Sanchez: Golovkin isn’t ready for a Ward fight

By Boxing News - 01/06/2014 - Comments

golovkin41By Allan Fox: Abel Sanchez, the trainer for WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (28-0, 25 KO’s), says they’re not ready to move up to the 168 lb. division to face WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward at this time. Sanchez says that Golovkin is ready to face him in terms of being capable of taking the fight, but they still have too many fighters at 160 that they still haven’t fought yet.

Sanchez sees it as pointless for Golovkin to move up in weight to fight Ward at this time when there are a lot of interesting fights that still need to be made for Golovkin in the middleweight division.

Ward really wants the Golovkin fight, and that’s one of the many reasons why Ward isn’t ready to move up to the light heavyweight division, even though he’s cleaned out the super middleweight division already by beating Carl Froch, Mikkel Kessler, Sakio Bika, Arthur Abraham and Edwin Rodriguez.

“Physically and technically and mentally? Yes,” Sanchez said to RingTV. “I would like Golovkin to be on par with Andre Ward as far as what he has done in his division so that when it comes to a fight, we’re not [negotiating] as an opponent. We want to move up after destroying every fighter who wants to fight us at 160 so that we an be on par with Andre Ward.”

Ward is kind of wasting his time in the 168 lb. division. There’s no one left for him to fight, and guys like Froch, Kessler and Abraham don’t want to fight him, or at least they haven’t shown a strong interest of wanting to get in the ring with him. Ward is at the point where he’s offering a fight to George Groves. That’s probably a big fight for Ward at this point, because there’s no else for him to get in the ring with other than Groves and/or perhaps James DeGale, if his promoter would allow him fight Ward.

Golovkin is in a situation where he’s so good in middleweight division that he can’t get the other top middleweights to fight him. Sergio Martinez wants no part of Golovkin, and neither does Felix Sturm, Daniel Geale and Peter Quillin. Sanchez is kidding himself if he thinks that Golovkin is going to be able to get any big fights at 160. Probably the best that Golovkin can get is a fight against someone like Martin Murray. The other guys won’t agree to fight him, and he could end up waiting years before he finally figures that out.



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