https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpBBLBg7UH0
Whilst I’ve always admired GGG, I cannot help feeling a tad frustrated about the persistently comical nature of his trainer, Abel Sanchez.
I feel that this is one of his worst interviews he’s ever given!
I’ve quoted Abel Sanchez’s words verbatim and also supplied my own thoughts about his excuses for his very strong belief that a fight between Gennady Golovkin and Jermall Charlo is “bad for boxing!”
• “Who did Jermall [Charlo] fight to earn the reputation that he’s been given?”
Who did Gennady Golovkin fight to earn the “fearsome” reputation that he was given prior to the Matthew Macklin fight? The only recognised 160lb-er he had beaten up to that point was Grzegorz Proksa, who was rated 10th by The RING.
At least Jermall Charlo demolished Jorge Sebastian Heiland to become Gennady Golovkin's mandatory challenger for his WBC world middleweight crown.
What did a welterweight like Kell Brook do to earn the right to share the ring with a middleweight like Gennady Golovkin?
• “There’s so many different fights for Golovkin, why would he fight [Charlo] now? There’s the Jacobs rematch, first of all. There’s the Saunders fight. There’s the rematch against Canelo… This guy’s just moved up and now he’s in control?”
Didn’t Team GGG persistently labour over the fact that GGG always fulfils his obligations, which was their rebuttal about the fact that Golovkin was awarded the WBC middleweight crown?
Jermall Charlo is the mandatory challenger for Gennady Golovkin’s WBC middleweight crown. So GGG has to either fulfil his obligation to the WBC and defend his title against his mandatory challenger or vacate it like Canelo did.
• “There’s a lot of other fights that are a lot more important and a lot more significant for the middleweight division than fighting Jermall Charlo?”
Didn’t Team GGG (and his fans) criticise other fighters and basically accused them of “ducking” Golovkin when they too cited the very same reason?
• “The Charlo-Golovkin fight is not good for boxing!”
Is a bout between Jermall Charlo any worse than Golovkin’s previous bouts against unrated (i.e. not true top-ten ranked) middleweights that we saw GGG defend his word titles against, such as?
Dominic Wade
Willie Monroe Jr.
Osumanu Adama
Nobuhiro Ishida
Gabriel Rosado
Makoto Fuchigami
Lajuan Simon
Kassim Ouma
Nilson Julio Tapia
Milton Nunez
• “The real boxing fans don’t pay for the fights. The fight between Andre & Sergey only attracted 125K buys means the people didn’t want to see it that bad… It’s the fan that is attracted by this crazy fight on the 26th…”
Real boxing fans want to see the best face the best.
Using money as the sole justification to explain why Abel Sanchez doesn’t want Golovkin to share the ring with Jermall Charlo is the precisely the same justification that was previously cited by the big name 160lb-ers as their reasons for not agreeing to fight GGG, which led to them subsequently being accused of being “ducks” by Team GGG and his fans.
If Team GGG’s actions are the same as those who were accused of being “ducks”, then does that mean that Golovkin is now a “duck”?
• “The casual fans want to see a spectacle. The casual fans want to see a spectacle between two well known fighters, not the [hardcore] boxing fans… that are picky about their fighters and we know fights…”
So when the big name middleweights opted to face popular opponents that generated a lot of interest, rather than face the previously anonymous GGG, they were accused of being “ducks” by the hardcore boxing fraternity, because the previous champions weren’t facing the best. Does mean that GGG is now a “duck”?
• “Nobody knows Charlo.”
A lot of people didn’t know who Gennady Golovkin was when he arrived on the world scene in 2008, when he was ranked as a top ten middleweight by three of the sports main governing bodies.
At least Charlo is a former world champion and has also earned his mandatory position for a shot at the WBC world middleweight title.
Didn’t some of the biggest name middleweights since 2008 onwards cite the very same reason as Abel Sanchez when they expressed disinterest in taking a fight against GGG?
• “We don’t have to [go into negotiations]. There aren’t going to be any negotiations. It’ll go straight to purse bids automatically. So now, who’s going to bid for Charlo? Who’s going to want to waste their money on Charlo? He has to build himself up so that he’s viable for a fight.”
Once again, Abel Sanchez is citing the same reasons that other fighters cited when they previously refused to consider fighting Gennady Golovkin. Yet they were accused of being “ducks”… so does that mean that GGG is a fellow “duck”?
Abel Sanchez’s comments for the remainder of the interview follow precisely the same theme as he continuously expresses his strong disinterest in allowing Golovkin to share the ring with Jermall Charlo.
Thoughts?
