Comments Thread For: WBO Skips Khurtsidze, Installs Canelo as Saunders' Mandatory

[Jsmooth9876]

Does Canelo having the WBO belt make the GGG fight bigger? Undisputed MW championship.

I'd like for it to be for all the titles but not if it pushes back the fight another 8 months, we already have to wait what seems like forever.

[Citizen Koba]

Sucks for Khurtsidze, dude can't even get a step-aside now. But yada yada, standard sanctioning org bull****. Money talks.

[Motorcity Cobra]

I'd like for it to be for all the titles but not if it pushes back the fight another 8 months, we already have to wait what seems like forever.

Do you think Saunders would ever fight GGG?

[skinnystev]

both billy joe saunders & tyson fury seemed to have collapsed under the pressure of to high expectations

[Jsmooth9876]

Do you think Saunders would ever fight GGG?

Sure, everyone has a price.... Jacobs is getting $3 million I guess so Saunders will want at least that much... It would help if Saunders was with Hearn I think..

[SteveM]

Well there you have it folks....Chavez Jr. In May and Saunders in September....GGG gets pushed back another 8 months

I said last week - there's no Golovkin fight until 2018 or whenever he looks vulnerable.

This sucks for Khurtsidze. Very unfair. Saunders is a total undeserving flake and if the WBO had any spine they'd make him fight his mandatories quickly so that he shapes up or ships out.

[SteveM]

Ranked NO. 1 and never fought at 160lbs! Amazing isn't it?

Ray

I'd call the WBO a bunch of whores but that'd be doing a dis-service to pros - more like a bunch of corrupt pimps posing as businessmen. '@' pimping Saunders

[Jsmooth9876]

I said last week - there's no Golovkin fight until 2018 or whenever he looks vulnerable.

This sucks for Khurtsidze. Very unfair. Saunders is a total undeserving flake and if the WBO had any spine they'd make him fight his mandatories quickly so that he shapes up or ships out.

Oh you best believe the WBO will get right on the Canelo fight....$$$$$$$$$

If it was just Khurtsidze they'd never get around to it....

[SteveM]

I'm asking in general. Does it make the fight a bigger fight? Would you rather him face regular Canelo in Sept or WBO champion Canelo in May '18?

I just want to see the fight. I'm not one of those idiots who says that belts are irrelevant - for 99.5% of fighters they are very important. But some fighters (Mayweather, Pac, Canelo) are above and beyond belts.

And some fights transcend belts.

The biggest fight in boxing at this time transcends belts - just make it happen. Canelo having the wbo belt only marginally
better. Golovkin's prime is slipping past and I want to see the fight yesterday, not in 2018 or 2019.

[NEETzsche]

Khurtsidze should forget the WBO and pursue another belt. Maybe try to get a place in the proposed WBC tournament, or a rematch against N'Dam for the WBA mandatory position