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Canelo: I’ll move to 160 when my body tells me

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By Dan Ambrose: Former two-division world champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) says he’s not sure when he’ll be making his move up in weight to the middleweight division. He says he’ll wait until his body tells him to make the move. What this means is that Canelo could opt to stay at 154 longer than people thought he would.

Canelo surprised boxing fans recently when he chose to move off his self-created 155lb division to sign for a title fight against WBO junior middleweight champion Liam Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) for a fight on September 17 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

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Kell Brook with little chance against Golovkin

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By Shaun La: I will be watching the Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32 Knockouts) vs. Kell Brook (36-0, 25 Knockouts) bout come this September 10th, 2016, because I am a complete boxing fan. However, I completely disagree with this bout. Why? It is because Kell is moving up into a Middleweight division and even though he is one of the best welterweights in his own division, as well as the IBF champion—-fighting at a new weight for the first time could have all kinds of learning curves to it.

Confidently, I can state that I do not know enough about Kell’s boxing skills to fully elaborate on his boxing I.Q. It is not that Gennady cannot be figured out.

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Stevens: Eubank Jr. was scared of GGG

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former world title challenger Curtis Stevens (28-5, 21 KOs) is reportedly open to a fight against #2 WBA, #2 WBC Chris Eubank Jr. (23-1, 18 KOs) if he’s game. Stevens wasn’t too impressed with the way that Eubank Jr. talked up a fight against middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin recently but then failed to take the fight. Stevens, 31, thinks Eubank Jr. was scared to take the fight with Golovkin. After wasting his time and Golovkin’s time, Eubank Jr. failed to sign the contract to make the fight happen.

Stevens is impressed with Brook, because he sees him as a slick fighter with a lot of talent.
“Kell Brook is an excellent fighter,” said Stevens to skysports.com. “Gennady, Eubank Jr was scared to fight him, no one wants to fight him, so they made that fight happen.”

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Canelo: I’ll eventually fight Golovkin

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By Allan Fox: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) has taken some fierce criticism for failing to take on IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Canelo said today that he will be taking on Golovkin eventually. He doesn’t say when the fight will happen. The only thing that Canelo is saying is that the fight will eventually happen in time.

“We’re focused on my career and taking the next step and moving forward and eventually that fight’s going to happen (with Golovkin). It’s going to happen. It will happen,” said Canelo to Ringtv.com.

This is exactly what Canelo’s promoter Oscar De La Hoya has been saying about the Canelo vs. Golovkin fight. De La Hoya has been saying this for more than a year now. It’s become forlorn with De La Hoya repeating the same thing over and over again. Now we’ve got Canelo parroting the same line.

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Provodnikov talks Crawford-Postol & Golovkin-Brook

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By Chris Williams: Former WBO light welterweight champion Ruslan Provodnikov thinks WBC 140lb champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) has a real chance of beating the favorite WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs) in their fight this Saturday night on HBO pay-per-view at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Provodnikov thinks the oddsmakers don’t know what they’re doing in picking Crawford over Postol, because they’ve never put on a pair of gloves before and they don’t know what Postol is capable of doing.

“This is just a statistic. These people never wear the gloves and never get inside the ring, Anything can happen,” said Provodnikov to IFL TV about the oddsmakers making Crawford the favorite over Postol.

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Canelo talks Golovkin vs. Brook fight

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By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) finally broke his silence about the upcoming fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) and welterweight Kell “Special K” Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on September 10.

Canelo points out that in his fight against welterweight Amir Khan, he only made him come up in weight one division to fight him at a catch-weight of 155 pounds. Canelo says that Brook has to move up two divisions to fight Triple G at 160lbs. Canelo sees that as potentially harder for Brook than what he was asking Khan to do against him. Canelo further states that he’ll beat Golovkin when they face each other next year in the fall.

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Hunter: Golovkin can’t afford to have a close fight

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By Allan Fox: Trainer Virgil Hunter sees IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) dealing with a lot of pressure in his next fight against welterweight Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs). Hunter sees Golovkin as having spoiled the fight fans with him scoring so many knockouts.

It’s to the point now where if one of his fights go the distance or if he wins by a close decision, he’ll be scrutinized by the boxing fans in the same way that IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev is now being scrutinized after his tougher than expected 12 round decision win over Isaac Chilemba.

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Lennox Lewis doubts Brook can beat Golovkin

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By Dan Ambrose: Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis doubts that welterweight Kell Brook can make the jump to middleweight to beat Gennady GGG Golovkin on September 10. Lewis believes that the weight classes were designed for a reason, and he thinks there’s not too many fighters that can move up two divisions at a time and find success.

Lewis says he think Chris Eubank Jr. would have beaten Triple G if he’d fought him. The problem is, Eubank Jr. and/or his father Chris Eubank Sr. failed to agree to a fight against Golovkin when it was offered to them. They didn’t meet the deadline that was set by them from Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn. He offered the same deal to Brook, and he agreed to it.

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Golovkin’s trainer concerned with Brook’s clinching

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says he’s very concerned about a number of things going into GGG’s fight against welterweight Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London, England.

While there are things like the judges being influenced by the pro-Brook crowd that has Sanchez’s attention, what he appears to be more concerned with is Brook’s habit of clinching his opponents and moving around the ring.

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Roach: Kell Brook is desperate for a payday

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By Scott Gilfoid: Trainer Freddie Roach believes the only reason that IBF welterweight champion Kell “Special K” Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) is moving up in weight two divisions to take on unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) in their fight on September 10 is because he’s desperate for a payday and willing to take the risk because of that.

Roach notes that Brook has never been able to get a fight against Britain’s Amir Khan, and that other fighters from his division have avoided him pretty much. So instead of sticking it out at 147 in taking the guys that are willing to fight him, Brook decided to take a major risk in moving up thirteen pounds to face Golovkin at 160lbs without the benefit of a catch-weight.

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