By Jose Muradas: Boxing needs mega-rivalries that will bring a buzz back to the sport. It’s time for boxing to knock MMA on it’s backside. We know that Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao will never happen. Pacquiao looks to be on the downside of his career, Marquez is one fight away from retirement. Once Mayweather leaves the star power in boxing is gone.
My suggestion is to start building new rivalries now. Now is the time for boxing to start making the fights that will create those rivalries. The fighter at the center of it all: Gennady Golovkin. He is a machine,and reminds me of a young Roberto Duran. He can box, he can punch, and oh my, can he punch! He will fight anybody in his division, he shows no fear, and he is must see boxing. Fighters, such as Canelo Alvarez, Carl Froch, and Peter Quillin, would make for heated rivalries.
The sport should start to look to it’s middleweight division,there are some big punchers in that division and with Sergio Martinez out until early 2014, it would only intensify once he returned. Sergio would need to fight Martin Murray again, and also a rematch with Julio Chavez Jr. wouldn’t hurt.
The junior welterweight and welterweight divisions would also need to push the same type of matchmaking. It would be nice to see Marcos Maidana vs. Adrien Broner, Keith Thurman vs. Devon Alexander, Lucas Matthysse vs. Danny Garcia, if Golden Boy can finalize it. The point is there are some good fighters out there and boxing needs to take advantage of that now.
If GGG continues to knockout his opponents in the fashion that he has done, then more fans will want to see who else is out there. It’s a matter of building the next generation of stars, and trust me boxing has them.
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