Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter: Don't Cancel Plans, GGG Will Fight on May 5

[HanzGruber]

Lol like people are still gonna fly out there just for gg to fight some scrub

[Motorcity Cobra]

Bleak indeed, on 5 weeks notice its a tough ask for anyone to be fight ready. Saunders said on March 20 that he had medical advice not to punch anything for 4 weeks, and IF that's true, he can't make it for May 5 either.

Those who have put their hand up to date:
- Andrade
- Ramirez
- O'Sullivan (who?)
- Derevyanchenko
- Munguia
- Chavez Jr.

I'm guessing its going to be O'Sullivan given he was in training for GBP on ESPN event for May 4, but hardly a fight to get excited about.

If the showed the fight on ESPN on May 4th I'd watch it.

[Boxing-1013]

ACTUALLY ITS LAUGHABLE, Floyd fought 23 world champions, had YOU GUYS said he didnt do sh|t, so im just going by YOU GUYS STANDARD. DONT SAY ANOTHER BOXER IS BAD FOR SOMETHING THEN GIVE ANOTHER BOXER A PASS FOR THE SAME SH|T. Thats how WE KNOW your agenda, its good for only CERTAIN people.

Well if you think he doesn't match up to Floyd, then you can say that and then back it up (as you tried to). But to just hate on him for no reason makes you look bad/****** honestly.

You gotta evaluate and analyze things as they come.

And for the record, I think Floyd was a master at facing guys at the right time. He is TBE - at promoting and marketing himself. But for me he didn't take enough risks to be one of the greatest ever P4P. Ali is considered TBE by many because he took risks - he fought Foreman in Zaire when no one thought he had a chance, and he knocked Foreman out.

Now imagine if Floyd fought Pac like 10 years ago, when everyone actually wanted it. What if he said I'll fight you in the Phillipines and I'm gonna knock you out. And let's say he did. That's actually the type of stuff (on a smaller scale) that GGG has been doing. No one would hate on Floyd if he did that.

If you can't appreciate a guy doing that you are just blinded by hate man, that's no way to live. You don't have to root for every fighter but just give credit where it's due.

And ftr - I am not a Floyd hater. Like I said he is TBE at marketing and promoting as a fighter. But he didn't take enough risks for me to be considered ATG.

Also, I haven't watched all of Floyd's fights so I can't really comment on whether he deserved all of his decisions. Would have to watch the Maidana fights again especially. (Odd that those are the two ones that aren't available on youtube). I do think a lot of Floyd's cards were wider than they should have been.

But I don't think he got away with a robbery against Castillo. It was a close fight. And I think he beat Pac easily 8-4.

[Boxing-1013]

Here:

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...-falls-through

Thanks. I hope they aren't really going to fight Sullivan man

[Boxing-1013]

I'm not saying Andrade would win but maybe facing a top level opponent would bring the best out of him like it did for Jacobs (yes I had the fight 6-6 minus the KO). At least, we'd get a feel for his level. "If he dies, he dies..."

As for Ward vs Kovalev I, my signature is not my opinion, I'm only stating a fact: Kovalev did lose a close decision. In my opinion, it was a draw'ish type of a fight, I would have had no problem had Kovalev won a close fight. I'm not the type to get all worked up over a 6-6, 7-5'ish type of fight. That's why I had no problem with Canelo vs GGG being a draw or a 7-5 either way and Jacobs loss.

I got ya...I just thought all 3 of those fights (especially the first two) had a clear winner

[Shadoww702]

What's that? Please enlighten me as to what you take issue with?

Needing 3 weeks to get ready for a fight with a P4P top #3 for starters.... How's that???

Have you ever boxed before???

[Afi23]

I got ya...I just thought all 3 of those fights (especially the first two) had a clear winner

What I'll say though about Andrade is that if he had made better career choices in the past, maybe right now, he'd have enough fan/media support where GGG's camp wouldn't be able to simply dismiss him without receiving a certain amount of backlash. At the moment, Andrade without a strong fan/media support reminds me of when Lara was asking for a GGG fight: an "intriguing" opponent barking in the dark!

[Shadoww702]

Name one guy with 3 weeks notice to prepare ever beating a P4P guy in Boxing???

[Shadoww702]

You think you can just pull any old sparring partner with similiar style and size to spar with?? Let along the talent x1000..

[Shadoww702]

All you'll get is a body bag to punch on and then face a p4p top 3! GTFOHere with that BS.