(Photo Credit: Rich Kane – Hoganphotos/K2 Promotions & Golden Boy Promotions) By Dan Ambrose: IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) thinks he’s being overlooked in his fight against IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) on October 17th, and he says that Golovkin had better be paying attention when he gets inside the ring with him at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Golovkin and his team have kind of been looking beyond the 26-year-old Lemieux to a potentially much bigger fight against the winner of the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto fight on November 21st. There’s a lot of money involved for Golovkin if he can get to the fight against the winner of the Cotto-Canelo fight. But more important than that is the status that Golovkin would gain in beating Canelo or Cotto. It would be a big deal for him if he could do that.