By Dan Ambrose: The tickets for the April 23 fight between IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and Dominic Wade are literally selling like hotcakes for their fight at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
With exactly two months to go before the fight, 8000 tickets have already been sold and it seems almost academic that the fight will sellout. It’ll be televised on HBO Championship Boxing, so fans that couldn’t get tickets will still be able to see it live. If Golovkin can sellout tickets like this against an over-matched opponent like the 25-year-old Wade, then what kind of tickets sales will we be looking at in a Golovkin vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight later this year? We might be talking about a fight that could sell out the 80,000 seat AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Of course, that would require that Canelo agree to fight Golovkin, and right now it’s still not known whether the 25-year-old Canelo will ever agree to take that fight. I take that back. I do think Canelo will agree to fight Golovkin in the future, but it might not be until he gets a little older and starts showing signs of having lost some of his power and talent.