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Is he trying to follow Salido's tactics against Lomachenko ? Even if he is 10 pounds heavier than Gennady, it won't help.

Meh, like you said, he's a class below GGG anyway, so it didn't matter what weight he comes in at. Pretty pathetic though for a journeyman fringe contender who finally got handed a paper alphabet belt this year. Would have thought he'd make more of an effort not to give it away after being on the outside looking in for so long

Did he make weight after 2 hours?

Cutman Scabbers wrote:Did he make weight after 2 hours?

He didn't attempt to make weight.

The fine is $50,000 per extra pound, so he probably already squeezed all he could and could not drop anymore. Spada claims that scale was altered in Mexico to allow Rubio to make weight before their fight:
http://www.BS.com/spada-rubio- ... kin--81912

If that is true, then Rubio just can't make 160 anymore without significantly hurting his performance.

If the weigh in has anything to do with it I'd give Rubio the weight advantage.

weight wont help him.


this is going to be a quick slaughter.

brutal left hooks to rubios body


ggg will be done with him within 2 or 3 rounds.

mismatch.

..it's either a trick or just unprofessional...don't like it, hope he gets punished...

You'd think he'd want to weigh in light against Golovkin wouldn't you (or is it just me?). I don't see how it can help being a slow, bulky target.

In my opinion he simply can't do the weight and hasn't been able to for some time. I don't believe for a second that Spada was nearly three pounds under, draw your own conclusions.

giacomino wrote:Meh, like you said, he's a class below GGG anyway, so it didn't matter what weight he comes in at. Pretty pathetic though for a journeyman fringe contender who finally got handed a paper alphabet belt this year. Would have thought he'd make more of an effort not to give it away after being on the outside looking in for so long

Look at how fat he looks here though mate and this video was put up 11 days ago! LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=202Tvd6dCZ4

Sklar wrote:In my opinion he simply can't do the weight and hasn't been able to for some time. I don't believe for a second that Spada was nearly three pounds under, draw your own conclusions.

I think he can. He's just a fat, lazy shit at this point in his career.

I seen an up close picture of him at the weigh in and he looked very skinny and ill, the way he was looking i believe he just cant make the weight, he was 176 i believe at the 30 day weigh in and he seems like he walks around pretty high between fights, no way he would give up 100K if he could make the weight

stevekrazy wrote:I seen an up close picture of him at the weigh in and he looked very skinny and ill, the way he was looking i believe he just cant make the weight, he was 176 i believe at the 30 day weigh in and he seems like he walks around pretty high between fights, no way he would give up 100K if he could make the weight

Look at that youtube clip of him from 11 days ago. He's got moobs and you can see a fat stomach.

How much is he getting paid to get KO'd, btw?

It was 450,000. Now it is down to a little over 350,000. Golovkin is getting about 900,000. I can't believe how low his and his opponents' paychecks are. It doesn't form a huge line to get brutallly KO'ed.

Weird that Qullin, who nobody seems to think all that highly of, was going to make so much more to fight Korobov considering GGG-Rubio is a unification fight of sorts and the TV boys seem to love GGG with his fan-friendly style.

Once again, it seems like K2 and Golovkin's manager are letting him down. He is already 32 and popular enough to make more money and have his opponents make more making fights with him more attractive. When are they planning to pay him ? When he is out of his prime and can't deliver amazing performances anymore ?

ikorolev wrote:Once again, it seems like K2 and Golovkin's manager are letting him down. He is already 32 and popular enough to make more money and have his opponents make more making fights with him more attractive. When are they planning to pay him ? When he is out of his prime and can't deliver amazing performances anymore ?

He's got Klitchkoitis. Far superior to any of the competition in his weight class.

Ricky_ wrote:

ikorolev wrote:Once again, it seems like K2 and Golovkin's manager are letting him down. He is already 32 and popular enough to make more money and have his opponents make more making fights with him more attractive. When are they planning to pay him ? When he is out of his prime and can't deliver amazing performances anymore ?

He's got Klitchkoitis. Far superior to any of the competition in his weight class.

Yeah, but Wlad makes quite a bit more money than GGG.

I think Danny Garcia made more money in his ridiculous Salka fight after unimpressive performance vs Herrera.

Edit: I was wrong: Gracia made 700,000.

Bradley made more when he was a nobody fighting Casamayor.

Triple G needs to be the good guy to a villain, Pacquiao to the Mayweather, Frazier to the Ali, it's just his bad luck there isn't a villain that could share a ring with him.

I wouldnt feel too bad for GGG. admittedly he could be on better money but 900k isnt to be sniffed at.

He'd make big bucks in fights he oughta win handily vs Canelo or Chavez. Cotto, Froch or Ward too. Unfortunately he'll probably never get Cotto and he may have to move up to make big money. Although, the Germans seem to be happy to pay big money for mismatches, so maybe he can take a few fights there

giacomino wrote:He'd make big bucks in fights he oughta win handily vs Canelo or Chavez. Cotto, Froch or Ward too. Unfortunately he'll probably never get Cotto and he may have to move up to make big money. Although, the Germans seem to be happy to pay big money for mismatches, so maybe he can take a few fights there

I don't think Sturm, Stieglitz or Abraham will dare to fight Golovkin at this point of their careers.