Comments Thread For: WBC Eyes Tourney, With WBA/IBF, To Set Golovkin's Opponent

[Pigeons]

Jacobs-Lee, Saunders-Eubank II. Each winner should fight Golovkin.

[PulpFriction]

Who needs a ****ing tournament? Quillin drew with Lee, Jacobs beat Quillin and Saunders beat Lee.

Jacobs and Saunders already won the tournament. Just make the ****ing fights.

Agree 100%

[SteveM]

Golovkin, if it wasn't for protracted discussions and outright ducking could have torn through most of the mentioned fighters. He likes to fight 3/4 times a year.

WBA should mandate Jacobs. That should be first. Not much you can do about WBO and Saunders. If he doesn't want to be in a tourney nobody can force him. Unless Golovkin goes and fights the WBO mandatory [who is that?], wins, and becomes Saunder's mandatory. That would be funny.

The one thing about this tourney idea is that the WBC is acting like all these fighters might want to push for a Golovkin fight to make great money. We already know half of them will drop a belt or run from a 40/60 fight unless they get paid a bucket load of $ (thanks PBC). If it was the same tournament to fight Canelo there'd be a much longer list based on the greater money to be earned. Conclusion, Golovkin needs a dance partner badly.

[aboutfkntime]

World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman is suggesting a tournament of top middleweights to find a challenger for WBC/IBO/IBF/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs), and he's extending an invitation to the world Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation.

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WTF ?

What fighters are they referring to ?

Middleweight is currently.....

Golovkin
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Jacobs/Saunders
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the rest

Why do we need a tournament, and how long will that take ?

Why not Jacobs/Saunders, and the winner fights Golovkin ?

[ricodonjefe]

Order Jacobs fight, call out Saunders who been yapping shut up and fight....I think Lee,Tureano Johnson,Eubanks will fight him...Lara will fight him at 160 ...Lemiuex wins his next fight he will be calling for a rematch!!!

[SteveM]

Order Jacobs fight, call out Saunders who been yapping shut up and fight....I think Lee,Tureano Johnson,Eubanks will fight him...Lara will fight him at 160 ...Lemiuex wins his next fight he will be calling for a rematch!!!

I think Lee is out of the picture now unless he makes himself relevant again. I'd be interested in seeing Johnson and Eubank fight but that won't happen as Eubank can make much better money fighting Lee or Saunders again. Lara - Lemieux would be an option for Lara and if Lara could win that with a UD it would build a fight up with Gennady. Lemieux beating Lara would make him real relevant again.

[Santa_]

That roid gut tho

[JUNIABOY]

Sounds to me like Mr. Sulaiman is brainstorming out loud what to do with this mess of a WBC that his nephew has left him with. Why would the other governing bodies work with the WBC to clean up their mess? Jacobs & Saunders aren't likely to work with them on a tourney...& you'd probably have to drag Quillin kicking & screaming to fight in it. No MW is interested in this idea. Just bury it already.

[danceswithfire]

stupidest **** ever!!! wtf is GGG gonna do while waiting for the winner, fight lower ranked fighters? not surprised its coming from wbc tho

[HeroBando]

stupidest **** ever!!! wtf is GGG gonna do while waiting for the winner, fight lower ranked fighters? not surprised its coming from wbc tho

No this is good. Seems like they wanna set him up with a legit mando somehow, not some no hopers like Heiland or Wade. Also trying to roll up all his mandos into one, that's great if it happened