Comments Thread For: Loeffler: Canelo Needs Golovkin More Than GGG Needs Him!

[Citizen Koba]

Canelo the counter puncher and smaller man backed up GGG all night and busted up his face. People are salty because they thought he lost the first fight and was gifted the draw, so they really wanted to give GGG a win this time around. Prevents them from scoring the fight objectively.

Yeah, I've had to come to terms with that one a little. Objectively while I did actually score II for GGG it was tight enough that I can't really complain about the scorecards - at least I see worse every other weekend without writing essays about it... it's more the overall sense that between the two fights GGG got the short end of the stick and never really got the defining win that would have put the polish on his career. Thing is you can't score fights in that way - just as you can't give rounds to a fighter based on previous rounds you can't give fights to a guy just cos of what happened in previous fights. **** sucks for Golovkin, but at least the dude ain't gonna be short a few $$$s in his piggy bank when he retires.

[ShoulderRoll]

Loeffler, remind me: who's the one with the $365 million contract again?

Canelo or Golovkin?

[Realizniguhnit]

Canelo is on track to make good money either way. Only thing I would say is it would probably be better for Canelo to face GGG again just because of the fact that I don't think he realizes hes going to have even tougher fights due to size difference at these higher weights...

I think Canelo thinks since he could take GGG punch that he doesn't have much to worry about but is overlooking the fact that not everyone has to try and knock him out u can be simply outboxed by a bigger longer 6' + fighter because they can hit him and get out of the way a lot easier than he can do to them

[Realizniguhnit]

Loeffler, remind me: who's the one with the $365 million contract again?

Canelo or Golovkin?

Tru but u people are constantly forgetting that Canelo has to actually win that's no guarantee. It's like when NFL players sign those huge 100m contracts then don't end up seeing no where near that amount

[turnedup]

Wouldn't say Canelo needs him but DAZN does need Golovkin because they need to eek out at least one super fight out of that contract to have it make sense at all. People get enamored with big numbers because all they do is read headlines and thus journalists don't bother providing details but it is very unlikely he got that contract with no strings attached. What are the strings to reach that 365 because even Oscar has said "Potentially worth" which is a big difference from guaranteed worth.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Team Golovkin's biggest weapon has always been the court of public opinion. They've always been able to sway the public in their favor. Loeffler's been a great PR man. He's been been effective.

But that has really worn thin over the years because they haven't lived up to expectations. Canelo is about to make $33M/fight, he could care less if a majority think Golovkin won, because the reality is that it's not unanimous. As long as there are people who think Canelo won, and there are a lot, he's going to be fine with it.

It's team Golovkin that badly need this fight again. Shaming Canelo won't work anymore.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Loeffler has done a great job getting the media to go along with his narrative.

[Robi13]

75-25 split for canelo at 168.. Take it or leave it! Peons

[just the facts]

The rumor is a g-Kermit Cintron fight is close to being finalized. Should be official by the end of the week.

Paulie Malginati not available?

[j.razor]

GGG would need to knock Canelo out to win sadly. Boxing politics and the fact that Canelo signed a lucrative deal won’t allow GGG to win unless he dominated every single round or knock him out. It shouldn’t be like that but it is what it is.

Triple L lost to Jacobs & Canelo TWICE. Politics is what GAVE Triple L a Jacobs win on paper & a draw with Nelo!

[j.razor]

Pathetic attempt at another payday & avoiding Jermall Charlo at the same time.