By Dan Ambrose: Tickets for the October 18th, “Mexican style” card between WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) and WBC interim middleweight champion Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs) will be going on sale next Wednesday, August 27th, according to Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions. The Golovkin-Rubio fight will be staged at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

This is the perfect fight for both Golovkin and Rubio, as the winner of the fight stands to gain a lot. If Golovkin beats Rubio, which is likely given his power and talent advantage, he’ll become the mandatory challenger for WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto.

Golovkin will then be able to either force a fight against Cotto or watch him vacate instead of fighting, which will be minor victory for Golovkin. He’ll be seen by hardcore boxing fans as someone who Cotto avoided, and that obviously will help Golovkin’s career.

If Rubio defeats Golovkin, he’ll have his WBA title and will remain as Cotto’s WBC mandatory challenger. Rubio will get tons of respect from the boxing world for taking down what many fans see as the No.1 160 pound fighter in the division in Golovkin.

A victory for Rubio would obviously lead to a well-paying rematch against Golovkin, unless Cotto decided to cut in between them and take the Rubio fight at that time to show fans who the best fighter is in the middleweight division in an oblique manner without facing Golovkin.

Golovkin is counting on winning over a lot of fans with this fight in the Southern California area with his fighting style, which he calls the “Mexican style” that he learned from his trainer Abel Sanchez. He changed Golovkin’s straight up fighting style and turned him into a fighter that throws a lot of shots, and who pressures his opponents constantly to wear them down.

Before Sanchez took over as Golovkin’s trainer, Golovkin was a far different fighter with the way he’d fight mostly on the outside and rarely throw body shots. But with Sanchez’s training, Golovkin has turned into a furious body puncher who wears his opponents down and forces them to run.

Rubio says he’s not going to run from Golovkin on October 18th, as he plans on standing right in front of him and testing his own heavy shots against Golovkin’s. It’s going to be an interesting fight to see which of these two sluggers prevails.