Finally a straight answer at the insistence of the reporters! Nu b/s ducking the question answers!
More or less admitting it's all about the money now. The easier the better, but then that's what boxing is all about, and always has been. Murata is an understandable target, and from the look of it an easy fight to make.
It's a long, difficult and dangerous road to the top. Even when you get there, one slip and you fall off. To get back again depends on a lot of things often outside your control, often a lot (too many) concessions to be made.
To a newcomer, boxing politics must seem unfathomable. Why don't certain fights get made? Why don't sanctioning bodies enforce more mandatory defences? What's all this A side business all about? What are purse bids? Why so many belts and divisions? How do the rankings work?
The answer is, basically, a bit like most of world history, its all about the money. Fighting is secondary.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
Posted: 06 May 2018, 15:16
by gilgamesh
I'll bet he would. Murata poses no threat whatsoever to Golovkin.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
Finally a straight answer at the insistence of the reporters! Nu b/s ducking the question answers!
More or less admitting it's all about the money now. The easier the better, but then that's what boxing is all about, and always has been. Murata is an understandable target, and from the look of it an easy fight to make.
It's a long, difficult and dangerous road to the top. Even when you get there, one slip and you fall off. To get back again depends on a lot of things often outside your control, often a lot (too many) concessions to be made.
To a newcomer, boxing politics must seem unfathomable. Why don't certain fights get made? Why don't sanctioning bodies enforce more mandatory defences? What's all this A side business all about? What are purse bids? Why so many belts and divisions? How do the rankings work?
The answer is, basically, a bit like most of world history, its all about the money. Fighting is secondary.
Very true.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
Posted: 06 May 2018, 15:26
by apollo creed
gilgamesh wrote: ↑06 May 2018, 15:16
I'll bet he would. Murata poses no threat whatsoever to Golovkin.
Actually GGG vs Murata in Tokyo would do big numbers.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
gilgamesh wrote: ↑06 May 2018, 15:16
I'll bet he would. Murata poses no threat whatsoever to Golovkin.
Actually GGG vs Murata in Tokyo would do big numbers.
I don't doubt it. A Japanese Middleweight Champion is unheard of so I'm sure they're very proud of him in Japan, and Japanese fight fans have a tendency to have unrealistic expectations of their fighters.
As Pride FC showed routinely with their matchmaking.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
gilgamesh wrote: ↑06 May 2018, 15:16
I'll bet he would. Murata poses no threat whatsoever to Golovkin.
Actually GGG vs Murata in Tokyo would do big numbers.
I don't doubt it. A Japanese Middleweight Champion is unheard of so I'm sure they're very proud of him in Japan, and Japanese fight fans have a tendency to have unrealistic expectations of their fighters.
As Pride FC showed routinely with their matchmaking.
Yup. They worship their fighters.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
Posted: 06 May 2018, 17:32
by SenorPipino
There's always a lot of money in traveling to Japan to take on a local champion, so I can see that it's the smart way to go.
And it doesn't hurt that Murata really isn't all that imposing.
Re: Abel Sanchez says if no Canelo II then he'd like to see GGG fighting Murata
Posted: 06 May 2018, 17:44
by greg
..boxing is a big business, fortunately for some, unfortunately for others..
