelo can't make 154 forever. Canelo is starving himself to avoid GGG. It's only a matter of time before he has no choice but to face GGG.

Why should GGG settle for $10 million when he can wait a year and make more? Possibly much much more?

I don't think he should wait another 2 years, this fight shouldn't be about money to him or his team, it should be about getting Canelo name on his resume, the money would come with a Canelo win, waiting for Canelo can take forever. Again call Canelos bluff and KO him, not only would GGG be getting his biggest career pay to date but he would have made his resume and a rematch more lucrative, he has been ducked for so long according to his team but now they are going to let money prevent him from achieving that goal? That doesn't sound or sit right.

[kafkod]

It's more than double my biggest payday. It's a little less than what canelo made vs Floyd, right? I think ginger made between 9-12 mil. Please correct me if I'm wrong. That is boxing second highest grossing fight.

Idk how much people think a canelo vs ggg fight will or can make, but if you're not willing to take that offer then why bother to negotiate at all? Your star isn't that bright. Jacobs, Saunders, Eubank, Degale, or anyone else isn't getting you near that unless you fight a few of those names in one calendar year.

I agree that canelo and GBP will lose money as well, however, there's always that Cotto rematch looming. There's still him putting 50k butts in a stadium when he fights to fall back on. He's younger, has a longer career ahead of him, so I think he'll be ok in the money department in comparison to ggg. What do i know? I only answered the question that was asked in this thread.

If Canelo absolutey will not budge from that first offer he made, then Golovkin can always accept it further down the line. But he'd be nuts to not even try to get something better, with a whole year to play with.

Oscar is bluffing with this, imo. He knows a fight as big as GGG/Canelo will end up with a percentage split deal.

Meantime, he can try to appease all the fans Canelo pissed off by ducking out of defending his MW belt with this bullshit.

[ShoulderRoll]

a regular joe would fight any pro for less than 1 mil. throw 1/2 a mil at us and wed jump at it. if we were pro boxers, 10 mil might not be enough.

What if you were a pro boxer who couldn't possibly make $10 million against anybody else?

[Elroy The Great]

What if you were a pro boxer who couldn't possibly make $10 million against anybody else?

thats up to the individual boxer to decide.maybe as close to 10 as possible ?