Cowboys owner wants Golovkin-Canelo fight at AT&T Stadium in Dallas

By Boxing News - 02/10/2016 - Comments

golovkin5554(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Allan Fox: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is interested in playing the host for the proposed fight this year between WBC middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez and Gennady GGG Golovkin at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas. However, Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler is interested in staging the Canelo-Golovkin fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada or Madison Square Garden in New York. Jerry Jones is going to have to make a strong play to get the Golovkin vs. Canelo fight staged at the AT&T Stadium this September.

Those would be good venues for Golovkin because he has a lot of fans in those two areas. Staging the fight in Texas would give Canelo a tremendous advantage because he has a large Mexican fan base in that state that would very likely fill the AT&T Stadium to cheer him on.

Junior middleweight contender Austin Trout found out the hard way how difficult it is to win a decision against Canelo when he fought him in Texas in 2013. Despite the fight being very close and potentially a draw in the eyes of a lot of fans, Canelo was given a lopsided 12 round decision. The judges gave Trout almost no credit for anything he did in that fight. If Golovkin and Loeffler agrees to fight Canelo in Texas, then it’s going to put Golovkin in a situation where he might need a knockout to ensuire that he wins the fight.

The Golovkin-Canelo fight still has a lot of things that will need to happen before the fight can be made. Both fighters have interim fights that they need to win, and they still need to negotiate the fight. Canelo, 25, is talking about wanting a weight handicap for the fight at 155lbs despite weighing more than Golovkin when rehydrated. In other words, Canelo wants an advantage over Golovkin to ensure that he wins the fight. Golovkin may agree to giving Canelo a handicap that he clearly doesn

“Jerry Jones has watched G’s last few fights and he expressed a big interest in having the fight in Dallas at his stadium,” Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler said to TMZ.com. “G will fight anywhere, but he’s aware of Jerry Jones and the atmosphere in his stadium. Whenever Jerry Jones gets involved, he takes promotion to a new level.” You hear 70,000 people screaming … the huge video board… it’s an amazing venue. And G understands the popularity of the Cowboys, the influence they have in the U.S. and around the world. I’d love to see that happen.”

If the Canelo-Golovkin fight gets put together, it’ll likely take place in September on the Mexican Independence Day holiday. Canelo and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions have already said that they’ll be taking the Mexican holidays in May and September for their fights.

Canelo will need to win his next fight against Amir Khan on May 7 in Las Vegas. Golovkin has a potentially easier fight against unbeaten Dominic Wade on April 23 at the Forum in Los Angeles, California. Golovkin and Canelo are expected to win those two interim fights, but you never know what can happen. Canelo has struggled in recent years in winning fights the appeared to lose and getting soundly beaten by Floyd Mayweather Jr.



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