Comments Thread For: Golovkin is Highly Motivated, Regains Interest in Boxing

[Lemonhead_Jeff]

hagler much worse. biggest fights against LW-WW-JM

Touche. They are similar in that regard.
Maybe when all is said and done, I'll look back at GGG's career as favorably as I do Hagler's, but as of right now, there are other directions I would have liked to see him go. I'm really looking forward to this upcoming fight, but a victory over Andre Ward would have been more significant to his legacy than a victory over Canelo.

[Dbt]

Besides Jacobs, he's fought mediocre middleweight contenders who were never expected to give him a challenge. Aside from that, the only names he's been mentioning for the past few years are Canelo, Pacquiao, and Mayweather, neither of whom had ever fought at 160 yet. Golovkin's team even offered to fight at 154 if they could get Floyd or Manny, but they would only fight Canelo at 160. Andre Ward was still an option at 168 during that time, but that fight never interested Golovkin.

He's fought every middleweight who'd be willing to step into the ring with him. Andre Ward only mentioned Golovkin when he was already signed to fight Lemiuex. As it typically goes, they only call him out when he's contracted elsewhere

[Ray*]

I really did think he was tired with boxing in his recent fights.