This is a fail on so many levels that it's gonna be hard to capture them all.
So yeah, Golovkin is bringing the vast majority of the following to the event, and he deserves a good chunk of the cut against Canelo, 5m guarantee + ~30%.
- Stevens fight happened in 2013. It was only the 2nd year that Golovkin was fighting in the US on HBO. Comparing his popularity from 2013 to today is absolutely asinine. I can use Google Trends to come up with a vague estimate of his popularity levels. According to that chart, the Nov 2013 fight against Stevens registers as a 7 compared to the fight against Kell Brook, which is a 100. He's at LEAST 10x more popular than he was in 2013.
- Announced attendance for this fight was 2 tickets short of a sell out (4k something tickets)
- Golovkin was applauded much louder than Stevens. Skip to 15:30 in the video. No idea what you're looking at.
- Everyone gets cheered when they land a big shot, no matter who you are.
Skip to 23:20 in the video, you hear a "Genna" chant. At 24:05 when Stevens gets KDd, there's a huge cheer as well. - The Lemieux fight was sold out. Was that because of the Canadian Lemieux who's never fought in MSG before?
- Danny couldn't sell out Barclays which he calls home, and did extremely poorly in TV viewship.
So yeah, Golovkin is bringing the vast majority of the following to the event, and he deserves a good chunk of the cut against Canelo, 5m guarantee + ~30%.
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