Lemieux: Golovkin’s trainer is immature for predicting 4th round KO win for GGG

By Boxing News - 08/22/2015 - Comments

1-GolovkinLemieuxLAPC_Hoganphotos3By Dan Ambrose: IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) got worked up this week after learning from the media that Abel Sanchez, the trainer for IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), is predicting an easy 4th round knockout victory for Golovkin over Lemieux in their fight on October 17th at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Lemieux thinks it’s very immature of Sanchez to be making such a bold prediction because he feels that he’s a very good opponent and not the type that Sanchez should be making a prediction like that about. But Lemieux has been pretty bold himself in saying that he absolutely believes in his mind that he’s going to beat Golovkin.

Lemieux says he doesn’t think he’s going to beat Golovkin on October 17th on HBO pay-per-view, he knows he’s going to beat him.

“It’s very immature on his [Sanchez] behalf because Gennady is going in with a serious guy, and it’s not the fighter saying it; it’s the coach and it’s very immature and he’s going to eat his words in the fight,” Lemieux said via RingTV.

I don’t really see much of a difference from Sanchez predicting a victory for Golovkin, and Lemieux saying he’s going to win. The only difference I can see is Sanchez is picking out how Golovkin is going to win, as well as what round he’s going to do it in.

You can’t blame Sanchez for being bold and making a prediction about this fight because he’s been with Golovkin for the past five years as his trainer. Sanchez has seen what Golovkin can do in the ring and in his training camp against top fighters, many of which are bigger than Lemieux.

Sanchez likely wouldn’t be making a prediction of this kind of he didn’t know what Golovkin is capable of doing inside the ring. In the past, Sanchez has been pretty much correct when he’s made predictions about what Golovkin will be doing.

Sanchez hasn’t been wrong when he’s predicted in the past that Golovkin would KO guys like Willie Monroe Jr., Martin Murray, Matthew Macklin, Curtis Stevens, Gabriel Rosado and Daniel Geale. Golovkin has always been able to come through on his end to score the knockout.

Lemieux will need to be very special in the ring if he wants to become one of the few who have made it the full distance against Golovkin. Lemieux will have to be even more special to become the first fighter to ever defeat Golovkin. That would be very impressive if he were able to that because no one has come close to defeating Golovkin as of yet.

Lemieux has the punching power to get a win over him, but I’m still not so certain that he’s going to be able to land enough of his big punches to take him out. If Golovkin couldn’t score a knockout over guys like Marco Antonio Rubio, Joachim Alcine and Hassan N’Dam, then it’s difficult to imagine that he’ll be able to KO a fighter like Golovkin.

That means that Lemieux will have to try and beat Golovkin by a 12 round decision and take his big power shots for 12 long rounds. I don’t know that Lemieux can hang in there for 12 rounds against a hard puncher like Golovkin without getting knocked out.

Golovkin will very likely bust Lemieux up with his big punches if the fight goes past the 6th round. Even if Lemieux is still standing by then, you’ve got to suspect that he’ll be bleeding from one or both of his eyes.

Lemieux isn’t hard to hit at all, and doesn’t usually miss very much with his punches especially when he’s facing an eager slugger. Curtis Stevens and Rosado wanted to punch with Golovkin, and they both wound up getting hurt and stopped. Stevens was stopped from an accumulation of blows, and Rosado simply was too cut up to continue.

I don’t agree that Sanchez was being immature for believing that Golovkin will score an easy knockout in this fight. I believe that he will score a fast knockout because he’s not going to want to take it easy on Lemieux like he’s done with his opponents in the past. Lemieux punches too hard for Golovkin to let him stick around for any length of time. That’s why I think Golovkin will look to get Lemieux out of there by at least the 4th round if not sooner.



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