By Allan Fox: WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (25-0, 22 KO’s) says you can add his name to the list of fighters that wouldn’t mind facing unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the near future if Mayweather were to be willing to meet him at 155 lbs.
Golovkin fights at 160 lbs, so he couldn’t come down to 147 lbs. to fight Mayweather because that would be too much weight for Golovkin to take off. However, he is willing to meet Mayweather halfway at 155 if he’s open to taking the fight.
Golovkin said to RingTV “Of course, that would be my dream to fight Mayweather.”
That would be a great fight if Mayweather were to accept a bout with Golovkin. Mayweather would have to be willing to fight Golovkin at a catchweight of 155 lbs if he wanted Golovkin’s World Boxing Association title to be on the line because 154 would make the fight a junior middleweight bout instead of middleweight.
Mayweather would have a good chance to outbox Golovkin if he could handle his big power shots, and hard jabs. Golovkin is a definite step up from Miguel Cotto in the power and skills department, so Mayweather would have to be prepared to be hit a lot harder than he did against Cotto.
Golovkin will be defending his title this month against 37-year-old Nobuhiro Ishida (24-8-2, 9 KO’s) on March 30th at the Salle des etoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco. This is a stay busy fight for Golovkin until one of the bigger names in the division gets an open schedule and agrees to fight him.
Golovkin hasn’t had a lot of takers for a fight with him, and it might require for him to look vulnerable against Ishida in order to get the top fighters Sergio Martinez, Daniel Geale, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Peter Quillin to fight him.
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