By Chris Williams: Andre Ward says IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will need to awnswer to the boxing public for failing to step it up and face him in a fight. Ward says he doesn’t call Golovkin by his nickname “GGG”, because to him he’s just “Little G” because he doesn’t want to step up to the plate to take the difficult fights like one against him.
Ward sees Golovkin being hounded by his failure to fight him for a long time to come. We hear how Golovkin’s team and fans hound WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for him not agreeing to fight against him. But on the flipside of that, Golovkin is doing the same thing that he feels Canelo is doing by not stepping up to take the fight against Ward.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. thinks Golovkin is getting a pass by the media for his failure to take the challenge to fight Ward. It’s strange how Golovkin isn’t skewered by the press like Canelo is.
“I just don’t like it from the standpoint of not being able to deliver that fight to the fans,” said Ward to Fighthype.com about Golovkin. “That’s the only part I don’t like. I don’t bring his team up. I don’t bring that guy up. We’re aware of what’s said. I think it’s a small thing, man. What goes on with that guy and his career, it’s none of my business. I don’t talk about him unless I’m asked about him, but they seem to always have something to say about us. That’s on them. They have to answer for not stepping up to fight. They got to have an answer for that. Instead of being honest about it, they try to bad mouth. That’s alright. I know the truth. I know who I am. I know what took place,” said Ward.
I think it’s obvious that Golovkin and his team don’t want the Ward fight. It’s too bad though because it would help answer a lot of questions about Golovkin that fans have. Golovkin has been fighting a lot of lesser fighters during his career, and we don’t know how good he is. Golovkin has a 35-0 record, but those wins have come against largely weaker opposition.
The only good fighter out of the bunch was Kassim Ouma, and he gave Golovkin a real beating in their fight years ago. That was a very tough fight for Golovkin. That was a fight that similar to the one that Golovkin lost in the Olympic finals in 2004 in his 28-18 defeat to Russian Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov. Golovkin was really roughed up in that fight and was lucky the fight was just four rounds instead of a 12 rounder. I think Golovkin would have been knocked out by Gaydarbekov if it had gone much farther. Golovkin was tired and getting roughed up by the bigger, stronger Russian Gardarbekov.
It’s a doable fight between Ward and Golovkin because Ward could come down to super middleweight and Golovkin could come up in weight.
Ward is showing his courage by moving up to light heavyweight to fight Sergey Kovalev in that weight class. The least that Golovkin could do is move up one weight class to fight Ward so that the fans can see how good he is.