Gennadiy Gennadyevich Golovkin vs. Ryōta Murata & Shuichiro Yoshino vs. Masayuki Ito RBR.

He's still strong and can punch hard but his legs are weak now.

 

What happened

did fury win

 

Whatever. I know I am certainly not worried about lower case g. I saw what I needed to see today against a sub standard opponent in Murata.

 

Contract was for one interim bout each, not a few. Dough was sure enough there, HBO would have promoted the heck out of the fight, and it would have have improved considerably on the Golovkin-Lemieux numbers.

Golovkin and team were free to decline the approach and fend Ward off with a non-committal 'maybe in 2017', but Ward, not getting any younger, eager for a significant assignment and not finding it any easier to cut to twelve stone, was just as free to elect not to wait another two years on Golovkin, The fact is, only one party gave an actual written offer the brush-off without attempt at further negotiation, and it wasn't Ward.

 

Ward was not that big of a draw. Golovkin was barely a draw. That fight would have been in the Kell brook or Danny Jacobs slot. The Jacobs fight barley got made. Loefler and Abel Sanchez were king of running their mouth at the time saying he would fight anyone. ya maybe for a big fight. Its not like this was something like the Spence and Crawford ordeal.

 

Big Drama Show!

 

Maybe yes, maybe no. GGG just shook the rust off. Now he's coming for Canelo at 168 lbs, for all the belts.

 

Murata had me in panic mode early on but GGG did what he does. Great fight, great performance from both. My favorite fight of the year so far.

 

Ruff ruff my bad.

 

You cannot call Murata anything of the sort and yet attempt to big up Tanks opponents

Olu, it just dont look right lol

 

You're a child. Lol

 

The Brook fight isn't remotely comparable, so far as the US market goes. That wasn't even prime time viewing in the States, let alone PPV (it was regular HBO in the afternoon/early evening). Ward-Golovkin dwarfs that fight.

It was definitely a more promotable bout for HBO than Golovkin-Jacobs and would've considerably exceeded the 170,000 buys that fight went on to do in 2017.

Difficult fight to make. Danny was a Haymon guy, boxing on ESPN/Showtime/Spike like all Alvin's guys, no longer a HBO fighter.

This part I can agree with.

Spence's and Crawford's wrangles are neither here nor there. An offer was made to Golovkin for a very promotable fight, one that had been a source of industry speculation for two or three years and which would've netted Golovkin the biggest purse and PPV buyrate available to him (outside of Canelo, who, at the time Golovkin received the Ward deal, was coming off a win over James Kirkland and was still two years away from facing Golovkin).

 

Either way Ward was a pretty inactive fighter who was paying his opponents 50k purses and now all of a sudden he can come in and dictate terms and force GGG to come up 8 pounds? Have you seen the contact with money involved? I haven't. The fight with Lemieux was already signed at that point. Canelo doesn't want to fight Andrade. Not because he is afraid he will lose for sure. Every boxer has rejected fights for one reason or another over money or pride. In saying this I have been pretty disappointed in how is career has gone since Canelo. I was barley interested in this fight. If my memory serves me correctly people back then who hated GGG or his fans were pretty adamant that he should bend over backwards to make every fight happen. I remember the Jacobs fight pretty vividly. GGG dominated a very weak middle weight division.