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[the ollie reed fan club]

(05-05-2016 06:00 PM)Dickagon Wrote:  He's good at 160 but that isn't saying as much as Ward was good at 168. Golovkin has fought Allan Greens and no Carl Froch or Mikkel Kessler level of fighters. With Cotto and Canelo they were paper champs at best, guys that want the belt but not to be a champion. And I think it made more sense for Golovkin to move up than Ward.

But there's got to be a reason he started talking about Ward not having a name whenever Ward told him to put up or shut up. And whenever some Kazakh dude is pretending to be Mexican he's already living a lie, maybe as big of a lie as Sanchez was hyping him up with of being the best 160-175. One of them, Ward, is actually doing something at 168 and 175. What's Golovkin doing, being a -1,000 favorite until Canelo is 40 and ready to fight at 160? Ward has his number and he knows it

I don't think it's living a lie, the dude is trying to break America and knows the Latino fan base is important because he sure as hell aint gonna ever get the urban one. Smart marketing IMHO.

As for the Ward fight, to be honest I've heard a bunch of stuff from both camps regarding who would or wouldn't make that fight. Who you believe I think comes down to your bias. As much as I've heard ward say they tried to make this fight I've also heard Tom Loeffler say they had ward in a room with HBO execs and wanted to make the fight and Ward declined at the time.

I really couldn't say definitively who turned down the fight and who didn't and I'm surprised that you think you can.