Golovkin just as known as the rest of the fighters

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  1. Karaganda

    Karaganda cakewalker Full Member

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    Search results Monday January 20, 2013, 10.00 european time. Google search - last 24 hours. The timeline choosen to measure the buzz approximately 24 hours after the event.

    Orlando Salido - 10,200 hits
    Mickey Garcia - 7,240 hits
    Gennady Golovkin - 9,370 hits
    Gabriel Rosado - 8,320 hits
    Juan Carlos Burgos - 13,000 hits
    Rocky Martinez - 6,940 hits
    Sergei Kovalev - 2,080 hits
    Gabriel Campillo - 2,260 hits

    Google search is rather dynamic so if you try these searches at another date you are sure to get different results.

    What these numbers prove is that "boxings best kept secret" is not very secret anymore. Golovkin is, based on the number of Google hits, just as known and just as visible as the other fighters on the card. He was the third most googled the last 24 hours. He is out of the bag and need to produce results like any other top level fighter.

    Positives: Lou DiBella's statement "Who would give a flying ****, and why are you even asking? Who knows Gennady Golovkin other than you, me and a few other people? (Sep 2012)"
    This is simply not true anymore. Golovkin is now known by, in addition to boxingheads, a wide boxing audience both in the US and internationally. His recent fights have been aired both on German and Russian TV, in addition to HBO.

    Negatives: No more excuses. Golovkin has been sold as a KO machine, but if you put him in a ring with a guy who will step sideways the second he is jabbed the match will not really be that exciting. Not that it is his fault. Remember Mayweather-Mosley and Pacquiao-Mosley? The matches were not entertaining and that was in both cases the fault of Mosley that simply did not show up to win.
     
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  2. Vidic

    Vidic Rest in Peace Manny Full Member

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    None of those above are known though
     
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  3. purephase

    purephase Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Why are Google search results a relevant metric for how well-known a fighter is, especially since the parameters you're using will simply include articles which recap every fight on that card as a hit for all of the names you're using (save Campillo and Kovalev)? Why wouldn't, say, HBO ratings be a more relevant number to use here, and how does Golovkin's fight against Proksa stack up in comparison to other fights on the network in 2012?
     
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  4. JohnAnthony

    JohnAnthony Boxing Junkie banned

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    speaking to the converted.

    You can't avoid Golovkin with the excuse of he's not well known. Then fight Martin Murray.
     
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  5. purephase

    purephase Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The only rivalry more intense and more likely to sell than Argentina-England is Argentina-Kazakhstan.
     
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  6. mrdoctor

    mrdoctor GGG Full Member

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    What were the ppv buys?
     
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  7. Karaganda

    Karaganda cakewalker Full Member

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    I do not know and unless HBO tells us we will never know.
     
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  8. Tyler-Durden

    Tyler-Durden Boxing Junkie banned

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    Yeah this, he has less hits thans Salido and Burgos who are not that famous themselves.
     
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  9. Bullitt

    Bullitt Guest

    Nobody is avoiding him....if anything he's doing the avoiding....:yep

    30 years old....with only 25 fights....sounds lazy...not avoided:deal
     
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  10. the commentator

    the commentator Boxing Addict Full Member

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    google this, google that. The truth is golovkin still has a long ways to go when it comes to mainstream popularity...
     
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  11. Vysotsky

    Vysotsky Boxing Junkie banned

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    Golovkin has had more mainstream press then even Martinez or Chavez. When have they ever had articles about them in non-boxing press like USA today or CNN? Golovkin is more well known than any MW aside from Martinez and Chavez and truth is he probably isn't lesser known by much.

    Martinez using that when he fought Dzinziruk, Barker and now Murray is just pitiful. Right now with his HBO backing Golovkin brings more of a name, money and belts to the table than any MW aside from Chavez. Geale, Quillin, Sturm, or even Martinez using the "he isn't known enough" excuse isn't valid, period.
     
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  12. purephase

    purephase Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Both Chavez and Martinez have had far more articles in USA Today than Golovkin, and promos for their fight against each other appeared on CNN thanks to their deal with HBO.
    Of course Martinez wouldn't have needed to use that excuse when taking on Dzinziruk (by force) or Barker since Golovkin couldn't fight in the States.
    I guarantee Geale makes more against Mundine than he would have against Golovkin for this date. He'd probably make more against Sturm again as well.
     
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  13. Above Deck

    Above Deck Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It wouldn't take much more for Golovkin to be more well known than Sergio, who can thank Chavez Jr for fighting him, otherwise he'd be relatively unknown by the mainstream public.
     
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  14. christo

    christo Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    Stop with all that truth and logic, this is ESB. And logic and truth
    won't be tolerated here.:D
     
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  15. Withwhatsmine

    Withwhatsmine Boxing Addict banned

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    He wasn't even the main event on BAD, don't act like he just did 500,000
     
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