Golovkin looking sharp in training

By Boxing News - 10/06/2015 - Comments

1-GolovkinLemieuxLAPC_Hoganphotos5By Dan Ambrose: With only 11 days to go before the HBO pay-per-view card headlined by IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) vs. IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) at Madison Square Garden, in New York, Golovkin is looking very, very powerful and in excellent condition in his training camp.

You’d hate to say that the 26-year-old Lemieux has no chance of winning the fight based on looks alone, but I’m starting to think that Golovkin is going to win this fight by a cakewalk.

Fighthype caught video of Golovkin training today at the Wild Card West Boxing Gym in Santa Monica, California. You can see from the video that Golovkin looks in superb shape and ready to get inside the ring to start mixing it up with the slugger Lemieux.

Golovkin is the favorite to win this fight, but not a huge favorite like he’s been in the past. Lemieux’s punching power has the odds-makers wary of stacking the odds against the Canadian fighter. However, this is such a big step up for Lemieux that it’s hard to see him winning.

Lemieux is going from the likes of Hassan N’Dam straight to Golovkin without an intermediary fighter like Tureano Johnson, Jorge Sebastian Heiland, Chris Eubank Jr., Billy Joe Saunders or Arif Magomedov.

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Those are the guys that Lemieux needed to fight before he got in the ring with Golovkin because it would have been the proper step up fights from N’Dam to Golovkin. Lemieux seems to have skipped a couple of steps in going straight to Golovkin, and I think he could wind up paying for that.

“If he [Roach] says that, I’m blessed to be working with him,” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez said to Fighthype about WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s trainer Freddie Roach saying that Golovkin is now the No.1 fighter now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has retired from boxing. “I also believe that he’s one of the best in the world…if Freddie says that, thank you Freddie…I hope that the Canelo fight goes as Freddie sees it. I see a different fight. If that’s the case and Freddie and I come face to face, and Cotto and Gennady come face to face, then I think we’re going to have a terrific fight, because if he [Cotto] beats Canelo then he’s definitely a middleweight and a middleweight to be reckoned with,” Sanchez said.

Of course Canelo is a middleweight. The guy rehydrates to 175 for his fights. If that’s not a middleweight then I don’t know what is. The fact that Canelo can somehow drain down to 155 to still fight against junior middleweights in his special catch-weights that he’s been fighting at for the past year and a half doesn’t erase the fact that he’s basically a middleweight.

You can make an argument that Canelo is really a small super middleweight, because the weight limit for that division is 168lbs, and Canelo routinely rehydrates to above that weight for his fights at junior middleweight.

Lemieux is going to be in for a world of hurt on October 17th unless he can get to Golovkin in the first six rounds. If he doesn’t KO Golovkin in six rounds, then it’s pretty much going to be all over for Lemieux, I hate to say.



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