By Dan Ambrose: WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin (29-0, 21 KO’s) says he and IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (27-0, 24 KO’s) will wind up on pay per view with them fighting it out in a unification bout.
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler is interested in the Golovkin-Quillin fight and he sees it taking place on HBO if Quillin accepts the fight.
Quillin said on his twitter “Me and @GGGboxing [Golovkin] will be a PPV headliner. Trust and believe coming for that other belt until I get em all.”
I think Quillin is dreaming if he thinks a fight against Golovkin would be a PPV bout. As good as the fight is on paper, I don’t think fans would pay to see two guys without a huge fan base. The fight would bring in decent ratings on HBO, but you can’t sell Golovkin-Quillin. It would have to be on regular HBO.
Loeffer said at the post-fight press conference last night after Golovkin’s 3rd round knockout of Matthew Macklin: “Gennady fights exclusively on HBO. I think a Quillin fight can be made. If that fight gets made it would be on HBO.”
Now the only question is will Quillin take the fight. He’s said in the past that Golovkin didn’t have the name for him to bother fighting him, yet at the same time Quillin is fighting guys like Fernando Guerrero in his last fight, and he’s a far lesser name than Golovkin. It is good that Quillin is suddenly showing interest in facing Golovkin, but whether he takes the fight is another question altogether. Quillin has a good thing going for him facing the weak opposition the World Boxing Organization has ranked in their top 15. He doesn’t need to mess things up by fighting Golovkin and getting knocked out.
It would seem that the wiser thing for Quillin to do would be to accept the fight with Golovkin because it would give him a chance to try and win another belt, and show that he can beat the perceived best fighter in the middleweight division.
Based on how wide open Quillin is on defense, I think he’d last about as long as Macklin did last night. Quillin is one of those middleweights that has good power, but easy to hit and he doesn’t look like a solid fighter, especially on the inside.
Quillin has zero inside fighting skills and he’d be at huge disadvantage once Golovkin got in close and started ripping shots to the body. Quillin’s trainer Freddie Roach has tried to work on Quillin’s inside game, but he’s still lost when his opponents get close to him.
I think Quillin would be an easier fight for Golovkin than the Macklin fight because Macklin at least had some skills on the inside. Quillin has zero. He’s strictly an outside fighter that throws looping shots, and easy to hit. Quillin tends to take turns throwing punches and then covering up when his opponents throw shots. He can’t counter puncher and he’d like a punching bag for Golovkin, and it would be over quickly.
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