Thread: Gennady Golovkin vs. Matvey Korobov

This fight is in negotiations for April 23 on HBO.

Both sides say they are willing.

Sure...I guess its probably the best he can get.

Korobov isn't ranked returning from the time away and still too close to the Lee ko for me. Golovkin needs to aim higher

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Korobov isn't ranked returning from the time away and still too close to the Lee ko for me. Golovkin needs to aim higher

Agreed but with who? I don't think Korobov will be remotely competitive, but it's just hard to see anyone less passable as a GGG opponent being signed.

Originally Posted by Freedom

This fight is in negotiations for April 23 on HBO.

Both sides say they are willing.

Tis a good fight, actually. Korobov was doing ok against Lee before he got caught. Lee just now lost to Saunders, in a shocker. Korobov also has a win over GGG in the amateurs.

Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

Originally Posted by Freedom

This fight is in negotiations for April 23 on HBO.

Both sides say they are willing.

Tis a good fight, actually. Korobov was doing ok against Lee before he got caught. Lee just now lost to Saunders, in a shocker. Korobov also has a win over GGG in the amateurs.

Got to agree with the above.Lee stunned Korobov with a Hail Mary shot and In all fairness, finished him well. But up to that point, Korobov was outclassing him.
It's as good as GGG can get at the minute, because everyone else is bottling it!

Originally Posted by p4pking

Originally Posted by Spicoli

Korobov isn't ranked returning from the time away and still too close to the Lee ko for me. Golovkin needs to aim higher

Agreed but with who? I don't think Korobov will be remotely competitive, but it's just hard to see anyone less passable as a GGG opponent being signed.

Yep truth bud, just see Korobov more a matter of network convenience and one that was never really proven in the first place. They'd just be sweeping the pieces into the dust pan and patching him back together without any 'build' whatsoever. Mix it up a little and maybe go with a wild card in Heiland? The division needs a marriage counselor. With Canelo, Jacobs and Saunders all notching up recently its just more of the same for Golovkin. Its turning into one long drawn out 'stay busy' fight run.

Might as well put him in with Jackson, another Lee left over.

Golovkin is too good for his own good. I wonder how much Alvarez's I'm-creating-a-new-155-weight-class strategy is a negotiating position or will he just stick to it in one of the worst ducks ever.

Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

Golovkin is too good for his own good. I wonder how much Alvarez's I'm-creating-a-new-155-weight-class strategy is a negotiating position or will he just stick to it in one of the worst ducks ever.

Canelo needs to be a man and face GGG. I bet Cotto was glad he lost the fight.

Most of the middleweights that are not stepping forward or Canelo trying to make catch weights a regulation for those that can't beat a fighter at his own weight are also praying that GGG retires of old age or ages at the next weigh in . Canelo just wants to keep his face in photograph able order for his so called modeling career if it exists. There have been a few photos here and there. GGG only works with people that are available to him because all he seems to desire right now is to be the only middle weight champion. It seems a lot to ask for but it is proper because you are a division champion, no one has the right to demand you move when you do all the work required to be the best in your division and it is where he resides until for whatever reason he chooses or has to move. There are some people that say there should be a super heavyweight so what do you call Wilder a lightweight? GGG is for all purposes is the middleweight that wants the lineal title and has been avoided depriving him of that privilege.

GGG wasting his peak years here fighting b and c level guys. Not sure who's to blame but he badly needs a mega fight.

There is nobody to blame really, just very bad timing for Golovkin. The only guy he could have moved up for at 168 is Andre Ward, who wasn't fighting period and announced his move to 175 once he came back. Froch was talked about but Carl has most likely retired as well. Who does that leave? A bunch of guys at 160 who aren't on his level and won't fight him anyways.

Time to start building Korobov up. He was winning against the ordinary Lee until he wasn't!

Originally Posted by p4pking

There is nobody to blame really, just very bad timing for Golovkin. The only guy he could have moved up for at 168 is Andre Ward, who wasn't fighting period and announced his move to 175 once he came back. Froch was talked about but Carl has most likely retired as well. Who does that leave? A bunch of guys at 160 who aren't on his level and won't fight him anyways.

Agreed. And to add on to that, 168 has lost its good fighters. Even if GGG went up and beat those guys, it would still be said of him that he is wasting his prime years beating nobodies. Canelo is the one to fight and we may get that fight later this year but I'm not sure who he can fight at the moment that fans would be happy about. He literally has nobody and at least he keeps busy.