fergusg wrote:ikorolev wrote:A year ago, you would probably be denying any possibility of Hopkins fighting Kovalev on HBO ...
No I wouldn't... because Hopkins has been a managerial, promotional and network free agent for several years. Bernard could have taken fights against anyone if he wanted to, regardless as to whatever GBP wanted.
GBP had to start working with HBO and Top Rank again, because Al Haymon took over control over most of their fighters, which means their current roster is ludicrously small.
Dan Rafael reports that the combined total of Top Rank's and GBP's stable of fighters is now smaller than Al Haymon's.
GGG is contracted to HBO and Mayweather is contracted to Showtime and "advised" by Al Haymon... so the fight isn't going to happen!
The political landscape may change drastically in five years time, but by that time, Golovkin and Mayweather would have already hung up their gloves.
Very factually and elaborately stated, anyone who doesn't find this to be true is just a Tool or a Troll. Mayweather wanting a fight with any Top Rank fighter doesn't guarantee he'll get it. Alex Ariza has sat in on the negotiations between Arum and Haymon and he basically told what happens when these meetings take place and it goes like this:
Arum brings Koncz (rumored to know very little about structuring a bout) and they all sit down and immediately Bob throws out his demands without listening to anyone else's proposals, he doesn't like what he does hear when they speak and he throws a tantrum and walks out and that is the end of the negotiations.
How anyone can go along with this and not hold Arum accountable is beyond me, the evidence is out there that this has happened because Ariza stated it very clearly that the same thing that was happening 4 years ago is happening today and that Arum has an agenda to make sure that Pacquiao never gets to fight Floyd.
Even knowing all of this there are tons of idiots on this forum as well as around the world that still somehow thinks that "if Floyd wants this fight or any fight for that matter that he can make it happen."
Just plain stupidity if you ask me.
