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GGG is a flawed champion

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By Angel Flowers: Boxing fans already have shown that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin is only a draw on free TV and does not have a pay per view presence. This is because Golovkin has failed to challenge himself and take on the tough fights. Months after criticizing his supposed rival Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for fighting a welterweight in Amir Khan, GGG himself went after Kell Brook, another welterweight.

This is not the first time Golovkin has wanted to fight a welterweight; before he retired he expressed interest in fighting Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. instead of guys closer to his weight. When Golovkin offered to fight Mayweather at 154 pounds, boxers at junior middleweight offered to take him on, most notably Erislandy Lara, the WBA junior middleweight champion.

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Brook undergoes surgery to repair broken eye socket

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By Adam Godfrey: IBF Welterweight champion Kell Brook underwent surgery last week to reverse the damage caused to his right eye socket during his TKO loss to Middleweight Champion Gennady Golovkin on September 10th. Surgery was presumably delayed for two weeks to ensure the swelling had abated sufficiently for the surgeon to carry out the operation, which, according to Brook’s trainer Dominic Ingle, involved told The Star:

“…The surgeon-who was called Mohammed Ali, believe it or not- going up through his gums, his front teeth, moving an eye to one side and then sorting out the fracture”.

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Arum: Oscar should stop hiding Canelo from Golovkin

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By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum thinks Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy should STOP hiding his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez from middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Arum says De La Hoya should go ahead and make the fight on a percentage deal and not on an offer of eight figures like the one that De La Hoya offered Triple G’s management.

Arum thinks it’s nonsense for De Hoya to be offering Golovkin an eight-figure payday, because he says that’s not how big fights can made. You don’t offer popular fighters a lump sum and think you’re going to get the fight put together.

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Golovkin’s trainer talks $10M offer for Canelo fight

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By Patrick McHugh: Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez compares the lowball $10 million offer from Golden Boy Promotions to Golovkin for a fight against Saul Canelo Alvarez to a $40 million offer Floyd Mayweather Jr. made to Manny Pacquiao in the past for a mega-fight between them. Pacquiao wisely turned down the $40 million from Mayweather.

Later on the two stars fought each other in May 2015, and Pacquiao walked away with $200 million for the fight, says Sanchez. Had Pacquiao agreed to the $40 million that Mayweather initially offered him for the fight, then he would have lost out on a huge amount of money.

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Golovkin had NO respect for Kell Brook

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By Scott Gilfoid: According to trainer Abel Sanchez, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin had no respect at all for Kell Brook in their fight on September 10 of this month, and that’s why Golovkin was sloppy in the fight. Sanchez says Golovkin could have made it a very technical fight and boxed the 30-year-old Brook if he wanted to, but he had no reason to, being that Brook had no power and couldn’t hurt him.

Golovkin ended up breaking Brook apart in the 5th round causing his trainer Dominic Ingle to throw in the towel to save him from getting badly hurt. Brook’s right eye socket was broken by the power of Golovkin’s left hook in the 2nd round. Brook would later say that he could have been blinded in his right eye if he had stayed in the fight and continued to take blows to the head.

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Trout: Is Canelo waiting for Golovkin to get old?

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By Patrick McHugh: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout (30-3, 17 KOs) wonders if Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) is ever going to fight IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) or not. Trout, 31, notes that Canelo is saying that he’ll fight Golovkin in September of next year rather than right now.

Trout sees that as a sign that Canelo could be looking to wait until Golovkin is over-the-hill before he finally agrees to fight him.

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Malignaggi: Team Canelo waiting for Golovkin to age

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By Eric Baldwin: Paulie Malignaggi sees no point in talking about the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. Gennady “GGG” Golovkin fight for at least one to two years, as he feels that Golden Boy Promotions are not going to make the match until Triple G starts to age more. Right now, Golovkin is still fighting at too high a level for Golden Boy to make the fight. However, Malignaggi says that the 26-year-old Canelo has youth on his side, being that he can wait until Golovkin is sufficiently old before the fight gets made.

With Golovkin older and more vulnerable, then the fight can get made. Malignaggi sees the Golovkin vs. Danny Jacobs fight as a better fight, and a more realistic one than the Canelo-Golovkin fight right now.

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Gomez: I can prove Canelo is bigger draw than Golovkin

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By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez wants unbeaten middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and his promoter Tom Loeffler that they are the B-side in the equation for a fight against Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez if that fight takes place.

Gomez wants Golovkin and Loeffler to know that they don’t draw as well as Canelo, and because of that, he’s not on board with them getting a percentage split of the revenue for a mega-fight beaten the two middleweights.

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Canelo’s promoter wants Golovkin’s management to negotiate deal

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By Dan Ambrose: Eric Gomez of Golden Boy Promotions wants middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler to sit down with him to negotiate a deal for a fight against Golden Boy star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for September 2017. Gomez wants to get the Canelo-Golovkin fight negotiated right now for some reason. It’s not in Golovkin’s best interest to accept a lump sum deal. He’s about to fight Daniel Jacobs in December.

A victory over Jacobs will increase Golovkin’s negotiating power. If Golovkin defeats WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders in early 2017, he’ll have cleaned out the middleweight division by capturing the last title not in his possession and beaten the last threat to him. If Golovkin agrees to do a deal with Golden Boy now, he wouldn’t be in the same position as he’ll be later on down the road.

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Golovkin-Jacobs to take Canelo’s December 10 date on HBO

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By Dan Ambrose: With Saul Canelo Alvarez on the shelf for the remainder of 2016 with a fractured right thumb, unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin is moving in to take Canelo’s December 10 date on HBO with his fight against Daniel Jacobs. World Boxing Association president Gilberto Mendoza has ordered the Golovkin-Jacobs fight, and their management is negotiating the fight, which could take place at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Canelo, 26, fractured his right thumb in his fight against WBO junior middleweight champion Liam smith. The good news for Golovkin is that it opens up the December 10 date for him to fight Jacobs.

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