Gennady Golovkin vs. Marco Antonio Rubio

[Rantcatrat]

GGG will massacre Rubio. It will be brutal. Rubio is slow and limited compared to Golovkin.

He is slow but he's also a veteran with some tricks up his sleeve and powerful and most guys he fights say he is deceptively awkward. He's a legitimate top ten middleweight. I fully expect GGG to beat him up over some rounds. While I want GGG to move up in weight because I think he's shown all he needs to at middleweight--we all know he's the best in the division--I also can see Andrade beating Korobov and a unification fight with GGG gaining traction in the public's eye.

[Ron Swanson]

GGG will massacre Rubio. It will be brutal. Rubio is slow and limited compared to Golovkin.

He is slow but he's also a veteran with some tricks up his sleeve and powerful and most guys he fights say he is deceptively awkward. He's a legitimate top ten middleweight. I fully expect GGG to beat him up over some rounds. While I want GGG to move up in weight because I think he's shown all he needs to at middleweight--we all know he's the best in the division--I also can see Andrade beating Korobov and a unification fight with GGG gaining traction in the public's eye.

But who cares? Why validate mediocre fights with belts. We say they are meaningless right until they serve a purpose in our argument. MW is a wasteland and has been for 20 years. The fights are at 168.

[Rantcatrat]

GGG will massacre Rubio. It will be brutal. Rubio is slow and limited compared to Golovkin.

He is slow but he's also a veteran with some tricks up his sleeve and powerful and most guys he fights say he is deceptively awkward. He's a legitimate top ten middleweight. I fully expect GGG to beat him up over some rounds. While I want GGG to move up in weight because I think he's shown all he needs to at middleweight--we all know he's the best in the division--I also can see Andrade beating Korobov and a unification fight with GGG gaining traction in the public's eye.

But who cares? Why validate mediocre fights with belts. We say they are meaningless right until they serve a purpose in our argument. MW is a wasteland and has been for 20 years. The fights are at 168.

Disagree to an extent. There are three "big" fights at 168. Ward, Junior and Froch. Ward and Junior are sitting on the sidelines right now with promotional problems. He couldn't make Ward and Junior if he wanted to. Froch is a great fight. No division is a wasteland when Mayweather, Cotto and Canelo are in or around it. I don't consider them "mediocre" fighters. Yet, GGG needs to be honest with himself that Cotto, Canelo and Mayweather want nothing to do with him.

GGG's building his reputation. It should be taken into consideration that for a non-Mexican, non-American, it takes longer to do that. He doesn't even speak English or Spanish. He's creating a little bit of aura about him. I can say for myself I tune in to see him knock people out. The same way (but to a lesser extent) people tuned in to see Tyson face people like Bonecrusher Smith. From what I understand ticket sales have been tremendous for his fight against Rubio, testament to his recent rise in popularity. This year was for doing that.

Next year he needs to step the game up. I don't disagree. If he gets by Rubio, he needs to seek the "big" fights. He needs to consider whether there are really any other "big" fights below 160 for him? Kid Chocolate was offered $1.4 million to face Korobov, which is twice as much as GGG has ever made for a fight. Can he get that kind of money below 160 without facing Canelo, Mayweather or Cotto? I don't think so. If they aren't fighting him, move up.