No offers made to Golovkin

By Boxing News - 09/03/2014 - Comments

golovkin66By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: Before I get started, I want to point out that I’m a big Andre Ward fan as my main focus will be on him. I enjoy watching him fight. I’m not that big of fan of Gennady Golovkin (GGG), but I highly respect him in what he’s trying to accomplish. But there are few misconceptions about Golovkin being offered big fights.

I’m not here to talk about fighters resumes, but rather who has offered what. There is a difference between saying “I want to fight” someone and actually placing a deal on the table. The former has happened, but the latter has not. Indeed, Carl Froch and his promoter, Eddie Hearn had expressed a fight with GGG, but no formal contract was offered.

A response however, was offered. Hearn told boxingnewsonline.net that Froch would not get the money he deserves. He also pointed out that HBO said that GGG/Froch fight is not a pay per view fight whereas a Julio Cesar Chavez fight is. Miguel’s Cotto’s advisor offered up the same reason for trying to put together with GGG. He told the boxingvoice.com that GGG hasn’t reached the majors in boxing and has not participated in a pay per view event yet.

The WBC, which Cotto represent has already said that the winner of the Marco Antonio Rubio and Golovkin. In my opinion, regardless of the winner, there won’t be any offers made. Cotto would probably sooner vacate and fight Canelo Alvarez for a bigger pay day.

The only serious offer Golovkin got was from Top Rank when he was to fight Chavez in July of this year. Golovkin signed his contract, but Top Rank gummed up the fight when they tried to get Chavez to sign a contract extension. Andre Ward is a whole other situation in itself. Yes Andre Ward has said he will fight Golovkin but there has no contracts issued.

No offers made. Only talk. But before Ward can talk about fighting, he needs to get on the same page with his promoter Dan Gossen. Ward has only had two fights since he emerged victorious from the super six tournament (Chad Dawson and Edwin Rodriguez).

I believe Ward can move up to the light heavyweight division, but doesn’t want to. He stated he was super middleweight fighter and there were plenty of fights left there. He has been offered fights against Mikkel Kessler, Andre Dirrell and Sakio Bika. He said those fights would be moving backward not forward so else is there?

He told the ringmagazineonline.com that there was only one interesting fight up north and that was Sergi Kovalev. An interesting scenario could pop up for Ward after depending on the winner of the Bernard Hopkins/Kovalev. Should Hopkins win, he might go after Adonis Stevenson’s belt. Should he win that fight, he might retire leaving the belts vacant.

Should Kovalev win, he would that would draw much interest because Kovalev is young. Maybe to no fault of his own, Ward still hasn’t been in the ring consistent enough. Meanwhile, his outside the ring nemesis, Golovkin is staying busy. Even if it’s against what some may consider second tier opponents, he’s remaining active.

Ward’s injuries have also kept him sidelined (he was hurt against Rodriguez and it cost him a shot at Kelly Pavlik). It’s interesting to hear Ward talk about GGG’s fight falling apart because Ward was also pursuing a pay per view fight with Chavez. But until there is a formal contract on the table for Golovkin, no one can say anything.



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