Why Are Floyd and GGG Sniping at Each Other?
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Let's get this out of the way up front: Mayweather and Golovkin aren't going to fight, nor should they fight.
But, apparently, that's not going to stop the chirping between the sport's pound-for-pound king and the man who is most likely to ascend to that throne once Money inevitably steps down.
Golovkin told TMZ last week that a Mayweather bout would be his "dream fight" and that he was "ready for anybody," including the boxing's undisputed top draw and consensus best fighter.
Mayweather didn't take too long to respond to GGG's somewhat innocuous comments, telling (h/t TMZ): "He [Golovkin] can't beat me. I seen him in his last fight, I didn't even know who that guy was. If I'd have worked with the guy that guy could've beat him."
Mayweather made it clear that he respects Golovkin's accomplishments in the ring but that he doesn't believe the Kazakh destroyer would have a chance of taking his elusive zero.
We can debate this question endlessly.
And we'll do it to no real end.
For this fight to even be a remote possibility, Golovkin would need to drop down
at least to 154 pounds—where he's never fought in his professional career—and the weight drain would immediately compromise the competition.
Is it a dream fight?
Maybe.
But like so many other dream fights, it will and should remain that way.