fergusg wrote:Purse Bid Shakedown wrote:So what your saying is your last 2 long posts are garbage and should be ignored? I got that much. They are making compromises with the purses, dumbo:
GGG 750k, Geale 600k
GGG 400k, Stevens 300k
GGG 350k, Macklin 300k
What other A side champ gives a split that generous?
This doesn’t prove anything, because none of us are privy to the negotiations, or lack thereof, that took place with the top-tier middleweight fighters. So we don’t know what was discussed, but it seems the media and Golovkin’s fans assume that "fear" is upping the price for such bouts to take place.
We know for certain that Abel Sanchez claims there wasn’t enough money for a bout against S.O.G. to take place and that they wouldn’t allow Ward to dictate terms, because they believed GGG was the bigger name. These were his own words.
Similarly, whilst the financials were agreed, Chavez Jr. walked away from the GGG negotiations, because Top Rank wanted to him to sign a contract extension, which no man in his situation with mental capacity would agree to those terms, but to repeat myself… that’s not what I call being avoided, it's not "pulling out" because the fight wasn't signed... nor is it being greedy either.
You only need to look at the circumstances of what the media were told about the Ward & Chavez Jr. negotiations to realise that there was a lack of compromise, especially from a team representing a fighter craving bouts against the biggest names in the sport.
Purse Bid Shakedown wrote:You don't seem to understand that his management changed in 2012, when he signed with K2. That, plus the fortunate HBO exposure, and his profile and standard of comp has gone up since. But without the unlikely HBO backing, even guys like Rubio Geale and Macklin wouldn't touch him
I understand that Golovkin was already training in Big Bear with Abel Sanchez whilst his handlers were negotiating with Showtime and HBO in February 2012… at the very same time, prestigious boxing scribes like Dan Rafael were already hyping him up telling everyone he was “the next big thing.” So GGG’s handlers have had 2½ years to turn things around.
I need to make myself abundantly clear… I am a big fan of Gennady Golovkin. It’s just that I feel that his career has been badly managed, because he should have mixed with a better level of competition befitting of someone widely rated as a pound-for-pound fighter. Is that so unreasonable?
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Before 2012 he was an easily ducked nobody, now he's HBO's darling with several top 10 wins.
