Is Golovkin the Real Deal ?

**Cressa121** · 07-02-2013 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing

Murray and Barker were in the Sky studio for the Golovkin fight. I'm guessing you saw their reactions after the fight. HBO may well come up with the money to get one of them over to fight Golovkin, Murray would be a good measuring stick as he just fought Martinez and he'll definitely turn up if the money's right but I've never seen two fighters react like they did after that fight. They didn't even pretend to be confident about fighting Golovkin if they got the opportunity.

I did. "How would you try to beat Golovkin?"

"take a baseball bat."

Murray and Martinez have both said they'll fight him. Murray arguably beat both Sturm and Martinez so would be a good opponent, and while I think everything about Martinez's situation says he should retire, it looks like he'll fight on and he's willing. DiBella didn't sound too keen so we'll have to wait and see on that one. He probably will be avoided by a lot of fighters now, but if he can get them in the ring I'd rather see him stick around at 160 for a little while longer. If he can't then by all means move up - a Froch fight would be hellish - I just like to see fighters try and clean out weight classes before they move up.