Gennady Golovkin vs. Dominic Wade

[J_Undisputed]

Golovkin holds the WBC interim, WBA and the IBF. He tried to make Fights with both Canelo (WBC Linear) and Saunders (WBO) in an effort to fight the other champs and win all the belts. Saunders turtled and said he wasn't ready even though it was for more money that he's ever made and after Golovkin moved on to the next option, Saunders started making noise. Canelo has been hemming and hawing and said hes not ready yet.

Wade is his IBF mandatory, the next option in Line. Its necessary to preserve his IBF title, whats the point of picking up the another belt if you're gonna drop one at the same time. He already stated his goal was to have all the belts before he moved up.

Also how his Golovkin trying to fight Canelo (and by extension Cotto) like Ward trying to fight Golovkin. I don't remember Golovkin going up to light heavy winning a title (Much less the linear championship) and creeping back below the weight limit.

Maybe weight hopping is fine for Ward, Mayweather, Pacquiao, Cotto and others that are chasing checks instead of legacy. Golovkin made a challenge to mayweather (The supposed best fighter in the world) he didn't offer to go down and challenge any fighter. Wards motives were pretty transparent even though he thought he was being coy. Golovkin stated his desire to fight ward before but he wasn't a big enough name till Ward sat out for years and people forgot who he was and the checks stopped rolling in. In that time Golovkin had built his brand and Ward figured he was some kind of peoples champ emeritus was just going to hop in and challenge and undersized fighter who was at the top of the game and demand a weight advantage and a 50/50 split to recover everything he pissed away of his inactivity. When GGG told him to go to hell, ward threw a tantrum and started name calling. If you want to call it a timing issue, I'd settle for that... Boxing is all about who's hot at the moment... but respect what the guys is trying to accomplish like fighters throughout history by playing within the rules and clearing out a division and winning all the titles. If ward wants to hop divisions and fight selectively for money than that's fine as long as he earns his shot instead of leap frogging guys who earn their rankings.