By Dan Ambrose: After last night’s easy 6th round knockout win over a rehydrated 172 pound Willie Monroe Jr. (19-2, 6 KOs), IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) says he’d come down to 154 to fight superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a big money fight.
Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says that the only fighter they would come down to 154 for is Mayweather Jr. Obviously, Sanchez realizes that by Golovkin volunteering to move down to 154 for the Mayweather fight, he could find other junior middleweights or even welterweights choosing to try and fight Golovkin at this weight, hoping that he’s weak enough for them to get an edge against him.
“This is business. Show me the contract,” Golovkin said about a fight against Mayweather last night.
Sanchez said “Only for Floyd. There’s no reason to go down for Canelo. Canelo hasn’t made 154 in three fights over. I’m sure he’ll be moving to 160. But for Floyd, most definitely.”
I wouldn’t assume that Canelo will be moving to 160 any time soon because he seems to have created his own division at 155 with his catch-weight fights, which are at middleweight, but he seems to see them at junior middleweight despite the fact that they’re at middleweight. The middleweight division goes from 155 to 160.
Mayweather would surprise a lot of boxing fans if he were to face Golovkin at 154. Few people believe that Mayweather will elect to fight someone as dangerous as Golovkin.
Mayweather did face Canelo at a 152 pound catch-weight in 2013, but that was against Canelo. It’s a much different story than a fight against Golovkin. Canelo takes a lot of rest breaks in fights due to his problems in gassing out. He doesn’t have Golovkin’s stamina, and he doesn’t have his punching power. He also doesn’t seem to be nearly as smart and as experienced as Golovkin. That’s why it was easy for Mayweather to beat Canelo in their fight in 2013. But with Golovkin, Mayweather would be taking a huge risk because of his punching power, ring intelligence and aggressiveness. As long as Golovkin isn’t weight drained, he would be very dangerous for a fighter like Mayweather, who hasn’t faced a really good fighter at 154 as of yet.
“I’m pretty sure we’re going to find a real solid guy that’s going to push me for that last fight and when I go out, you know, I want to go out with a bang,” Mayweather said via Shade 45 SiriusXM Radio, about his last of his career next September.
I don’t think Mayweather is willing to take a big risk by fighting Golovkin because he’s a completely different animal than the guys that Mayweather has been fighting recently in Manny Pacquiao, Marcos Maidana and Canelo.
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