Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Promoter: We'd Fight Ward at 164, 50-50 Split

[SkillspayBills]

You'll be waiting a long time.

Hype Job aka Booty Dew was one of the Gullible Gennady Groupies who said that Ward couldn't even get down to 168 any more

It's tough being a fan of a fighter when you have to associate yourself with people like that. Irrational, ignoorant bias. I am a huge Floyd fan, but I call him out on his bull**** (Being overweight against JMM for example).

[SeekDaGreat]

Gullible Gennady Groupies.

The best thing about this is Team Gokovkin thought this was a macho will fight anyone statement. Not seeing the hipocricy in this, nor the limitations it has exposed for Golovkin. They literally shot themselves in the foot, BIG TIME.

This is really too good to be true. A classic thread for the ages.

I also like how everyone avoided my question like the plague. Who thinks Golovkin can beat Ward at 168?

We need some more laughs.

[Scipio2009]

Ok this is the 5th time I've posted this and every time it gets avoided like the plague
TO all you GGG haters (hanz and Dunn especially) where were you when Floyd made JMM move up 2 weight classes fight him at a catchweight then cheat him on the scales not even attempting to make the agreed weight? Did you cry us a river like you are now? Where were your posts complaining then?
Now team GGG offers a CW and you are all over it like a starving man on a Xmas ham!
Talk about agendas and hypocrisy.
I'll say this I'm not down with the CW it's a bi tch move!
I think Ward beats GGG fairly easy.
Even after GGG loses it won't make him a bum like the majority of GGG haters will claim

Floyd was out of the ring for near two years, wanted to fight a top guy, and Juan Manuel Marquez stepped up for the fight, coming up two weight classes.

Still, to try and spin that as if the weight had any impact on the fight is laughable (Floyd seemingly rehydrates only 1-3 after weighing in anyway); Floyd and Marquez stepped into the ring at likely the same weight and Floyd boxed the **** out of him.

Highest weight that Golovkin ever walked into a ring to fight at was 173; highest weight that Ward ever walked into a ring to fight at was 176.

Why is Team Golovkin and their fans so afraid of fighting at 168, especially if they were more than ready to fight at 168 for Froch and Chavez Jr, a fighter, mind you, who would've likely walked into the ring on fight night 180-190lbs?

It'd be one think if Team Golovkin showed any consistency.

No one is saying that losing would make Golovkin a bum; it'd just bring him back down to reality. All of this talk of putting him into the same middleweight conversations as Ray Robinson, Marvin Hagler, Bernard Hopkins, **** Tiger, or any of the other great middleweights in history would stop.

He'd be seen as a solid fighter, beating on a soft era of middleweights, who never really broke out to that historical level.

[BrometheusBob.]

Russian Interview before was all correct, not the latest UK Interview

— Tom Loeffler (@TomLoeffler1)

War GGG

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Russian Interview before was all correct, not the latest UK Interview

— Tom Loeffler (@TomLoeffler1)

War GGG

He's talking about the interview where GGG said that Ward turned him down 3 times.

Yeah with these ridiculous conditions, no wonder

[Scipio2009]

That wouldn't be nonsense. 95% of the crowd will show up for Golovkin.

The 50/50 offer is just a thinly veiled dare.

Ward put over 9,000 into Oracle for his last fight; Golovkin put 12,000 into the Forum (without the gate information from both shows, there's no real way to surmise how many of the tickets were sold for $30 and how many were sold for $300).

Staples Center can seat 18,000 (just like Oracle Arena), and RocNation is backing Ward, so I doubt that, very strongly.

[SeekDaGreat]

Ward put over 9,000 into Oracle for his last fight; Golovkin put 12,000 into the Forum (without the gate information from both shows, there's no real way to surmise how many of the tickets were sold for $30 and how many were sold for $300).

Staples Center can seat 18,000 (just like Oracle Arena), and RocNation is backing Ward, so I doubt that, very strongly.

They were handing tix out for the Ward fight. I live near by.

Also, the Nipsey Hustle concert might have had something to do with. Just sayin....

[DreamerUSA]

Gullible Gennady Groupies.

The best thing about this is Team Gokovkin thought this was a macho will fight anyone statement. Not seeing the hipocricy in this, nor the limitations it has exposed for Golovkin. They literally shot themselves in the foot, BIG TIME.

This is really too good to be true. A classic thread for the ages.

I also like how everyone avoided my question like the plague. Who thinks Golovkin can beat Ward at 168?

We need some more laughs.

I've said it in other threads. I think GGG can beat Ward, but I would favor Ward just because we hav'nt seen GGG on that level.

[Chuckguy]

Floyd was out of the ring for near two years, wanted to fight a top guy, and Juan Manuel Marquez stepped up for the fight, coming up two weight classes.

Still, to try and spin that as if the weight had any impact on the fight is laughable (Floyd seemingly rehydrates only 1-3 after weighing in anyway); Floyd and Marquez stepped into the ring at likely the same weight and Floyd boxed the **** out of him.

Highest weight that Golovkin ever walked into a ring to fight at was 173; highest weight that Ward ever walked into a ring to fight at was 176.

Why is Team Golovkin and their fans so afraid of fighting at 168, especially if they were more than ready to fight at 168 for Froch and Chavez Jr, a fighter, mind you, who would've likely walked into the ring on fight night 180-190lbs?

It'd be one think if Team Golovkin showed any consistency.

No one is saying that losing would make Golovkin a bum; it'd just bring him back down to reality. All of this talk of putting him into the same middleweight conversations as Ray Robinson, Marvin Hagler, Bernard Hopkins, **** Tiger, or any of the other great middleweights in history would stop.

He'd be seen as a solid fighter, beating on a soft era of middleweights, who never really broke out to that historical level.

Thank you ! Typical bias Floyd fan full of excuses ha
Fawk GGG for asking for a catchweight
As for Floyd he just came off of retirement and JMM manned up

So if Ward says fawk it let's do it at 164, according to your logic it would be ok and all your posts would be bs right?

[Scipio2009]

At least ONE of these guys is willing to compromise and meet in the middle to try and work something out, and even give up a 50% split to the "B side" here (would Ward even consider something like that?).. As far as catchweights go, both are guilty to some extent but it isn't entirely unreasonable for a (pro) career 160 guy to ask a (pro) career 168 guy to meet in the middle.. better than saying "come to my weight or no fight", "my way or the highway", etc.

TBH I think Ward should be fighting at 175. His last fight was at what? 172? lol. He has claimed many times in the past that he plans to move up to LHW.. but now with Kovalev up there wrecking §hit left & right, I would probably think twice about that too.

Really a tough situation for Ward at the moment, pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place..

Why go to 175 when he was sitting at 173 with near three weeks to the fight, after at least a month and a half of a hard camp? 173 with three weeks ago, mind you, after not being in the ring for nearly a year and a half.

Ward's not "bursting at the seams" at super middleweight, the seeming criteria from Team Ward for a move up.

The idea that Ward is supposed to walk into a ring 173-174 (the Ward-Smith weight situation being what it ended up being) to fight someone walking in at 190+ (Kovalev weighed the 175 limit at the Hopkins-Kovalev weigh-in, followed by weighing in at exactly the 185 limit mandated day-of by the IBF, likely means that Kovalev put on even more weight for the fight) is laughable.