Gennady Golovkin boxing news
By Listen: Gennady Golovkin has taken the boxing world by storm over the past couple years. Many fans and pundits alike rank GGG very high and often #1 in their pound for pound rankings. It isn’t hard to see what the hype is about.
Golovkin has accumulated 31 knockouts in 34 bouts, which equates to a knockout percentage of over 90. Comparatively Manny Pacquiao’s knockout percentage is only 84%, which of course is nothing to sneeze at, but lower than Golovkin’s higher percentage.
By Francisco Gurrola: The thought and imagination of a potential clash between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will come to closure soon. It is a matter of time before these two warriors face each other insde the ring. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar de la Hoya has chosen to let the fight marinate a little longer before it takes place in late 2016. The decision makes a lot of economical sense, as business people their job is to make the most money out of their fighters; this is how you do it.
Gennady Golovkin an excellent fighter with great skills and power has shocked the boxing world and has made his name known and spoken of by many followers and fans of boxing. “GGG” is an exciting fighter that moves very well inside the ring, he closes the gaps between him and his opponent and goes in for the kill.
(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he does not think IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) is a good fighter at all, and he feels that WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) will likely still beat him in their fight in 2016.
Floyd Sr. says that Golovkin has slow hand speed, and he was not impressed with how he looked in his fight against Willie Monroe Jr. earlier this year in May. Golovkin won the fight by a 6th round knockout, but Monroe had his moments in the fight in landing some nice shots in rounds 3 through 5.
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Freddie Roach is still complaining about his fighter Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) losing his fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) from last November in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto, 35, lost the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 118-110, 119-109 and 117-111.
Roach thinks that the Canelo vs. IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin unification fight should not take place next year until Cotto is given a rematch in order to clear up what Roach feels was the controversial scoring for the Cotto-Canelo fight.
By Scott Gilfoid: You’ve got to feel a little bad for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. Not only has he lost out on a title shot against WBC 160lb champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez after the WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said that Canelo can take a voluntary defense in the first quarter of next year, but Golovkin also lost out on an opportunity to fight a unification fight against WBO champion Andy Lee.
The Irish fighter lost his WBO title last weekend in a close and some would say controversial 12 round majority decision defeat to British fighter Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) in a fight that took place in England at the Manchester Arena. It looked to many casual observers that Lee had done enough to deserve a 12 round draw, but two of the judges gave Saunders the win.
(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: After one or two fights, one pay per view event, the media and boxing fans are ready to crown certain fighters “the next big thing”. In that same breathe, the same media that built a fighter up are the same ones that can tear a fighter down.
Some boxing fans have that microwave mentality. You know; they want the food to be done instantly. Other fans have the oven mentality. He is slow cooked, all the parts we can’t see are marinated slowly (defense, footwork, combos etc), and is baked at just the right temperature. And when the opportunity comes, the fighter is taking out the oven and is ready for the next step.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) says he prefers to wait 18 months before he considers facing IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin in a unification fight. Nevertheless, Saunders says he would face Golovkin right now in America if he gets 4 million pounds.
That is roughly $6 million in U.S. dollars. Saunders might as well be talking $20 million for the fight with Golovkin, because he has about as much chance of getting that much as he does $6 million. It’s just not going to happen.
By Scott Gilfoid: For boxing fans hoping to see Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KOs) defend his new WBO middleweight title against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in his first defense of his title in February or March of 2016, you can forget about it.
Saunders, 26, says he won’t be looking to fight Golovkin for another year and a half or so. This is the same thing Chris Eubank Jr. about Golovkin too. When you hear a fighter talking about not wanting to fight someone for 18 months, I see that as code for meaning that they never want to fight that person.
By Yannis Mihanos: In many of his past fights, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) appears to have had a weight advantage over his opponents. Often times, Canelo has looked like the bigger and stronger guy over his smaller opposition.
Canelo dishes punishment with his power punches and demoralizes fighters appearing unfazed from their attacks and punches. His last victim was WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, looked in front of him half the size of the 25-year-old Canelo.
By Dan Ambrose: It looks like there’s going to be some competition to face the winner of this Saturday’s fight between WBO 160lb champion Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders. WBA “regular” middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs said today that he wants the winner of the Lee-Saunders fight. But now Tom Loeffler, the promoter for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs), says they want the winner of the Lee-Saunders fight.
Golovkin has the option of making a defense of his IBF title against his #1 IBF mandatory Tureano Johnson or possibly facing the Lee vs. Saunders fight.