Pretty sure golovkin is being set up by hbo(big tv guys are really in control I think) to fight the winner of cotto v canelo , so it's certainly a good fight to kill time for golovkin, I really believe golovkin will be fighting for the wbc belt next year, if he wins of course.
i think its a good fight
im looking forward to it anyway
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Sorry but that's not true. Most welters of yesterday started out much lighter also. In addition Hagler fought them way out of their prime and at a weight outside their prime. Guys like Floyd and Manny are anomalies not the norm. Most welters today are natural middleweights fighting at 47. In addition the Kazak is a small middleweight.
Like I said they are rare and Ray walked around as a welter earlier in his career also. Point is after the hair splitting is gone, the Kazak has dominated a much better group of middleweight "opponents"
then most middleweight champions did before him. Another fact is that the three mentioned made their names on the back of x welters and the star welters wont move up to fight the Kaz, the rest of the middle weights run for the hills, make up weight classes that dont exist while calling themselves champions or using lame excuses like "a-side". Now that Kid Ovaltine has announced his entrance to 168 "cause its better suited " for him you can add jumping up to avoid him to the list. All of this has unfolded in front of everyone.
Pretty good debating on both sides.
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I agree with the basic idea you are speaking of I just don't think many of the particulars make much difference. Let's say Canelo beats Cotto and GGG then beats Canelo. Does that somehow make him a greater fighter? I don't think so. Canelo hasn't even ever proven himself the best at 154 let alone proven anything at all at 160. GGG is generally caught between a rock and a hard place and we all know what the answer to prove his greatness is. He isn't the only victim of the risk/reward era, Andrade can't even get a fight. Not that I think he is some great but Canelo wasn't going near him either. That's the point of 155. He isn't forced to fight anyone.
There is only one fight that matters for GGG. It's not fair that that is how it is but that is how it is. MW has proven beneath him by actions if not in the ring. Everyone says he's a small MW, he's a small MW. Then why do they also say if he goes up to 168 he is stuck after one fight? I thought he was a small MW, he should be able to drop back down with ease. His team talks out of both sides of their mouth as much as anyone. That's this era I suppose but at the end of the day a great fighter has to beat a great fighter at a weight where they are great.
I'm As ready as anyone to jump back on board, all he has to do is make a great fight. Telling Ward to drop 8lbs for a paycut is ridiculous. I could even get on board if they said "we don't want to fight Ward". He's not required to, there are weightclasses for a reason. But if they are going to pretend they have interest with bogus offers in the media then there are expectations they themselves created.
GGG/Lemieux is a good fight, I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it. To me it is a better fight than the Cotto/Canelo winner because those guys have lost a lot of respect in my eyes. But at the end of the day Lemieux did lose to a guy in the middle of a 1-6-1 stretch. He was the only win for a guy in 8 fights. That's hard to shake off. He looks better since but he still winds way up. It's a good fight though. Some want to see GGG lose. I just want to see more from him. You know what more is, I know what more is, everyone knows. So they should stop with the 10,000 reasons why it isn't happening and tell us yes or no will it happen, do they want it. Then they could fight good fights till the end of GGGs career. Just, if you're going to play the people's champ role, be honest with the people. I'll accept whatever answer they give as long as it is concise.
Since I was so long winded I'll add a little interesting GGG video(assuming I can, I hate my iPhone)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nZZ2GrBRNxY
Last edited by Master; 09-07-2015 at 10:43 PM.
I've asked this before and never got an answer, but I'll ask again. When did GGG ever ask Ward to drop 8lbs? Yeah GGG is a relatively small MW, so the idea that cos he's small, he can get back to MW easy enough is more or less saying "he doesn't have to go up "all the way, fuck it give even more weight away!"
Look, I don't think it's a realistic fight, they are different weights , different sizes, it's just nature working against it. I don't think there's any shame in Golovkin saying " He's one of the best fighters on the planet , so for me to step up, and concede, weight , height and reach is a bit unrealistic. So to make it more even, we would need to meet halfway." That shows a lot of respect for Ward.
Btw I reckon if the fight ever came off , Ward would win.
GGG is avoided by the so called top middleweights now, if he went up to fight Ward and lose, he would be even more sidelined than he is now. It is a bad business move to go up in weight.
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