Does the ggg hate stem from Abel?

[A.K]

I honestly don't see how anyone hates ggg as a boxer, he knocks guys out with ease that would go the distance with any other fighter and he has class in all his interviews even with limited English. Guys duck him and people twist it like ggg is scared when he's desperately looking for a megafight and all facts back this. Just wondering are people really that shallow cause he's Russian? Or cause Abel talks out his ass?

[Rip Chudd]

Part of it is Abel, part of it are his fans(I don't really see a reason to hate a fighter cause of his fans, but I know some people do).

A lot of it isn't hate though. Saying you want him to fight better competition isn't hate, you just want what you perceive as hype to be justified.

[buge]

skin color

[Robbie Barrett]

No it comes from people claiming him to be great when he hasn't done anything to be great.

[Robbie Barrett]

skin color

Yes that's why everyone hates Kovalev.

[Madison Boxing]

unfortunately there are more sinister reasons as to why ggg is hated on here, will be careful what i say cause its got me in trouble on here before, but put it this way a certain section of boxing fans will never warm to him

[muzzo]

I dont like Abel,always talking up GGG,if it was'nt for him i might be a fan

[Robbie Barrett]

unfortunately there are more sinister reasons as to why ggg is hated on here, will be careful what i say cause its got me in trouble on here before, but put it this way a certain section of boxing fans will never warm to him

Explain why fighters like Kovalev don't even get 1/10 of the hate then? It's nuthuggers like you claiming him to be something he's not.

[Madison Boxing]

Explain why fighters like Kovalev don't even get 1/10 of the hate then? It's nuthuggers like you claiming him to be something he's not.

he would have got a hell of a lot more hate if he beat ward. But now hes officially on wards CV its fine. Answer me this, why do all the guys on here who love slick fighters so much, not seem to be fans of lomachenko?

[Dr Rumack]

A lot of people who view the whole Mayweather-Pacquiao thing through a racial prism see Golovkin/Kovalev/Lomachenko fans as ex-Pacquiao supporting white supremacists.

I can get people being annoyed with some the hype Golovkin has gotten, but I don't think that itself justifies the obsessive hatred for him you see on here. That's better explained by him being another of these anti-Mayweather fighters.

Golovkin is an aggressive power-puncher. Floyd is defensive and not a big hitter. Golovkin is on HBO, Floyd's fans hate HBO. Golovkin is white, that bothers some of Floyd's fans for the reasons outlined above. Golovkin is also a foreigner, which also seems to annoy some of them. Finally Golovkin doesn't play a bad guy role, whereas Floyd was a heel.

The most obsessive Floyd fans are often the most obsessive Golovkin haters. And any discussion on a guy like Kovalev who ticks all the same boxes brings out the same bile.

The same works in reverse too of course. Some of the hate Ward gets is all this stuff but in a different direction.