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Yeah you do or you wouldn't have answered with a bit of sarcasm. Plenty of people and not just Golovkin's fans have patiently explained to you what your error was. Why don't you just admit you jumped on a chance to discredit Golovkin and it blew up in your face. Being stubborn has it's virtues but in this case it's just digging yourself a deeper hole.Comment
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Nah, man. Yoiu're utterly wrong if you think all fighters get the same opportunities in this sport. Think about it a second... if that weren't the case then why would the sport be dominated by a few top promotions? Why would young fighters be desperate to get signed by GBP or TR or PBC? Simple fact is that being with a top promoter abnd the favourite of a major sanction organisation gets you better fights sooner.
Guys with the smaller promoters and less backing are always gonna be at a disadvantage, always gonna be the ones begging for fights instead of picking 'em. Just the way it is, man, the way it's always been.Last edited by Citizen Koba; 02-01-2020, 12:41 PM.Comment
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That was in fact very much SOP across most of the ex-Soviets, Eastern Europe and Cuba. In the US amateur boxing has always been viewed as a stepping stone to a professional career and the assumption seems to be that it's always been that way everywhere, but actually that couldn't be further from reality.
You're forgetting that across half the world until fairly recently there was no professional sport. The pinnacle of a fighters career was to medal in the Olympics or the World's and they were expected to stay amateur for their entire career. It's an entirely different philosophy and it fact whilst pro-boxing may have been secretly watched and admired the official line was that it was corrupt and decadent and much of that sentiment remains to this day.
In fact it's really only in the last decade or so that we've really seen large numbers of top amateurs from the former socialist countries turning pro and the pro sport gaining greater acceptance in those countries, though it's still viewed with su****ion by many older fighters and trainers.
Furthermore whilst in the US there's a fairly well established system to move promising young fighters from the ammys to the pro ranks, no such system existed in Kazakhstan in 2005/6, in fact there was pretty much no pro boxing at all and no-one to tell GGG how to go about making the transition or to advise him on what to do or offer him career advice or whatever, so in some ways it was a much bigger step into the unknown than it might have been for a US fighter making a similar moveLast edited by Citizen Koba; 02-01-2020, 01:05 PM.Comment
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You keep repeating yourself and getting the same the same futile outcome.
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Did you see me dis*****g it? Certainly Ward is the more accomplished which is how I'd usually define 'greatness'.
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