By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya says he likes the idea of matching his fighter WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs) up against WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs), and he likes the 31-year-old Quillin’s chances of beating Golovkin if that fight takes place.
De La Hoya said “Would love to see @KIDCHOCOLATE [Quillin] vs. GGG. My Latino brother [Quillin] would do a number on the G man.”
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions responded back, saying “Would love to see that fight too.”
Loeffler didn’t pursue the fight beyond those words. He obviously sees that a bout between Golovkin and Quillin isn’t going to happen. With the kind of match-making that’s being done for Quillin, it very could be that he’s being put on ice for a potential fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr or Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in the future. Quillin is someone that Golden Boy is going to keep in the freezer with a do not touch sign on him until one of those big stars needs a guy with an unbeaten record to fight.
Quillin’s adviser Al Haymon is the one that picks and chooses the types of opponents that Quillin takes, and it’s not likely that the fight will take place. In just looking at the guys that Quillin has faced since he won the WBO 160 pound title in 2012, it seems pretty clear that Golovkin is someone that will likely never face Quillin in the future.
Here are the fighters that Quillin has faced since he won his title: Lukas Konecny, Gabriel Rosado, and Fernando Guerrero. For Quillin’s next fight, he could face Andy Lee, another safe pick.
It would be a good fight if Golovkin and Quillin were to face, but given how hurt and frightened looking Quillin looked after getting hit hard by Rosado in their fight last October, I doubt that Quillin would last even 3 rounds against Golovkin. Quillin is too easy to hit, and he seems shaky when getting hit solid.
Quillin has only faced one decent opponent during his entire 9-year pro career and that was Rosado, who had him hurt and flustered looking. Their fight was halted in the 10th due to Rosado being cut. Had it gone a little longer, Quillin might have had problems. Little known fighter Dionisio Miranda had Quillin staggered and hurt in their fight in 2008.
It just seems like Quillin is going to keep being matched as softly as possible against the safest opponents until he gets a fight against either Canelo or Mayweather in the future. The problem is that with Quillin being matched against weak opposition, it’s keeping him from becoming popular. If you contrast the buzz that surrounds Golovkin’s fights with those of Quillin’s there’s no comparison, even though Quillin is knocking out a lot of his opponents. Quillin isn’t being matched against the right guys, and he hasn’t looked all that great against the weak guys he’s facing.
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