Hearn thinks Froch will only comeback for Golovkin fight

1-golovkin (5)By Scott Gilfoid: While Carl Froch recently said that he might be interested in making a comeback to fight IBF super middleweight champion James DeGale if he beats Lucian Bute this month in their fight on November 28th, Froch’s promoter Eddie Hearn believes that the only fighter that will get Froch to come out of retirement is IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.

With the huge money that Froch made in his last fight against George Groves in 2014, which was said to be £8m [$12 million USD], Hearn thinks the only fight that would get Froch to comeback would be Golovkin. Hearn has a pretty good idea how the British boxing public would take to a Froch-DeGale fight, and he must be thinking that it wouldn’t be nearly as big a deal as Froch seems to think it would be.

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Roach says Golovkin’s PPV numbers aren’t high enough for Cotto fight

Boxing: Golovkin vs LemieuxBy Dan Ambrose: If trainer Freddie Roach has any say so in the matching of WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs), he won’t be facing IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) anytime soon if ever. Roach says he spoke with Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez recently in California and told him point blank that Golovkin’s PPV numbers aren’t high enough for him to fight Cotto.

Roach says that if Golovkin can raise his PPV numbers, then he’d have a fight against the 35-year-old Cotto.

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It’s Canelo that Needs GGG to be Great

1-GolovkinLemieux_Hoganphotos2By Timothy Bladel: Supposing Saul “Canelo” Alvarez defeats WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto on November 21st, the attention will quickly turn to a potential mega fight with Gennady Golovkin (GGG). Both fighters have much to gain from this matchup. However, a win for Canelo catapults him into new territory.

For GGG, it is a shot at The Ring Magazine middleweight lineal title (the man who beat the man), another unification belt, and a marketable name he has been hunting. For Canelo, he gets a shot at solidifying his standing as the next big thing by unifying three middleweight belts, and doing so by taking out one of the most feared men in boxing today. It’s the kind of win that makes legends, an upset victory over a feared fighter – where have we heard this story before?

Canelo has a strong resume for a guy who is only 25 years old, yet how much respect has that garnered him? He isn’t considered a top P4P boxer on most lists. Ring doesn’t have him in the top ten, with guys like Terence Crawford and Kell Brooks making the top ten. ESPN has Canelo at ten, under guys like Timothy Bradley JR. and even Cotto.

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Golovkin vs. Mayweather: A Boxing “Match-up” Made From Hell

1-009_Floyd_MayweatherBy J Caldwell: Is it just me, or does anyone else with half a boxing brain see a possible match-up between Gennady Golovkin (or, “GGG”), the current IBF, WBA and WBO middleweight titleholder and the now “somewhat” retired Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. (with too many accolades to name) as a complete waste of time?

Other than the fact the two fighters have “0s” to their name, the actual fight itself wouldn’t be an intriguing matchup. Perhaps the buildup to the fight should be “Someone’s 0 has to go”…been there done that! Better yet, the buildup, at least from a boxing realist point of reference, could be this: “Hello my name is ‘GGG’ and I could use a nice payday.”

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Golovkin’s trainer: Canelo would have a responsibility to defend WBC title if he wins it

sanchezBy Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) will have a responsibility to defend the WBC middleweight title against Golovkin, the WBC #1 mandatory challenger, if Canelo defeats the current WBC 160lb champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) in their catch-weight fight at 155lbs this month on November 21st.

There’s been talk that the winner of the Cotto-Canelo fight will ignore the World Boxing Council’s mandate that they fight Golovkin next, and instead will vacate the title so that they can continue to fight whoever they want to fight, which could very well be each other in a series of rematches until the boxing public tires of paying to see them fight each other on HBO PPV.

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Crawford not sure if Golovkin is for real

Boxing: Golovkin vs LemieuxBy Tim Fletcher: WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford says he doesn’t know if IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) is the real deal or not at this point, because he’s not been fighting guys that are hitting him back and trying to win.

Crawford notes that Golovkin has punching power, and he thinks he’s got good boxing skills. However, Crawford doesn’t know if he’s a legitimate talent or not because he’s been fighting too many guys that he was able to steamroll over without any problems.

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Mayweather: Golovkin needs to fight Andre Ward

wardBy Chris Williams: Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) points out that what made him a great fighter during his career was his willingness to take risks by moving up in weight to face dangerous opposition after starting his career out as a featherweight.

Mayweather could have stayed at that weight and played it safe his entire career, but he moved up four divisions in winning world titles at lightweight, light welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight.

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Mayweather must fight Golovkin if he wants to be TBE

Boxing: Golovkin vs LemieuxBy Allan Fox: We recently heard Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently say that he would have fought Gennady Golovkin if he could make 160lbs. It would sound like a reasonable excuse for Mayweather if the fact that Golovkin is smaller than Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a fighter that Mayweather was more than willing to fight in 2013.

Canelo is bigger than Golovkin, and will always be bigger than him even though Golovkin is willing to fight in a higher weigh class at middleweight against guys that outweigh him. You can make an argument that Golovkin is really little more than a junior middleweight who chooses to fight in the middleweight division against heavier fighters than himself.

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GGG Possibly Lining Up for a Title Defense in Texas

1-GolovkinLemieux_Hoganphotos1By Raj Parmar: Undefeated middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin made an appearance last night at the NFL Sunday Night in America matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles. Golovkin was personally invited by the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who even went as far as to create a Dallas Cowboys jersey with the “GGG’ written on the back on it. A photo of Golovkin posing with the jersey alongside Jones can be seen on Golovkin’s twitter page here.

Mr. Jones has long showed an interest in staging big boxing matchups in his state of the art stadium that can hold up to 80,000 fans. Welterweight superstar Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao fought at the stadium in Texas a couple of times during his prime years and the venue was discussed as a possible destination for the highly anticipated Miguel Cotto-Canelo Alvarez title fight on November 21 before losing the bid to the Las Vegas based Mandalay Bay hotel.

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Mayweather: I would have fought Golovkin if I could make 160

Boxing: Golovkin vs LemieuxBy Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. says that he would have gladly fought IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin during his career if he could make 160 for a fight between them, but that never happened.

Mayweather started his career out at super featherweight and moved up all the way to junior middleweight, but he wasn’t willing to fight at middleweight. Mayweather says he doesn’t see anything spectacular in Golovkin when he watches him fight.

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