Comments Thread For: Golovkin: If I KO'd Jacobs, I Would Not Be Getting Canelo Fight!

[Diego Rodriguez]

Having to wait until he was 35.




I already explained that you hater. GGG didn't have to give in on the weight. He was the mandatory for their 160 belt.

How dare the Middleweight title be fought at the MW limit. That is so wrong. LOL! This guy is a total putz.

[aboutfkntime]

He didn't have to. But he isn't going to bend over for canelo either bro.

nobody questioned whether he had to

we question why he did not want to ?

Cotto, was his best possible payday at that point in time

that fight would have set his kids up for life

there was no guarantee that he would ever fight Canelo, and any talk about Mayweather/Pacquiao is utter bollocks..... those fights were NEVER going to happen

..... so, why walk away from a HUGE FORTUNE, and why walk away from a HUGE OPPORTUNITY..... simply because you, "don't want to"..... ?

why did he "want" to offer Rosade/Brook a catchweight..... but not "want" to back up his big mouth with Cotto/Canelo.....?

wants a big drama show, but does not want any actual drama

I would just about bet my life that Canelo beats Golovkin at 155 after Mr "154-168" had to cut off one of his legs to make weight

and Cotto at catchweight, would have killed the myth..... regardless as to the result of the fight

and I think that EVERYONE is well-aware of that fact

[aboutfkntime]

I already explained that you hater. GGG didn't have to give in on the weight. He was the mandatory for their 160 belt.

nobody questioned whether he had to

we question why he did not want to ?

Cotto, was his best possible payday at that point in time

that fight would have set his kids up for life

there was no guarantee that he would ever fight Canelo, and any talk about Mayweather/Pacquiao is utter bollocks..... those fights were NEVER going to happen

..... so, why walk away from a HUGE FORTUNE, and why walk away from a HUGE OPPORTUNITY..... simply because you, "don't want to"..... ?

why did he "want" to offer Rosade/Brook a catchweight..... but not "want" to back up his big mouth with Cotto/Canelo.....?

wants a big drama show, but does not want any actual drama

I would just about bet my life that Canelo beats Golovkin at 155 after Mr "154-168" had to cut off one of his legs to make weight

and Cotto at catchweight, would have killed the myth..... regardless as to the result of the fight

and I think that EVERYONE is well-aware of that fact

[yankees7448]

nobody questioned whether he had to

we question why he did not want to ?

Because why drop the weight when there is no obligation to do so. Its not complicated. He held the line. Kept fighting his fights and eventually got the fight against the guy who represents the biggest possible fight he could have realistically gotten.

Cotto, was his best possible payday at that point in time

I disagree. I think Canelo was always the bigger fight at the point when either guy became a realistic option for GGG.

there was no guarantee that he would ever fight Canelo, and any talk about Mayweather/Pacquiao is utter bollocks..... those fights were NEVER going to happen

I agree that Mayweather and Pac-man were pipe dreams. But the fact remains that the only proven PPV draws were from weight classes lower than GGGs. So if GGG wanted a big fight he needed to lure them to his division. He got what he wanted.

[aboutfkntime]

1) maybe because they are SUPERSTARS
2) yet he's got a meaningful fight at 160lbs for the MW title, as it should be.
3) funny how the guy who wants to fight at MW is the bad guy, not the guy's who are claiming to be the MW champions yet don't want to fight at the MW limit? This is the mentality of the losers who cry about the criminals more than the victims.

I actually don't have an ill will against Cotto or Canelo. They did what they felt was right, but blaming Golovkin for them not fighting him is comical.

So let's take the CW challenge, did Ward duck Golovkin if he wouldn't have fought Golovkin at 164lbs?

I have already answered your casual-fan idiocy

no of course not, you fool

1) Team Bullshht were well-aware that he could not make 164

“Ward wants to fight Golovkin, and he wants to fight next, but it won’t happen at 164-pounds. By accepting 168 with Carl Froch and Chavez Jr., but then demanding 164 with Ward – it’s their way of saying, ‘we don’t want to fight Andre Ward,” the source revealed to Boxing Scene.

2)
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Froch at 168
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Chavez at 168
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Jack at 168
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Degale at 168
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Hopkins at 168
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Chudinov at 168
FACT: Golovkin was willing to fight Ramirez at 168
FACT: Golovkin was NOT willing to fight Ward at 168

just so long as you are happy with that

3)

First it was, " Golovkin: I'll fight anyone at 154, 160, 168 "
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/box...-at-154160-168

Then Andre Ward announced his comeback.

So it became, " Golovkin: I'll fight anyone at 154, 160, 164 "
http://www.boxingscene.com/golovkins...0-split--93258

Then Ward said that he would consider a catchweight.

So it became, " Nobody at 154/160 can go 12 rounds with Golovkin "
http://www.mma-core.com/videos/Abel_...ht_us/10102303

Then Cotto/Canelo both insisted upon a catchweight.

So now it is, " Gennady Golovkin eyes unification at middleweight "
http://www.ibtimes.com.au/boxing-new...titles-1476074

Then Ward moved to LHW.

So NOW it is, " Golovkin Will Go Anywhere To Face Carl Froch! "
http://www.boxingscene.com/sanchez-g...l-froch--97726

WTF ??????????

When the Golovkin hype-train left the station, most fans were under the impression that GGG actually wanted to fight guys like Ward/Cotto/Canelo.

seriously kid, how fkn old are you? ..... alt fanboy clown

" the catchweight challenge " LOOOOOL

[aboutfkntime]

Because why drop the weight when there is no obligation to do so. Its not complicated. He held the line. Kept fighting his fights and eventually got the fight against the guy who represents the biggest possible fight he could have realistically gotten.


I disagree. I think Canelo was always the bigger fight at the point when either guy became a realistic option for GGG.


I agree that Mayweather and Pac-man were pipe dreams. But the fact remains that the only proven PPV draws were from weight classes lower than GGGs. So if GGG wanted a big fight he needed to lure them to his division. He got what he wanted.

1) to make a HUGE fortune

2) to finally land a meaningful fight and get a decent name on his resume

3) to attempt to convince more than 97k ignorant fans to buy his fights



seriously ..... what the fk is wrong with you, you idiot ?

stop posting childish answers to adult questions

[yankees7448]

1) to make a HUGE fortune

2) to finally land a meaningful fight and get a decent name on his resume

3) to attempt to convince more than 97k ignorant fans to buy his fights



seriously ..... what the fk is wrong with you, you idiot ?

stop posting childish answers to adult questions

1. He is making a fortune. He got the fight with Canelo. Its happening on September 16th in case you didn't notice. And he didn't have to agree to a catchweight.

2. He did that well before the fight with Canelo was official.

3. His numbers were slightly better than that.

Stop being a hater.

[yankees7448]

How dare the Middleweight title be fought at the MW limit. That is so wrong. LOL! This guy is a total putz.

I know. GGG has such nerve.

[Diego Rodriguez]

Pac was never even remotely a possibility. Mayweather was hugely unlikely but not a total pipe dream. DLH took on Hopkins when he clearly had no business fighting in that division. He even went through with it even when he should have lost vs. Strum.

I'll say this about DLH. I have my issues with him, mostly disappointment. I get criticisms about certain things in his career but the man has the best opposition bar none of any guy in the last 30 years.

Prime:
Mosley
Pac
Hopkins
Strum
Tito
Quartey
Mayweather
Vargas

Not prime but these guys would have been equivalents or a little less to what Floyd beat in most of his big name fights post 2003

Whitaker
Chavez
Mosley again

There a few other guys on his resume that were pretty good fighters.

[Robbie Barrett]

So fighters don't get any of the PPV money? Is that what you think. Congradulations now you've proven yourself to be the man who doesn't know *****. Guys on the undercard don't get any of the PPV but the headliners certainly do.

Fudging idiot. I swear to God there is nothing funnier than morons who try to act like they aren't morons.

No the fighters don't get any PPV/TV or any other money after a purse bid. The only money they receive is from the winning bid. You ****** ****er.


A purse bid is an initial step in arranging a professional boxing match, involving the fight's/card's promoter(s). All interested registered promoters may bid on the amount of the purse (the total money that the fighters will be paid for the match), if the sides representing each fighter fail to agree on it before the deadline. The highest offer wins; however, the winning entity must produce a small percentage of the total amount up-front by a certain date. The purse in a purse bid is split between the fighters according to the preset formulas of the sanctioning commissions.[1][2] Purse bids are often won by one of the two fighters' promoters.
For championship belt fights under a given sanctioning body (WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, etc), the two fighters' (champion and challenger) promoters/managers usually get together to establish an agreement for how much each side will receive. In situations where the two sides can't agree, it will sometimes go to a "purse bid" where the process is opened up to any promoter that would like to put on the fight. They submit bids for how much they're willing to pay in purses and the highest bidder wins the right to put on the fight. In such cases, the champion usually gets a higher percentage and the challenger a lower percentage and the total purse is simply split between the two by formula. Take an example. In the summer of 2015 the WBA heavyweight champion was Wladimir Klitschko and the WBA wanted him to fight his mandatory challenger, Tyson Fury. The two sides (K2 Promotions for Klitschko and Frank Warren for Fury) were initially unable to come to an agreement on terms for a fight. The WBA then ordered a purse bid, which would have allowed any promoter to submit bids to put the fight on themselves. Just before the purse bid was going to open up, the two sides announced they had come to an agreement and so the purse bid was canceled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purse_bid