Atlas is a complete and utter has been bully. He talks **** about everyone and as soon as anyone calls him out on it he gets all *****ly. GGG is fighting in a classic division doesnt he get that. The 168 division is for small light heavies or fat middles nothing more . Hopkins didnt duck JC but he moved to 175 because it was a classic weight division. GGG is staying right where he is and is unstoppable.
He wants to fight 4 times a year. If he only gets 3, he only needs three more years to beat Hopkins record.... Three years is a long time in boxing, between having an off night, new contenders in their prime, ect, ect. My interest is seeing if he can reach and surpass Hopkins record, and writing his own chapter in the middleweight history books.
Kirk, I'm really not talking to you lol. You're a true boxing fan like myself. Let me have mines with the GG fans lol.
Cotto will give up his title rather than fight Golovkin..................Golovkin is Cotto's mandatory.................Quillin refused to fight Golovkin, Martinez refused, Void refused to fight Golovkin at 154. Atlas always picks against the Klitschkos. Atlas said that Kirk Johnson would knock Vitali out with one punch, Vitali knocked Johnson out in the second round, no contest..........Atlas hates Euro fighters, he also hates Pac.................Atlas said that Michael Grant would become a great heavyweight, dominate the heavyweight division for many years..............................
Sure, sure, sure. If GGG whipped Cotto and Quillin, guess what? People like Atlas would simply whip out their microscopes and broadcast every little fault they could find with Cotto and Quillin thus diminishing GGG's ring accomplishments yet again.
You've failed so hard with this thread. Firstly he's not lineal because the last two lineal champs have made it clear they're not willing to face him. Secondly, are you actually accusing GGG of "bullying" other boxers by challenging them to a fight in the ring? Wow. Find another sport. Boxing isn't for you if you think a fighter is unfairly picking on someone by challenging them to a boxing match. If anyone is the bully I'd say it's Qullin who only wants to fight overmatched opponents but that's another thread in itself. As an aside you do know that Golovkin isn't a huge middleweight boiling down to pick on much smaller guys right? He's just a 160lb fighter. If Cotto doesn't want to fight guys that size he should have stayed the hell away from the middleweight division.
I like three G for the most part but I gotta agree to an extent. When you can't achieve what you want to in the manner you want to do it, then you find another path in which to achieve it, you don't just stand there and cry while waiting for the world to jump into the palm of your hand. And Hopkins this and that, first off, his record defense of opponents he outclassed wasn't the most exciting (that seems to always go with the low comp territory hmmmm) and second, at least he wasn't calling out smaller guys like Tito and the likes when he did it. Tito came to him, Hopkins was perfectly content to reign over the middle class fighting mandatories.
Actually he did it all the time. He actually called out smaller fighters routinely. And I mean issued direct call outs live on TV. In fact, he not only used to call them out he actually used to try and lobby the likes of Larry Merchant to publicly shame them into fighting him on national TV and call them cowards if they refused. Golovkin has never once done such a thing, let a lone accused anyone of being a coward for refusing to fight him. And don't forget that he's not expecting anyone to move up to his division to fight him either whereas B-Hop was expecting all of those LMWs he called out to move up to face him. 2:07 mark [yt]hdpUmxoGMBw[/yt] 36:25 mark and 38:50 [yt]OjmdECWBQr4[/yt]
Serge, I know he started doing it after Tito, after seeing how lucrative those big name smaller opponents would be, which is what you have there with the Hakkar fight, but he did not do it before that I'm aware of. I guess that's because he started making a name for himself and three G already has one, so yeah, they're about the same. It seems as though once you're recognized at a world level all that humbleness tends to fade away.