Klitschko-Klitschko
Golovkin-Mayweather

Third one, I dunno. Matthyse-Broner sounds like a fun idea.

Rigo v. Mikey Garcia at 126

Mayweather v. GGG at 154

Mayweather v. Martinez at 154

Edit: realistic match-ups:

Canelo v. Cotto at 154

Kovalev v. Stevenson at 175

Matthysse v. Maidana at 147

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Yeah I choose this for my third.

Caught this late last night, damn what a fight.

lol what does that mean? he sees how great his brother is, doesn't think he's nearly as good, so he stops boxing? weird.

question for the die hard know-it-all's (mean that as a compliment, i swear) in here: should gggg (4th g is for GOAT ) find a new promotional team? like top rank or gbp or even mayweather? k2 seems to be dumping him in a bunch of fights, but none bigger than the last. i realize there are politics to this, as stated above by partygirluk, but wouldnt tr/gbp help build his american following more? that ny crowd was chanting "triple g" and it was stephens home town area, but there was only 4k ppl in attendance.

tia for responses.

I'm not a know-it-all but def a diehard. I'll give it a shot. The honest answer is I don't know. Short-term I think he should stay with K2 because they are affiliated with HBO who has the best potential match-ups for him (Chavez, Martinez, Ward). They seem to have an excellent working-relationship with Top Rank, which is better than actually joining TR. (Arum is shady and ggg would be locked-in for a long contract (likely) that would be unfavorable in the long-run.) Plus HBO has taken a liking to GGG and has invested a decent amount of money/airtime in making him the main event of several cards. Also, HBO has been airing recent Euro fights in an effort to attract those fighters to potentially fight ggg (or ward). I think HBO showed the recent froch/kessler fight (on delay) and has previously shown Tommy Gun, Sakio Bika, and E-rod. K2 is based in europe, where basically all of the top MW/SMWs are at (aside from quillin/martinez), so that works in their favor as well (at least theoretically). If the big name euro MWs wanted to fight on that side of the pond, K2 is a reputatable promoter out there (esp. in germany).

HBO/K2 have approached all the top MWs and they have for the most part said "no," which I don't think would change if he were GB/TR. Also, he if he stays with K2, he potentially has the mobility to fight on Showtime (if the fight/money was right [I'm thinking mayweather here]), but this would effectively cut-off ties with HBO (possibly permanently). HBO still reaches more people/subscribers than showtime, although GBP has been on fire this year with its cards and it looks to be the leader in boxing going forward. I think it might be the "spot" to fight in the future/long-term, but HBO will always have more subscribers and casual viewers. Also, showtime/gbp has like 2 MWs (quillin and jacobs) at the moment, and is more invested in the lower weight classes. So, I think it would be best to stay affiliated w/ HBO and not under contract w/ TR.

I predict, in the near future, the cold-war will have to end because of the limited amount of fights b/w TR fighters on HBO. Until then it seems best to stay on HBO for GGG. If he were a 140-147 fighter it would be completely different story. GBP is stacked in those divisions and it much better imo than TR, notwithstanding pac/marquez/bradley.

GGG - Ward at 168
GGG - Mayweather at 154
Stevenson - Kovalov at 175

Runner ups

Ward - Winner of Stevenson/Kovalov at 175
Klitchko - Klutchko at HW
Barker - Geale II at 160
Mayweather - Manny at 147

Agreed with robust on GGG. K2 seems to be doing fine. It takes time to build matchups sometimes, especially when the best is injured, and a few of the other better ones (Barker, Geale, Sturm) are fighting each other.

Don't forget Macklin. BS has him ranked 7 or 8 at 160, and that's after GGG destroyed him. Murray hasn't fought since Martinez either.

If K2 can't get a top 5 fighter at 160 or 168 for him by fall 2014 then I would start to think they aren't doing a good enough job, but I'd be very surprised if that doesn't happen.

thanks, robust. appreciate the long / well-explained response.

Klitschkos
Mayweather/Pacman
GGG/Froch

I'd like to see Deontay Wilder fight one of the Klitschkos. Guy is 30-0 all wins by KO. He'd even have the height and reach advantage on them.

Would like to see that too but he doesn't have one semi-big name on his record. He should fight someone like Povetkin, Helenius, Chisora or Adamek

I don't know why he hasn't yet. He's 27 with thirty fights and no losses under his belt. How has he not fought a big name yet? Wonder if he's been avoided like GGG.

He's the Great Black Hope of the HW division.

Wow, I thought it was bad for Abdusalamov after he kept asking about his face over and over. I really hope he pulls through. It would be such a sad ending.

Had never heard of him. He can save the division if he can go toe to toe with the Klitchkos. Hope that matchup happens soon.
I was looking at some youtube highlights and the guy is a maniac, throws wild punches with very little regard to technique but incredible power.If he can catch Wlad with one of those shots though it's game over.
I would guess he hasn't fought any big names yet because their staff is being overly cautious while trying to improve his technique.

What an absolute terrible quality of a fight this turned out to be.

A lot of people say Wilder is severely overhyped.

I don't personally have an opinion. I had jumped in during round 2 when he was fighting the guy who looks like he's a butcher in his day job. He looked great in that fight. After the fight I read a lot of people laughing at Wilder for being "rocked by a jab." So I watch the first minute on youtube or one of those video sites, and I see that indeed he did get rocked by a jab in the first 10-15 secs of the fight, a little wobby and was hit a few times on the attack.

He's fighting guys with double digit losses on their record. It's like watching Stevens vs his last opponent and saying "****, Ward is finished if he ever steps foot in the ring against Stevens."

So, I'd like to see Wilder fight some better guys too, but most places don't even have him ranked top 10 in the HW division, so he should probably start with Arreola level guys, unless he just wants a Klitchko payday.

Lots of questions still about Wilder I agree. He doesn't deserve a title shot yet even though most would like to see it.

I noticed that too. Can only think Top 10 guys are ducking him unless his promoter sucks. Not sure who he is with

There was a slight problem in that Towers can't actually fight . Makes me laugh that he was sparring with Klitschko, Haye and Wilder. I had seen Browne fight b4 but never seen Towers. Browne hits hard though....

Good match up:

Browne vs Wilder

Browne could well be matched up against Price in the near future.

Price beats Browne with ease i think .. even though the Price hype train has fallen off the bridge lately.

Towers was unbelievably bad .... Towers vrs Tom Dallas would be the worst fight of all time.

I see John McDermott v Ian Lewison has been made for the end of the month, what an exhibition of technical boxing we're in for there.

That heavyweight brawl was so refreshing to see in that division. Perez has incredible hand speed for a heavyweight.

Russian puncher Magomed Abdusalamov took a turn for the worse earlier this morning. On Saturday night, Magomed (18-1, 18KOs) suffered numerous injuries during his ten round decision loss to Cuba's Mike Perez (20-0, 12KOs) at the Theater in New York's Madison Square Garden. There were plenty of power punches thrown and landed by both fighters in their HBO televised showcase, but Perez racked up the points to win on scores of 97-92, 95-94 and 97-92.

Earlier today, BoxingScene.com reported that during the fight Magomed broke his left hand, broke his nose and he was taken to a local hospital where a small blood clot was discovered on the brain.

Late last night, Magomed's manager, Boris Grinberg, told BoxingScene the fighter was doing fine after doctors tended to his injuires. But a few hours later the boxer began to complain of headaches and was feeling ill. Doctors at Roosevelt Hospital placed him an self-induced coma to reduce the possibility of any serious complications stemming from the blood clot.

Magomed's exact condiction won't be known until Monday. His promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz, is on his way to Thailand for the WBC's convention and is unavailable for comment.

I would edge towards Browne. While Price is more skilful I doubt he could take one of Browne's big bombs. Price is coming off 2 losses to Thompson too and I am pretty sure Browne bangs a lot harder than Thompson.

If he cant hurt Browne then no way does Price last 12 rounds

I would go for Browne KO within 5 rounds