Tom Loeffler: The hard part is getting them in the ring with GGG

GGG wants Ward for almost 2 years. He's waiting and waiting while Ward decided to become rather a commentator than a opponent. It's a dirty business, same what happened with the Chavez Jr. fight.

Enough of this ****. Golovkin will concentrate on Geale, Sturm and Martinez.
Ward's time will come though.

 

Ward's lost all his momentum/hype. The guy was on the verge of being a star and then he got hurt before his fight with Pavlik and came back and had a boring fight with Rodriguez and now he's been off another 6 months and looks to be off the rest of this year.

You can't fight the way Ward fights and be that inactive, he doesn't generate enough interest. The guy is a legit talent in the sport and he expects to be paid like one, but right now he doesn't fill the seats or generate the views.

Golovkin is not going to move up in weight to fight a bigger/faster guy who's hit & hold style is negative when there's 1) little financial incentive 2) little recognition incentive should he win.

 

Undefeated, American and arguably the best fighter in the business is not big enough name for the Kazakh.

Ward/Golovkin would get made BIG.
Everyone of us would hype the fck out of it and it would reach MMA community as well.

 

When is Ward scheduled to be back in the ring? Still haven't got an answer on that.

Most people don't give a f*ck if he ever fights again.

 

Seems to get plenty of attention right here on ESB.

 

Well if just after a few fights in US Golovkin does better TV numbers and his net worth more than Wards , maybe Ward is not that big of a name indeed.

 

So, is Ward going to fight anytime before 2015?

 

Right now if Golovkin were to fight Ward, it would not make a successful ppv considering the money both men would expect. Ward doesn't have a draw on mainstream public like Chavez does. Ward doesn't fill arena's like Froch or Kessler do in Euorpe. For as talented as he is, Ward doesn't sell at the high level. Where Golovkin is building momentum, Ward has lost it. You think it's rational for Golovkin to risk his growing status for Ward to salvage his? Ask Ward why he doesn't just fight Kovalev?

Golovkin could fight Ward right now and it would just be a fight for the hardcore fans, where considering the talent and risk involved, deserves to be a blockbuster. If Ward's popularity was back to where it was after the S6, then we'd be having a different discussion.

If Ward's looking for a fight, Kovalev is still waiting, but Ward pulls the same excuse as Golovkin for him. Says he has unfinished business at 168 (who the f*ck he's talking about?), and yet Ward was willing to move up and fight Hopkins for a fight. In fact Ward's history has shown to be more risk adversed than Golovkin's. He turned down a fight with an unbeaten and hot Bute and instead tries to fight a shot Pavlik, calls out a retired Calzaghe struggling with drugs, forced Dawson down to 168, only agreed to fight Bika so that it wouldn't count as part of the S6 in case he lost and pushed to have his S6 fights in Oakland.