Mayweather -- of course -- launched it earlier this month when he told Southland video reporter Elie Seckbach that Golovkin is “cherry picking” fights in the middleweight division and avoiding unbeaten former super-middleweight champion Andre Ward.
“We’ve yet to see Triple G move up in weight classes,” Mayweather told Seckbach. “So when it’s all said and done, when we’re talking about cherry picking, I think it’s really Triple G that’s cherry picking. He never called out Andre Ward, he’s ducking and dodging Andre Ward.
“I think he should move up to 168 pounds and move up to light-heavyweight [where Sergey Kovalev owns three 175-pound belts] and see what he can do. I went from 130 pounds to 135 pounds to 140 pounds to 147 pounds to 154 pounds – and I wasn’t even a 154-pounder.”