Originally posted by verdict
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timeline check!
Sulaiman: Cotto-Canelo Winner Must Face Golovkin
May 15, 2015
wards offer was made in july 2015
proof he wanted ggg to postpone that fight and fight him instead. its oh so easy to make offers that you know won't be accepted isnt it?
now do you think thats a smart thing to do? im trying to put pressure on boxings biggest star to fight me but yeah ill lock myself up for a year so that it cant possibly happen. very smart decision that would have been. why didnt ward just offer to fight ggg right then? thats how fights usually work right? truth is ward hadnt fought at 168 in years when he made the offer and had no intention of going back. he knew it would be rejected because he knew ggg was waiting on canelo. thats why he didnt offer him a one fight deal. it might have been accepted. then he ran to the media screaming duck hoping people woulldnt look into it and unfortunately it worked at least somewhat.
you had people at the time saying ggg ducked ward to fight lemiuex! even though in roc nations own words the lemiuex fight was fine, they just wanted ggg to preemptively postpone the canelo-cotto winner fight(once again their own words) it was absurd. obviously ward didnt want to fight ggg until a year later but the details didnt come out right away but uninformed people were ready to be fed the confirmation bias and they took off with it! iinstead of questioning wards offer and being like hey why did you want ggg to postpone the canelo fight? hey why did you need more tune ups when you just fought paul smith? hey why didn't you offer hima one fight deal? they took the bait and said lil g didn't want it! they were so uncreateive they even used wards verbiage. of course ignoring the whole bad blood that was between ward and ggg when ggg tried to fight him before and ward tried to fight sartison, which led to wards dismissal at hbo while ggg became hbo's biggest star. im sure this had nothing to do with it!
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