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The fact that we talk about “poor Andre deserves the payday against Canelo” shows what poor decisions Ward made with his career.
From a Boxing sense, Canelo is not in Ward’s league. But Ward can only blame himself for not earning as much as he should have done.
So, no he never really deserved the payday , he fucked up.
Yet you are quick to blame Golovkin for allowing Canelo to dictate what he did with his career where he ended up with a lot more money than if he did not.
But did he though ?? All the waiting around for Canelo, waiting for him to make up his mind, waiting for him to complete a drugs ban.
Don’t forget he was the B side, so his money wouldn’t have been what Canelo was getting.
If he had told Canelo to go fuck himself and carried on bowling over guys at the rate he was, he would’ve had more fights and his purses would’ve increased each fight as his stock rose.
Meanwhile Canelo’s kudos would’ve decreased because he would’ve run out of bums and would be blamed for ducking GGG.
Upstairs for thinking, downstairs for dancing , my pedigree chum.
Reality is GGG made more money facing Canelo than if he made 5 defences against other opponents. I do not like it either but that is the economic facts.
Any figures to back that up?
You can simply just add up GGG's previous three fight purses before he fought Canelo for the first time.
GGG vs Dominic Wade = $2 million
GGG vs Kell Brook = $8 million
GGG vs Daniel Jacobs = $2.5 million

GGG v Canelo 1= $22 million
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