Well, this is what happens when your opponent is caught cheating and drops out of the fight. Ask Deontay Wilder, he's familiar with this situation.
Well, this is what happens when your opponent is caught cheating and drops out of the fight. Ask Deontay Wilder, he's familiar with this situation.
Big difference there is that Wilder then went to fight his mandatory who was Bermane Stiverne. Also, there weren't other fighters willing to step in.
In this situation you have IBF mandatory Sergiy Derevyachenko, and Demetrius Andrade both willing to step in and fight. Both clearly superior fighters to Spike O'Sullivan. They instead opt for the easiest option which, I hate to say it, has always been team Golovkin's MO.
Big difference there is that Wilder then went to fight his mandatory who was Bermane Stiverne. Also, there weren't other fighters willing to step in.
In this situation you have IBF mandatory Sergiy Derevyachenko, and Demetrius Andrade both willing to step in and fight. Both clearly superior fighters to Spike O'Sullivan. They instead opt for the easiest option which, I hate to say it, has always been team Golovkin's MO.
I'll invent a new Boxing principle termed "Golovkin's Razor". Analogous to Occam's Razor, when presented with the toughest opponents, you take the easiest one.
GGG sent out an offer to Lara and Lara never responded. Also occum's razor is about hypothesis's which make the least assumptions most likely being the right hypothesis.he refused to fight Ward, which at the time I didn't begrudge him because they were different weight classes. But his rationale was he wanted "All the Belts" first. Which now looks like an excuse to stay at 160.
Don't forget him and his team avoided Lara like the plague, and even opted for Willie Monroe Jr. instead. Their excuse was HBO didn't approve of the Lara fight yet somehow managed to approve of Willie Monroe and Dominic Wade. Not saying they ducked BJS, but he confirmed the money the offered him was way less than what was being reported.
Now you have a situation where you have 3 fighters in the running to fight Golovkin, and 2 of them are clearly superior to the 3rd, and he goes with the 3rd. No one's going to buy O'Sullivan is a better opponent than Andrade or Derevyachenko (His IBF mandatory btw). No matter how Loeffler tries to spin it.
The way Golovkin attacked Canelo following his positive test, you would assume he would never work with them again. One has to wonder why would he attack him like that if he plans to fight him again in September.
GGG sent out an offer to Lara and Lara never responded. Also occum's razor is about hypothesis's which make the least assumptions most likely being the right hypothesis.
still bummed if it is O'Sullivan. That's a wack fight.
Big difference there is that Wilder then went to fight his mandatory who was Bermane Stiverne. Also, there weren't other fighters willing to step in.
In this situation you have IBF mandatory Sergiy Derevyachenko, and Demetrius Andrade both willing to step in and fight. Both clearly superior fighters to Spike O'Sullivan. They instead opt for the easiest option which, I hate to say it, has always been team Golovkin's MO.
He fought a dirty Canelo and a bad ass Jacobs, back to back. How the fuck is that Occam's Razor?I'll invent a new Boxing principle termed "Golovkin's Razor". Analogous to Occam's Razor, when presented with the toughest opponents, you take the easiest one.
lol at golovkin ducking lara.
the lara that had never once fought at 160? that lara? i like erislandy and i think he's being avoided like the plague at 154, but i'd take his bullshit a lot more serious if he actually fought a middleweight before declaring that the MW kingpin refuses to fight him.
canelo beat lara by walking him down and breaking his body. canelo, who does his back work countering and moving backwards, fucked him up to the body on the ropes. but golovkin, who at the same time was destroying people left and right in those exact same spots, was apparently shitting himself when he thought of lara.
sure. what i don't agree with is that lara wanted it and golovkin refused. i think lara said he wanted it, but then sat tight and did fuck all.Regardless of how you thought the fight would play out, I think anyone can agree that he would've been a superior choice to Willie Monroe or Dominic Wade.