Abel Sanchez: We're not interested in Ward at this time

Sanchez is full of ****. This fight should happen this year.

 

I'm glad you said losing because that's exactly what will happen if he ever gets into the ring with ward:deal

 

I think this has kinda been the story right along - both teams have been saying 'not yet' - Golovkins still fighting for 400-500K and his opponents aren't getting much less, I don't know what Ward got to fight La Bomba, but Rodriguez held out for and achieved a million $ purse (which he promptly threw away 200K of for failing to make weight).

Despite having made big waves in the boxing world GGG still doesn't put the public bums in seats as it were - it's easy to forget as a forum rat that GGG was completely unknown to casual fans little over a year ago.

 

Who else do they want to fight at 160??

 

Why this year?

Surely you can endure another year of GGG hype?

 

Maravilla. Murray. Geale - these are about the only significant possibilities - after that a move to SMW.

I'm hoping for at least one of these amongst some second tier fighters - mainly he just needs to stay busy from a business standpoint. The more he KOs guys in front of US audiences the quicker the money comes to make the fights we want.

 

quillin, sturm and martinez.

 

GGG makes less than a quarter of what Ward does mainly because HBO had all the leverage since GGG was just establishing himself in the U.S. Andre made $1.9 million for Rodriguez, which is more than HBO paid GGG for the three fights he had on the network last year combined.

The current ratings don't dictate such a disparity. It took a year for Golovkin fights to rate higher than Andre's, which is a crazy growth rate (Stevens-GGG rated higher than Ward-Dawson). In the mean time, Ward's ratings have been declining.

Abel's right to wait. GGG's numbers are on the upswing, and Ward's stagnating. In another year, he'll have considerably more power at the negotiating table and Ward won't be able to dictate terms to him.

 

It makes good business sense and the right thing to do because I don't see GGG beating Ward any time soon. Golovkins team should maximize his profit before putting him in the ring with Andre.

 

I think this fight will happen in late 2015. A friend who has access to some inside information told me that we should see some key MW fights this year and they look to move up next year. Hopefully his info is good, but who knows. I really want to see this fight. Currently, I'd be rolling with Ward at the casino, but we'll see what the odds are next year. If GGG has some tasty underdog odds there might be a good play there.

 

Been saying this for a while. Plus, Ward does not want the fight yet either. Thats why Ward did not "call out" Golovkin (despite the way some folk here tried to twist it), he just acknowledged a fight was likely to happen down the road.

Ward needs Golovkin. Ward wants PPV level money. For Ward himself to get to the next level in terms of purses, he cant do it himself. Just like FMJ couldnt. To get that top tier, you need to fight a top drawing opponent. If you look at the landscape, theres only one guy Ward can get in the ring with any time soon that will help make him a PPV star.

Neither wants the fight yet, and neither side is ducking anyone. When the fight does happen, if GGG loses to Ward it wont mean hes a bum either any more than Froch was a bum for losing to Ward. It will just mean Ward still on track to inherit FMJ #1 p4p status.

 

Ward needs some real opponents so hopefully this happens sooner than later. fan of both btw