Comments Thread For: Canelo: Golovkin, Nothing He Cares About More Than Money

[Citizen Koba]

Sure the WBC "ordered" a rematch but it was not mandatory in the true since. Otherwise GBP would have used that as leverage in negotiations and the WBC, who seems to unfairly favor Alvarez, never made any announcement regarding what would happen if the two didn't fight.

My point, and I think its a perspective others share is that GGG talked a lot of ***** about fighters choosing money fights over legacy fights and mandatories when he was the one being left out in the cold. Now that he's in a similar position, he's doing the same thing he talked ***** about. He's also talking ***** to Alvarez as if he can get the type of pay day he's getting by fighting anybody other than Alvarez.

It was (and is) a mandatory in every sense. The wrinkle here is that Golovkin could, if he had chosen, have easily derailed it simply by demanding his full champions split which would of course have been refused by GBP. Interpret that how you will.

Incidentally, I'm not trying to pass judgement on the respective morals or character of either fighter merely correcting you on a technical detail.

http://wbcboxing.com/wbceng/Rules/WBCRulesandRegulationsJanuary2014.pdf

3.7 Designation of Mandatory Challengers. The WBC shall always have the discretion to
designate a mandatory challenger by:

(a) ordering a final elimination bout of two qualified contenders; or
(b) designating a Qualified Challenger as
the official mandatory challenger.

For the avoidance of doubt, the highest rated (or the highest rated available) boxer in the WBC rankings is never, solely by virtue of such position, the official mandatory challenger.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, including any communications attributed to the WBC, no boxer shall be considered as, or claim any privileges associated with, being a mandatory challenger unless
(i) the boxer has been officially designated as such by the WBC President or the President’s designated representative, and (ii) the WBC Board of
Governors has voted to authorize or ratify the designation of such boxer as mandatory
challenger.

(my emphasis)

[Tonyu]

That's cheap coming from Canelo the one asking for the biggest cut. HYPOCRITE

[Pennsauken1]

He gets robbed of a decision, then you cheat, why wouldn’t he be upset!!!

[RL_GMA]

Canelo needs to STFU already.

YOU got caught...
YOU are the reason this fight didn't happen in May
YOU are still the A-side
YOU are still making the Lion share

What room does he really have to complain??

[Robi13]

Of course you would be agreeing with your best canelo friend on here. I'm still waiting for you to reply to me pointing out just how sh&&ty nelo's resume is for a guy with 52 fights...

Lol all I have to say is...

Caneloresume >gggresume.

Not even close.

[Robi13]

Difference is age, same as with players in other sports. This guy is beyond his sell by date in terms of athlete performance. You only see a few athletes sacrifice money for glory in their mid to late thirties. Karl Malone being an example, took chump change to chase an NBA ring. Everyone else typically looks at that last contract as a retirement fund. The way you look at life at 25 and 30 is a seriously a lot different than you look at it at 35..at 35 you are looking down the barrel at middle age, for an athlete they are having talks of retirement thrown at them from every single angle imaginable.

Good point, I actually agree with you. But, its not canelos or anyone elses fault for that matter that ggg decided to go pro late. His own fault.

[Kali_KO]

The writer failed to mention that Canelo made the most he has ever in his career against GGG. 4 times what he made vs Floyd and in the rematch alone projected over $50M. There’s a reason why GB and Canelo came back to accept GGG demands, was the highest money for them and get another show at GGG world titles.

[ThomasJK]

Canelo is still salty because he put himself into a position where he had no other choice tbut to give in to Golovkin’s purse split demands. They are both prize fighters so eff the belts. It is all about the dead presidents at this point.

[RL_GMA]

Lol all I have to say is...

Caneloresume >gggresume.

Not even close.

Canelo by far has more names on his resume but resumes in a whole is always subjective because then you start picking through each's best wins / fights and seeing how either would do against the other's opposition. The problem here though is most of Canelo's best wins are against Welterweights / Jr Middleweights while not having 1 win against a current top 10 Middleweight yet. GGG on the other hand has several of those kind of wins without a blemish. So do we negate GGG's wins because the names aren't popular? Do we give Canelo credit for beating older Hall of Fame names? At this point Canelo's signature win is Miguel Cotto. Does THAT Cotto beat GGG in the last couple of years? Very likely not.

Again, it's subjective but if the outcome of fights relied on resumes then Canelo should've wiped out GGG which CLEARLY did not happen last September.

[Catrin]

Le vas al kazako no al mexicano pero dices que yo soy el torcido?! Estas mal mi compa, yo siempre estare y apoyare a mi gente en Las buenas y malas. A mi no me lavaron el coco como el resto que le van al kazajo. Puro Mexico siempre y donde sea, guste a quien le guste, y hazle como quieras... UA

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