By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya is saying that Gennady Golovkin could cause the Saul Canelo Alvarez fight to be put in jeopardy if he fights Billy Joe Saunders on June 10. The thought behind what De La Hoya is saying is that Golovkin could suffer an injury in the fight with Saunders, and that cut cause the September fight with Canelo to be canceled. De La Hoya is also concerned with limited about of time to promote the Canelo-Golovkin fight if Golovkin faces Saunders on June 10.
By Allan Fox: Gennady Golovkin has the next 10 days to decide whether he’s going to agree to the unification fight against WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders. The promoter for the unbeaten Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs), Frank Warren, is saying that they won’t wait around forever for Triple G to make up his mind whether he’ll agree to the fight with his fighter for June. Warren says they’ll move on if he doesn’t make agree to the fight. The contract is there for Golovkin to sign if he wants the fight.
By Dan Ambrose: Former Golden Boy Promotions boss Richard Schaefer agrees with Oscar De La Hoya that the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin fight needs at least 3 months preferably 5 months to promote properly so that it can maximize revenue. Like De La Hoya, Schaefer isn’t in favor of Golovkin taking a unification fight against WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders in June.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs) is giving IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) until Friday to sign for a unification fight with otherwise he’s going to tell his promoter to go in another direction and move on. Saunders, 27, says that he’s not heard from Golovkin, and he wants to get the fight done.
By Dan Ambrose: Middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says that they plan on moving up to super middleweight after one 1 or 2 more fights. Sanchez says Golovkin will fight in June, hopefully against Billy Joe Saunders or Tureano Johnson. After that fight, Sanchez says they’ll see if they can get the fight against the “Redhead,” Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, and if they can’t get that fight, then they’ll be moving up to 168 to begin campaigning in that weight class.
By Eric Baldwin: Adam Booth, the trainer for WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders, says that he feels that Gennady Golovkin did enough to earn his 12 round decision victory over Daniel Jacobs last Saturday night. While Booth did see the fight as a close affair, he felt that Golovkin’s jabs and the knockdown in round 4 that he scored were the difference in the fight. He says that Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) won more rounds overall than Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs).
By Jeff Aranow: IBO super middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. (24-1, 19 KOs) is interested in facing Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) following his win over Daniel Jacobs last Saturday night. Eubank Jr. wants Golovkin to come over to the UK and face him in his home country Eubank Jr. said that he almost fell asleep in watching Golovkin’s close fight against Jacobs.
By Justin Graham: Gennady “GGG” Golovkin has gone from being a relatively unknown former Olympic silver medalist from Kazakhstan in 2012 to one of boxing’s biggest stars and top pound-for-pound fighters in just a few years. However, for Golovkin, like most foreign fighters that come to America, there will always be the group of fans, mostly casual boxing fans, who will seemingly never give him his due credit for anything. A lot of those fans’ are now saying that Daniel Jacobs beat Golovkin and that he should get an immediate rematch. No, GGG does not have to face Danny Jacobs again.
By Dan Ambrose: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs) says he’s ready to fight IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) in Kazakhstan on June 10, because he thinks the soon to be 35-year-old Triple G has gotten old enough to be beaten now. Saunders says he told the boxing fans a little over a year ago that he wanted to wait 18 months to 2 years before facing Golovkin. That time has now gone by and Saunders is ready to fight Golovkin and beat him in his own country of Kazakhstan.
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy President Eric Gomez is reportedly concerned with the rumors of IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin facing WBO 160 pound champion Billy Joe Saunders on June 10, because it could get in the way of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez facing Triple G in September.
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler shutdown the Saunders-Golovkin rumors this week by saying that they have no plans on fighting him on June 10. A fight between Golovkin and Saunders would very likely be a short one with the fight ending in 6 rounds or less.