By Al Classico: It’s no secret in the boxing world that there is a public feud going on between the sports ‘retired’ pay-per-view king Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jnr and one of the sports top stars in Adrien ‘About Billions’ Broner. Whether this is a legitimate disagreement or a staged publicity campaign to generate interest in a potential fight between the two remains to be seen.
What is as clear as day is that ‘Money’ Mayweather is a numbers man and Adrien Broner certainly delivered those numbers in his latest fight against Ashley Theophane last Friday night. The Broner- Theophane headline fight reportedly generated an average of 1.013 Million viewers indicating that Broner’s star still shines bright when it comes to drawing big crowds, even after suffering 2 high-profile losses in recent years.
By Al Classico: The proposed mega fight earmarked for September 2016 between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KO’s) and Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (34-0, 31) took a step backwards last week when it was announced that Canelo would opt to defend his ‘middleweight title’ against a welterweight fighter in Amir ‘King’ Khan. 
(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Al Classico: Following on from my previous article on rating the potential opponents at middleweight who are capable of testing and perhaps even defeating Golovkin, we now take a look at a man who by many is seen as an undefeated fighter and also someone who has vocally expressed their interest in fighting GGG at the full 160 middleweight limit. 
By Al Classico: Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29KOs), aka ‘The Miracle Man’ has really cemented himself as one of the legitimate middleweight challengers to Golovkin with his emphatic 1 round stoppage of fellow top middleweight Peter Quillin in December 2015. It’s hard to gauge whether that KO was the result of Jacob’s skill level or due to a lapse of concentration and a slow start from Peter Quillin but it was likely a culmination of both. 
By Al Classico: Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KO’s), The undefeated WBO champion threw a real spanner into the works when he defeated Andy Lee in late 2015 and derailed a potential, higher profile Lee- Golovkin showdown this year. With the defeat of Lee and the acquisition of a ‘world champion’ belt, his name was immediately thrust into the conversation as a next up Golovkin opponent. 
(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Al Classico: A few weeks into 2016 and the talk is heating up about a potential clash between Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez taking place sometime towards the end of the year, most likely around September or so. Hopefully the public demand for this fight will ensure that it happens sooner rather than later and we get to see this mega fight within the year, rather than within the next 5 years as was the case with the Floyd Mayweather Jr. – Manny Pacquiao showdown.
By Al Classico: 2015 was a very big and eventful year in boxing which saw the biggest financial fight finally come to fruition as well loads of great match ups and many strong fight of the year candidates taking place. 
By Al Classico: Yesterday we witnessed the highly anticipated battle for middleweight supremacy between Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (34-0, 31KO’s) and David Lemieux (34-3, 31 KO’s). The result went exactly as expected with Golovkin completely dominating Lemieux with his jab and control of range. Even though Lemiuex was a heavy underdog in this fight, the nature of the sport always gives the underdog the chance to be one punch away from scoring a KO win. Unfortunately for Lemieux, his chance never came.