Marquez: Canelo and GBP's Flat Fee Offer is a Way to Swerve Golovkin!

I'm a GGG fan and at this point I think he should take the 10-12 offer provided:

They fight in the spring, on Cinco DeMayo weekend. That gives them each one tune up fight.

There are NO options or splits in the current contract for a possible rematch. That way if GGG wins he will be in a better position to negotiate a rematch.

Just my opinion but watching both guys I think its an interesting fight for the first few rounds, then GGG bulldozes Canelo. I don't think Canelo will get GGG's respect and that will be when GGG opens the throttle and starts throwing heavy leather after that.

 

My thoughts:

1. Let's not panic, it's still a year out from the proposed fight date. You can't blame GGG's team yet for trying to get a better deal out of the fight at this stage.

2. Golden Boy are indeed trying to lowball GGG, but I agree with you: if it comes to take-it-or-leave-it, GGG should still take the fight. Kovalev took 250k against Hopkins just to prove that he was no hype product. In addition, GGG is getting old - the sooner he gets the fight, the better for him. Besides, a rematch could also offer significant $$$ and GGG won't want to be 40 years old for the rematch.

3. I'd be surprised if Canelo beats GGG without controversy in 2017. Dropping the belt proved that Canelo considered GGG a dangerous man to fight.

 

Absolutely. Also agree that Oscar is more to blame than Canelo.

However, for legacy's sake, I still think GGG ought to take it. He still gets more money and a better name on his resume than anyone else short of the Kovalev-Ward winner could give him.

 

YOU don't know a hole in the ground from a boxing ring.

Canelo dropped the belt and let nobody Golovkin pick it out of the trash because the belt don't mean nothing compared to the $20M Canelo earned against Khan versus the Flat $5M Golovkin earned against Brook.

GBP dropped the belt rather than be extorted by K2 who wants Rolls Royce prices for a used Yugo. GBP is run by TWO (2) boxing ATGs, and they don't play that game of paying CEO wages to a minimum wage employee.

This is America, so no free welfare checks to freeloading welfare queens.

 

Exactly. How can "knowledgeable" posters even think an offer to fight a year away is anything but posturing. I've asked other posters which boxers have done something like this....The answer is Canelo

 

In Old England, once upon a time, store owners only sold one item. Tobacco sellers only sold tobacco, Pot and Pan sellers only sold pots and pans, and whiskey sellers only sold whiskey.
Than came the Jews, whose stores sold everything.
Needless to say, those old English store owners didn't last long against the multi-product stores.

The point is, nothing stays the same forever.
The music industry learned this the hard way.
Now, the boxing industry is undergoing the same transformation.
GBP offering the nobody Golovkin a contract a year out is no big thang. A flat fee for a fight one year out is a perfect arrangement for a nobody like Golovkin.

 

save it...not reading this crap...