Golovkin-Wade 30-day weigh-in results

By Boxing News - 03/25/2016 - Comments

golovkin2By Jim Dower: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) and challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) were both on target with their weights at the 30-day weigh-in this week for their fight on April 23 at the Forum in Inglewood, California.

Golovkin weighed in at an unbelievable 164lbs for the 30-day weigh-in. Wade, 25, came in much heavier at 175.6.bs. The World Boxing Council mandates that their fighters weigh-in 30 days prior to their fights in order to make sure their weight is within target range to make weight. Both Wade and Golovkin made weight.

WBC flyweight world champion Roman Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KOs), who will be fighting in the co-feature bout on the Golovkin-Wade card on April 23, weighed in at 122.8lbs for his title defense against #10 WBC McWilliams Arroyo (16-2, 14 KOs). For his part, Arroyo weighed in at 120.2lbs.

The Golovkin vs. Wade card will be televised on HBO Championship Boxing on April 23.

Golovkin, 34, is expected to take the 25-year-old Wade apart without any problems in this fight. This is not supposed to be a competitive fight in any way. Wade is unbeaten, but he also hasn’t faced anyone of real talent or quality during his career other than 42-year-old Sam Soliman, who Wade beat by a very controversial 10 round split decision last summer.

The other fighters that Wade has fought have been weaker opposition and not ranked fighters. The fans only have that one fight against Soliman to go on when judging how good Wade is, and he failed to pass that test with a winning grade.

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If you were to rank Wade’s fight against Soliman, you would have to give him an incomplete because the outcome was controversial, and Wade failed to prove that he was the better fighter than him. That’s not the ideal fight that you want to see from an inexperienced contender like Wade before he challenges someone as good as Golovkin.

Wade should have gone back and fought Soliman again to prove himself before fighting for a world title against Golovkin. That would have made the most sense.

Golovkin needs a win over Wade to put him in position for a world title shot against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez later this year. It doesn’t mean that the Canelo fight will come next though. It also doesn’t mean that Canelo will fight him. Canelo and his management are still talking about wanting to fight at a catch-weight of 155lbs against Golovkin.

Unless Golovkin caves in on his decision not to entertain the idea of a catch-weight in a fight for any kinds of world titles, then we’re probably not going to see Golovkin face Canelo this year. That doesn’t mean that the fight won’t happen at some point in the future one Canelo feels he doesn’t need to fight with a weight handicap. At some point, Canelo will feel comfortable fighting at 160. Whether that comes before Golovkin gets much older is the real question.

Canelo could in theory wait until Golovkin is in his last 30s before proclaiming himself ready to fight at the full weight for the middleweight division. By that time, Golovkin could be too old to beat Canelo, and he could also struggle with Canelo’s size if the popular Mexican fighter keeps getting bigger and bigger as he ages. He’s already in the mid-170s now. You have to expect that Canelo will keep getting heavier as he nears 30.



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