If Golovkin's PPV is a success

He's 33 years old. He claims to want to be known for greatness. He needs to up the competition, yes.

 

Why is it that people say this? NOBODY will fight him.

Quillin is flat out scared.
Miguel has nightmares about him.
Canelo is staying at 154.
Ward is fighting at 172.
Lee might fight him.
BJS won't fight him.

NOBODY wants GGG at MW. You know, his weight-class.

 

In 2012 Golovkin was unknown fighter in US. He wanted ti make some name and called ANYBODY 154-168, Ward including. Ward was success drunk and refused fighting GGG plain and simple.

In 2015 GGG is heading peek of his success and is one of the biggest draws.
Meantime Ward is on the low of his career, basically semi retired fighter. So he wants to spark up his career the cheapest possible way, not calling Stevenson or Kovalev (which can end up costly for him), but calling 2 divisions smaller GGG.

Tough luck doe, GGG does need you anymore, and if you want to fight it will be by GGG tunes.

So put up or shut up ...

 

I think he'll get whatever fights he wants once he's a confirmed pay per view attraction. You just have to be a massive draw and able to pay opponents more than they are worth. If he can generate ten million dollars a fight he can afford to give away two million to lure a major opponent into the ring.

 

Shane Mosley and Ricardo Mayorga are fighting tomorrow so what is your point. And they were retired. Heck James Toney fought more recently than Andrea. Please dont call Toney active fighter pls,pls,pls

Who is Andrea fighting next than...

 

I have suspected for a while now that Froch comes out of retirement to fight him at Wembley and see if he can take the guy's power and be the first to put a roadblock infront of him once he's had 2 PPV fights.

 

I don't disagree.

Regardless of the reason, you don't get credit for not fighting someone. Sucks for his legacy and level of accomplishment, though.

 

there's not that many big names out there

 

Everyone has different paths in life. Not everyone can do things the way Mayweather did. Some start late in the pro game. Others have promotional issues for years that impedes progress. Both apply to Golovkin. He'll unify the division and then move on to bigger things. I think he's got a shot at being one of the big draws in boxing, as do most reasonable boxing fans and anaIysts.

...oh, and Ward's team has yet to present an offer to K2. Yeah, they're real serious about fighting Golovkin. Reeeeaaal serious. Years of talk and zero offers. There's talk and then there's action. Serious men do the latter. If Ward's team were serious they'd have presented offers, told the public what they offered and that K2 turned it down. That's how you prove you're serious about getting a fight. Not on fvcking Twitter or blabbing to a reporter. That's meaningless.

 

I'm a big GGG fan but Golovkin is ducking Ward. The 164lbs catchweight is a lot of nonsense. Why is GGG willing to fight Chavez Jr at 168lbs (who comes into the ring at 190lbs), and yet say no to fighting Ward who'll weigh around 8lbs more on fight night?

It's an obvious duck by Golovkin, I don't understand why people don't admit it. Golovkin should stay at Middleweight anyway.

 

I've tried to avoid gettin into the GGG - Ward thing cos it seems to me that right now there's not much interest in the fight from either party, despite the obvious interest in the fight from the boxing cognescenti.

However, when an offer is actually made, even if you (and myself FWIW) consider it unlikely to be accepted it's not a duck IMO. A duck is when one side makes an offer and the other refuses - to my knowledge this has not yet happened in the ongoing GGG - Ward saga. Sure, the 164 offer is a PR move from K2, but it IS an offer and ergo, not a duck.

 

FFS, why GGG would fight Chavez at 168 has been answered 892 times. Learn to search the forums.

And how exactly do you duck someone who a) isn't in your division and b) made exactly zero offers to your promoter to fight you? You see, when you seriously want to fight someone, you make proposals to their manager/promoter. You talk to venues and networks to try to get verbal monetary commitments to help make the fight. Then if the opponent turns down the offer, you tell the fans that we offered him x, y, and z and he turned us down. Just like K2 did with Chavez. Then the fans decide if it was a good offer and if it was a duck. If you don't really want to fight someone and you just want to get your name in the media by mentioning a popular fighter, well then you just blab on Twitter or to a reporter and make no other efforts. That's not seriously trying to make a fight. That's just talk.

 

I just hope he gives Sergey Derevyanchenko his shot in the future. This guy might just topple his reign of terror.

 

People are forgetting one thing..no one is interested in fighting Ward...it's common knowlege that promoters don't trust him and he over prices himself.He totally refuses to travel and insists on getting his referee.That 164 GGG said was a middle finger to ward.