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Just heard about this fight today. Haven't really been following GGG since he turned down the opportunity to fight Andre Ward to fight David Lemieux. Besides Alvarez's wanting to fight him at 155, which is as good as ducking if you're a middleweight champion, then who else is ducking him because I can think of a few middleweights that I think would have been a greater challenge than Dominic Wade, who I have never heard of. It's also hypocritical to be like "everyone is ducking me" when 1) everyone isn't and 2) you're ducking someone else. This is just another resume padding KO victory for GGG. We all know when people start playing up the fact that someone is a mandatory, that it's an excuse for a fight that shouldn't be happening. GGG hasn't cleared out this division and there is still plenty of good fighters before you get to Dominic Wade.
1.Everyone is ducking him. and
2. How can he be ducking someone who doesn't fight ? and when he does fight, he fights 2 weight divisions above him?

1. Just saying it doesn't make it so. Who has personally come out and said I will not fight GGG? I want to see the offer sheets his team has made to the top 10 contenders along with their rejection rejection letters before I just take the "everybody is ducking him" as gospel.

2. Andre Ward does fight. He fought in 2015 and 2016. Furthermore he has gone on record as saying GGG team turned down a fight with him in 2015.
In response, Golovkin's promoter Tom Loeffler contacted the Los Angeles Times to clarify the 'context' of the rejection.

Loeffler said the offer was for a 50-50 purse-split in 2016, after each fighter had prepared by taking one more fight earlier in the year.

'It would've been a bad deal to take,' he told the Los Angeles Times.
Obviously the fight would be at a catchweight, the same type of offer that Alvarez is being knocked for.

So everybody is not ducking him. And if the ascertain is that all middleweight contenders are ducking him, then where is the proof of that? Where is the proof that Dominic Wade is the best contender out there that was willing to take this fight, because at this point that is who GGG should be fighting.