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Shame on Gennady “GGG” Golovkin & Tom Loeffler for this Latest Farce Against Kell Brook! – Biting Boxing Commentary

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Tom-Loeffler-Gennady-GolovkinBy Dave “Madcap” Mroczek

I really hate writing articles that are negative and I don’t’ like running boxing down. But lately I have been left with no choice. Enough, is enough, is ENOUGH! Middleweight Champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin is set to face welterweight champion Kell “Special K” Brook in what should be a completely uninteresting and one sided beating. This is the reality of our sport, fight fans, and it is getting worse by the day. It is becoming indefensible, and boxing is on the fast track to being totally irrelevant as a major sport.

There is a reason weight classes exist in this sport. That is to make the fights a fair sporting contest, to ensure that the men are physically somewhat evenly matched so that the man with more skill can prove himself. Instead, with the recent fight between Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan, and now this lame Golovkin versus Brook pairing, what we are getting are men selling their big names in exchange for a pile of money, and a whooping by a much bigger and more talented fighter.

Take a look around the middleweight division. There is Golovkin, Alvarez, Jacobs, Saunders, and a few other guys that could really make this division the best in the sport. These guys should be fighting one another to determine who is the best. Instead they have all found a corner to sit in alone, and tremble in fear at the prospect of facing anyone, you know, worthy of being in the same building as themselves.

Boxing, when it used to be great, was about the best facing the best. Now the best don’t want anything to do with the best. They don’t want anything to do with the next to the best either. Or anyone in the top ten. Or twenty. Or the next weight class lower. Floyd Mayweather, JR. was supposedly too small to face “GGG”, but he has no qualms about beating the snot out of his lower ranked counterpart Brook.

Is this what this sport is becoming? This is like watching the high school senior football team pummeling the freshman chess squad. Nobody wants to see it. We know what the outcome will be. Yet when a rival school’s senior team shows up looking for some action they are nowhere to be found. These are not the big tough guys they make themselves out to be. These are cowards who fear anyone who might have a chance, and choose to bully fighters who are at a great disadvantage. That is what professional boxing is becoming. Professional bullying.
All of the Gennady Golovkin fart-catching fan boys out there will say “but nobody will fight him”. Wrong. Golovkin’s promoters don’t want to pry open their wallet and pay a good opponent a reasonable purse. They say: “Golovkin is so dominant, no one dares face him”. Wrong. He has defeated only one top ten middleweight in David Lemieux, other than that he has mainly feasted on low budget opponents. If the man is so dominant that middleweights can’t hang with him, as they claim, why not move up or bring in someone bigger for an actual test? Or, you know, actually make the fight against the other elite level middleweight in the world?

It is because they don’t want a test. They want to suck up the last few million fan dollars left. Now that the American river of boxing dollars is drying up faster than the Hoover Dam, the only mark left is the boxing mad British fans. They always get behind their man, like they did with Khan. Win or lose they always come out in droves, and bring their wallets too. Hopefully they don’t have to see their hometown man get concussed too badly.

There are plenty of good middleweights in the world. There are plenty of good super welterweights in the world. There are plenty of good super middleweights. Why go so far down to find an opponent? Is a big name all you need to make a fight nowadays? How about Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez versus Tyson Fury for the heavyweight championship of the world? Obviously that is an extreme example, but where is the line going to be drawn? Does one of these overmatched fighters need to die in the ring before anyone puts a stop to this?
Time was if a fighter was too much to handle at his own weight class they would be progressively moved up until the fights were fair. Roy Jones, JR. comes to mind. Here was a man that could have stayed at super middleweight his whole career based on his size, but ended up at light heavyweight, cruiserweight and even a short foray into the heavyweight ranks. He managed his career carefully too, and chose his opponents wisely also. But he certainly was not chicken livered like the current crop of top fighters. Roy Jones, JR. was never such a good light heavyweight that he had to take on a middleweight to prove it.

Fighters used to have something called “fighting pride”. Which a long time ago meant that if you thought you were the best, and someone else did too, then you had to fight to prove it. They didn’t used to need big money and catchweights, all they needed was a challenge, a worthy adversary, and the ability to prove themselves. They will wait and wait and wait before making this Golovkin Vs Alvarez fight. They supposedly have a verbal deal to have the fight in September 2017. They will claim it is to make the fight bigger, richer, more ripe for the plucking. In reality all this does is allow one or both men time to build up excuses, change weight classes, or perhaps lose to one of their hapless opponents. There is no reason not to make the fight now, this smells too fishy.

Kell Brook cannot be blamed for taking this fight. I’m sure it pays a few quid. It is a no lose situation for him. If he loses, even in terrible fashion, his career will be fine because he has no business winning this fight anyway. If he wins, it will be one of the most massive upsets of all time and make him a legendary fighter. Same can be said of Amir Khan for his Canelo Alvarez fight. Golovkin enjoyed a moment of pride when he forced Canelo Alvarez to discard his WBC belt to avoid facing him. Now he is proving he is no more worthy of fan praise than Canelo by taking on such a dismal fight.

What these fights do say about the stronger of the two parties is this: these men are afraid to take on any sort of challenge. While they could be facing one another in a career defining, legacy forming, legendary status inducing mega fight or series of fights, they choose not to. It is not the money. It is not the pride. It speaks deeply to their character. These men would rather don their senior varsity jackets and thump a few freshmen than face anyone on their level, and it’s about time boxing fans started getting sick and tired of this bullying.

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