By Dan Ambrose: At the final stop of their three-city press tour today in Los Angeles, California, IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) sounded totally convinced that he’s going to beat IBO/WBA middleweight Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in their clash on October 17th at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Lemieux, 26, said he doesn’t just believe he’s going to beat Golovkin, he knows he’s going to beat him. Lemieux feels he’s going to defeat Triple G, because he knows what he’s capable of going after spending years inside and outside the ring. Lemieux sees something in Golovkin’s fighting style that makes him dead certain that he’s going to defeat the 33-year-old Kazakhstan fighter in their fight on HBO pay-per-view.

“I’m not in the fight because I believe I’m going to win or I hope I’m going to win,” Lemieux said earlier today at the Los Angeles press conference with Golovkin. “I’m in this fight because I know I’m going to win. Why? Because of the things I’ve learned over the years. I got to know my abilities. I’m here today because of my abilities…to be fighting the Goliath of the division, it’s pretty funny. I like Golovkin. He’s a respectful guy. He’s a good champion. In the ring nobody likes nobody. We’re two pit bulls unleashed, and we’re going for the neck. We’re going to give the world what they want to see without restraint. We’re two professionals and we know how to do it. On October 17th, you will see something great. Make sure you watch,” Lemieux said.

Lemieux certainly had the crowd in his favor when he hit the stage, but perhaps that was because his English was a little bit better than Golovkin’s and he was able to speak a little bit more on a number of things.

Golovkin said “I don’t know who’s going to win, but I promise you a good show.”

While Golovkin kept it modest, Lemieux was the one who was talking in definite terms about what he’s going to do when he gets inside the ring and whose going to win the fight.

Unfortunately for Lemieux, he doesn’t have the experience in the past to convince a lot of the boxing fans, writers and odds-makers that he has a good chance of winning against a the Goliath of the 160lb division. It’s one thing talking a good game, but quite another when you have to get inside the ring and prove it in real life. All we know with Lemieux is he failed in his biggest tests of his career four years ago when he was beaten by Marco Antonio Rubio and Joachim Alcine in back to back defeats. In Lemieux’s toughest fights since then, he beat Hassan N’Dam and Fernando Guerrero.

Those decent fighters, but hardly what you can call great ones. N’Dam has good boxing skills, but he was badly exposed by Peter Quillin several years ago when he was knocked down three times in losing a 12 round decision in 2012.

Lemieux did pretty much the same thing that Quillin did in knocking N’Dam down four times in the fight in winning a 12 round decision. Beating N’Dam isn’t the same thing as trying to beat a fighter with the chin, boxing skills, and punching power that Golovkin possesses. It’s going to be a lot tougher for Lemieux to try and accomplish that. He might not be able to do it.

The winner of the Golovkin-Lemieux fight is going to make a fortune in their next fight against the winner of the Saul “Canelo”Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto. Even the loser of the Golovkin-Lemieux fight is going to have opportunities for big fights. Those two fighters are going to be in demand no matter what happens in their fight.