Gennady Golovkin boxing news
By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman says they’ll be extending the negotiations between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and mandatory WBC challenger Gennady Golovkin until December 11th.
Suliaman is using the Thanksgiving day holiday as an excuse for why the Canelo-Golovkin negotiations couldn’t be moved in a timely fashion. It’s a pretty flimsy excuse though because they should have known about the holiday already.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman will be holding a conference call with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions and Gennady Golovkin’s promoters at K2 Promotions on Friday to discuss a fight between Canelo and Golovkin. Sulaiman gave Canelo 15 days previously to start negotiations with Canelo otherwise he would strip him of his title, but he’s not playing it strict with him for some reason.
Sulaiman is talking about letting Canelo get in a voluntary defense of his WBC middleweight title next May, and then a possible fight between him and Golovkin taking place next year in September. Canelo would be fighting on both of the Mexican holidays in 2016.
By Scott Gilfoid: Carl Froch says he spoke with IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler recently about a potential catch-weight fight against Golovkin, and Loeffler didn’t want the fight to take place.
Froch says he got the impression from his conversation with Loeffler that the K2 promoter didn’t want his smaller 5’10 ½” fighter to come anywhere near him. Froch figures that his superior size compared to Golovkin put Loeffler off from the idea.
Froch says he can’t make 168lbs because it would be too hard on his body if he tries to melt down to that weight from where he’s at now since he retired from boxing last year.
By Tim Fletcher: It’s becoming increasingly clear that for interim WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) to get the fight that he wants against the current WBC 160lb champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-0-1, 32 KOs), he’s going to need to agree to the 155lb catch-weight that Canelo wants for the fight to happen.
Whether he likes or not, Golovkin needs to agree to the catch-weight if he really wants the fight against the young champion. I don’t think it’s asking a whole lot that Golovkin agree to give Canelo this small handicap.
By Dan Ambrose: Ever since Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) defeated Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) last month to win the WBC middleweight title, he’s been getting really torn apart by boxing fans on his Instagram.
The fans are very, very unhappy with Canelo talking about wanting to continue to fight at a catch-weight of 155lbs despite him holding onto the WBC middleweight title now. On almost every Instagram post by Canelo, the fans barbeque him about the catch-weight thing. They want Canelo to fight at the full weight of 160lbs against Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and in all of his other title defenses to come in the future.
By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: I have no problem with WBA/IBF/IBO champ Gennady Golovkin (Trip) goals of wanting to unify the division. He has faced opposition that has been willing to face him. There are several big names he could face like Peter Quillin, Daniel Jacobs, Saul Canelo Alvarez, and Andy Lee. There has been major criticism about who he has faced as of late. I agree.
If Golovkin is going to blow up to the status of super star, he’s going to need that marquee name on his resume. Even if he did journey to super middleweight at this time, there are no big names that will bring him to the big pay day limelight.
By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) has now officially been the WBC middleweight champion for 10 days, and he now has 5 more days to begin negotiations with his #1 WBC mandatory challenger Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) before the World Boxing Council is supposed to step in and strip the 25-year-old Canelo of his WBC 160lb title.
Thus far, there’s been no world from Canelo’s camp about whether or not they’re going to defend the WBC title against Golovkin. The only thing we’ve heard is Canelo’s trainer Eddy Reynoso saying that they don’t plan on moving off of the 155 pound catch-weight that they’ve been fighting at for the last two years.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA “regular” middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (30-1, 27 KOs) will be facing unbeaten former WBO 160lb champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-0-1, 23 KOs) in the battle of Brooklyn this Saturday night on Showtime Championship Boxing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
What will be interesting about the Jacobs-Quillin fight is if the winner of the contest will agree to fight undefeated IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) so that they can attempt to capture the real WBA title instead of having to hold the minor strap, which you can argue is little more than an interim belt rather than the real thing.
By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) says he spoke to Gennady Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler recently about what weight a fight between him and Golovkin could take place. Froch says that Loeffler told him that Golovkin couldn’t come up to either 168 of 172.
Golovkin and his management were previously interested in fighting Froch at 168. But if what Froch is saying is true about Golovkin no longer willing to move up to super middleweight for a fight against him, then it pretty much shuts off any chances of a fight between the two fighters ever taking place.
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Robert Garcia thinks it would be a mistake on WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) to face WBC interim champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) right now, because he definitely sees Golovkin beating Canelo if that fight takes place right now.
However, Garcia thinks that could change if the 25-year-old Canelo waits two years until Golovkin is 35-years-old before taking that fight. Garcia believes that Canelo will improve in the next couple of years with the experience he gets in the ring.