It doesn't mean a ****ing thing to me, I'm perfectly fine with it. If he stays at 160, great, if he moves up to 168, great. Its his life, his career, his legacy. He can do whatever the hell he wants to do, why does it matter that much to any of you?
Spot on - this resume slant is bogus fanboy deflection. Why can't the US and UK 160 paper champs man up and take a GGG beating like men instead of being press conference ho's is the real question?
Here goes another one trying to deflect. It matters to people who are on a boxing forum talking about what fighters do or did. Obviously GGG doesn't mean sh!t on a car forum. Just accept that, while it is "his life, his career, his legacy," it's up for scrutiny as long as he is considered a significant figure in boxing. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. When he retires, no one will really give a sh!t. Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk
Id hate to see him messed around by Saunders and possibly Canelo for that WBO belt,if it's not available and the fights don't materialise at 160 then he should move on but that said at 168 there's nothing to get excited about.
Maybe belts do not mean a lot for hardcore boxing fans. Nevertheless, who cares about hardcore fans' opinion? It is casuals that matter for PPV and ticket sales. And belts mean a lot for casuals.
That's part of the problem with some (most?) of the newer fans. They associate weight jumping with greatness. Then you hear guys say he needs to challenge himself w/ bigger guys. Do these guys think he'll weigh 160 against 168ers? Of course not, if he did move up, he'd likley weigh in close to, if not at 168, and would be facing guys essentially the same size. So mich of the criticism on 3G really makes little sense. And about 90% is coming from guys who already hate him for whatever inconsistent reasoning they came up with. :-(
Jumping classes means little when the boxer is growing into them. Whoopdeedo. It means something when the boxer fights a 168 or 175 guy and he still weighs the same as he did when he fought at 160. Golovkin did all his weight class jumping when he was in the amatuers. Basically, it is a bogus argument.
If he manages to get the best challenges available at 160, then yeah. I don't look at Hagler in a lesser light for staying in the same weightclass his whole career. There's something to be said for leaving a legacy in your best division. Obviously, if he doesn't manage to fight Canelo, Jacobs, Quillen etc then his career will have to be considered a disappointment.
The problem with you is that you don't hold fighters to the same standards. You called for PBF to move up time and time again back in the day, a fighter who was far more proven I might add. Yet you're fine with GGG a guy whose 35 and whose resume is trash to sit in a dead division and take step aside money face mandos no hopers and c level guys yet others must move up fight this guy that guy and the other guy over there and still it's not enough. If you wouldn't have had double standards I wouldn't have anything to say but you don't. You can't have it both ways.
atsch STFU child....he's years away from retiring. Maybe you can bust out your crayons and write a letter to the other boxers in 160 to stop hiding fromthe boogeyman...
atsch F*ck off....I never called for Floyd to move up. There were always enough challenges in the divisions he fought.
Lol, what a joke. Looks like the Bum King is happy ruling over Bum-Land. When he retires, he best win would LITERALLY be either Brook or Daniel Geale.. Let that sink in for a while... atsch:rofl:rofl