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WILLIE MONROE JR. TALKS GOLVOKIN VS. BROOK: "TRIPLE G IS A BIG MIDDLEWEIGHT...IT NEGATES KELL BROOK'S SIZE"

By Percy Crawford | July 27, 2016
WILLIE MONROE JR. TALKS GOLVOKIN VS. BROOK:

"Triple G is a big middleweight, so no matter how big of a welterweight they are saying Brook is, Triple G is a big middleweight, so it negates Kell Brook's size as a 'big' fighter. If Triple G was a small middleweight that could make 154 comfortably, then you can say you got a small middleweight against a big welterweight. Triple G says he could make 154, but that's something I gotta see," stated middleweight contender Willie Monroe Jr., who shared his thoughts on the upcoming clash between undefeated middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and undefeated welterweight champion Kell Brook. Check it out!

WILLIE MONROE JR. ON GOLOVKIN VS. BROOK:

"Not only is Triple G a big middleweight, but he's a big puncher at middleweight. I think Kell Brook has the skills, and I'm always like this, you never count a man out because you never know what a man can do, but we all know that the favor lies in Golovkin's hands and that's usually the case when he fights anybody because he's an awesome fighter. But at the end of the day, I just don't like the hypocrisy. I don't think it's right for them to talk so much junk about Canelo, who is a 54-pounder fighting somebody one weight class lower than him, and Triple G gets a pass for fighting someone two weight classes lower than him. It's sad that I have to say this before I mention Triple G or talk about him. He beat me, I get it, he's an awesome fighter, but Triple G's team sticks their foot in their mouth a lot. They'll say that they'll fight anybody from 54 to 68 and then when they bring up Andre Ward, they want weight stipulations and so on, but then they will offer to fight Carl Froch, who was on the verge of retiring, or Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at 168. So it's okay for you to call out a catchweight for Andre Ward, but you don't want to do a catchweight for Canelo?

I'm a student of the game. You remember when De La Hoya fought Bernard Hopkins, they made him come down to like 157 for that fight. But Bernard Hopkins was the undisputed middleweight champion, so how could you make the champion come down? Canelo is a bigger star than Gennady Golovkin, so even though Golovkin has the belts, if he really wants to fight Canelo, he should have the attitude of, "I don't care what it takes to get that man on the other side of the ring so I can fight him." If Canelo wants 155-156, you're telling everybody you would go to 154 to fight a smaller Floyd Mayweather, but you won't go down to 156, 4 pounds, to fight Canelo? There are too many double standards. Im a firm believer in weight classes. I'm old school. I'm not big on the catchweight stuff, but when you're in Rome, you do what the Romans do. You have to adjust too. This is what boxing has turned into. I've said it before and I'll say it again, boxing isn't what it was yesterday and it's not what it's going to be tomorrow. We just have to enjoy what we have and make the best of it.

People always say, "Well, boxing ain't what it used to be." Go back and listen to the commentary of some of the fights around Sugar Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns day and the Hagler fights and all of the guys that people talk about as greats now. The same thing that they say about Floyd and they say about Canelo, they said the same things about them when they were fighting. They were saying that Sugar Ray Leonard couldn't have beat Ray Robinson and he couldn't have touched Willie Pep. You know, people praise Muhammad Ali now, but when he was coming up and he said, "I'm the greatest of all time and I would've beat Joe Louis," people said that was disrespectful. They questioned how he could ever talk about beating Joe Louis or Jack Dempsey or a guy that proceeded you. They said he was out of his mind. Then when you say, "Who is the greatest fighter of all time," what do people say? Muhammad Ali! And that's why I respect what Floyd Mayweather is doing when he say, "TBE!" Floyd Mayweather understands that he's not going to get the credit right now, but 30 years from now, when someone says, "Who was the best fighter ever?" Floyd Mayweather! You don't get your just due in this sport until you're about 20 years removed from it or you're dead.



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