By Allan Fox: Trainer Abel Sanchez thinks it’s completely ridiculous for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to want Gennady Golovkin to move up to light heavyweight to fight Andre Ward before he’ll agree to fight him. Sanchez thinks that it would be too hard on Golovkin to move up in weight to fight Ward, and then have to come all the way down to 154 immediately after to face Mayweather.
Sanchez points out that Golovkin was willing to move up to 168 in the past for a fight against Carl Froch and move down to 154 to fight Mayweather. However, a fight against Froch would have been a big money fight for Golovkin with him making potentially $10 million at the minimum and possibly as much as $15 million.
Froch is capable of selling out the 80,000 seat Wembley Stadium in London, England. Froch is a pay-per-view attraction. Ward is not a PPV star, and he’s arguably not capable of selling out an 80,000 seat stadium at this point in his career.