Comments Thread For: Saunders Now Hoping To Have Unification With Golovkin

[PunchyPotorff]

Saunders is terrible as is the MW division as a whole. Why anyone would want to watch this mismatch i do not know.

So, are you saying you don't want GGG to be active? Or are you skeered for your hero? Fighters usually duck GGG. THIS guy wants to fight him. How is that a bad thing? The guy is a great boxer, and GGG has trouble with that style. I say test him. What's he got to lose besides a few belts? He's the boogyman, right? Then let him fight a guy who wants to fight him.

[angkag]

What belt mandatory is next for GGG???

I believe Jacobs counted for the WBC?

Probably the winner of the Murata Hassan Ndam Njkam will have to be next??? They'll probably give GGG A couple of weeks to either drop the belt or negotiate???

The mandos are negotiated, so its not clear. Its possible that all of the commissions allowed Canelo to count as a mandatory (it meets all of their criteria, just has to be agreed with them), and might be why Golovkin put up all the belts. If so, he doesn't have mandatory obligations right now.

He's got Charlo, and I think Derevyanchenko is the IBF, but like Canelo, Saunders could also be negotiated to count as a mando too.

Its that flexible.

[TRTboy]

Would love to see this simoly because i would enjoy watching GGG demolish Saunders.

Easy money for GGG. If the canelo rematch is not till May then would love for GGG to beat the crao out of Billy

[bronx7]

GGG you won against Canrunner 8-4 you are the middleweight champ. He has no middle belts he is already hinting he will take his time for rematch clause which only he was allowed pus.

[Chrismart]

Why wouldn't he be? Saunders is a favorable matchup for him and he has a belt.

Now let's say Saunders is offered Canelo and Golovkin in the U.S. for the same money. Who do you think he would pick? I think he goes with Canelo.

Yeah i'm thinking along the same lines. I think he would see more money in a Canelo fight and opt for that option.

[bronx7]

Don't wait around for him win Saunders last belt you will have them all and tie defense record and you still have highest ko% ever for middle champ

[bronx7]

He cost you two years of your prime stalling last time now you are slightly away from prime and he is entering his you are like 7 years older than him he will stall you again to make you older and slide a little more

[bronx7]

I know you want him again asap but hbo espn atlas all the pros on twitter all the pros interviewed leaving fight all had ggg winning he will feel the heat from real Mexicans

[angkag]

Roughly how much do you think Oscar would offer BJS to go over to the States and fight Cotto at 157?

Jeez, no idea, but the value to GBP is huge:

1) gets slice of a Cotto fight for a title (Cotto being a PPV draw)
2) GBP double dip in a Cotto v Canelo II world title fight
3) process that sees Golovkin get another year older
4) process that gets the WBO belt to Canelo as a negotiating chip for a Golovkin rematch

That's got to have some value to GBP. What value ? Only their business plans/projections can say. But it might rival what Golovkin is willing to pay. Either way Saunders gets his payday, and even at 157, might view a Vegas date with Cotto as more self-approving than a date in Kazakhstan, and possibly more winnable (he won't, GBP knows that).

[bronx7]

He went backwards all night only fought 30 seconds a round has bad stamina in middle rounds he's no Sanchez who stood in pocket and picked you apart you pushed him back all night do you don't wait on him