Gennady Golovkin boxing news
By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: Boxing experts, analysts, fans especially, and the industry as a whole have standard that they hold a popular fighter to. Pay per view (ppv) is the day and age we live in now so. It’s not going anywhere any time soon so stop crying about.
We have our own measurements about what a failure and success, but are they realistic? For example, the first Floyd Mayweather/Marcos Maidana did 900,000 buys and sold 15.4 at the gate. It had a pretty good undercard as well.
By Allan Fox: Former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) reiterated that he’s still not a real middleweight, and that a fight a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) can happen at some point in the future when he feels he’s ready to fight 160lb fighters.
Canelo’s fight against WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) on November 21st will likely be a one off thing for Canelo rather than him sticking it out in the middleweight class if he beats Cotto. Canelo doesn’t appear to be ready to hold onto the WBC title and defend it against Golovkin.
By Dan Ambrose: If former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) needs a catch-weight handicap in order to face IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs), then it’s not going to happen, according to his trainer Abel Sanchez.
Sanchez says that Canelo will need to vacate the WBC middleweight title, if he defeats the current WBC 160lb champ Miguel Cotto, and then tries to force Golovkin to fight him at a catch-weight in his mandatory title defense of the belt. Golovkin is currently the #1 WBC middleweight mandatory challenger for the title, and he’s next up for a shot at the WBC belt.
By Dan Ambrose: In a sign that WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford (27-0, 19 KOs) might not be a good option for Manny Pacquiao’s April 9th fight, Crawford’s fight last Saturday against #6 WBO Dierry Jean (29-2, 20 KOs) averaged only 1.071 million with a peak of 1.2 million on HBO Championship Boxing, according to Dan Rafael.
The Crawford vs. Jean fight did only slightly better than the replay of the Gennady Golovkin vs. David Lemieux fight on HBO, which brought in an average of 797,000 viewers with a peak of 1 million. The co-feature replay of Roman Gonzalez vs. Brian Viloria averaged 505,000 with a peak of 685,000.
By Scott Gilfoid: WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee (34-2-1, 24 KOs) faces #1 WBO mandatory challenge Billy Joe Saunders (22-0, 12 KOs) on December 19th at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. Lee, 31, looked horrible in his last fight against Peter Quillin last April in getting dropped twice and then having to settle for a 12 round draw in this non-title fight. Quillin failed to make weight for the fight, so Lee’s WBO title wasn’t on the line.
Lee’s career has been an up and down affair with him doing well for stretches at a time, but he’s also failed big time in knockout losses to journeyman Brian Vera and former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) sure did look sensational this month in taking apart IBF 160lb champion David Lemieux (34-3, 31 KOs) in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision on October 17th on HBO pay-per-view, but I guess he wasn’t good enough for Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn.
Hearn promotes #1 WBA contender Chris Eubank Jr. (20-1, 15 KOs), and believes that Golovkin is flawed and has weaknesses that his fighter can take advantage of when he faces him eventually in one or two more years.
By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says former IBF/WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) called him recently to ask him questions about the talented IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs).
Hearn didn’t say why Froch was asking him questions about Golovkin, but he thinks that he still secretly wants to keep fighting, which could be why he’s asking him specifically about the hard hitting Kazakhstan fighter.
By Bob Smith: Though the upcoming bout between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will be a good one, I think Cotto has the edge, mainly due to an excellent article here by one of my favorite authors.
http://www.boxingnews24.com/2015/06/cotto-vs-canelo-the-best-fight-in-boxing/
The article enumerates the advantages of Cotto, which are pretty much everything other than youth and power.
By Scott Gilfoid: Fresh off his 2nd round TKO victory over the 39-year-old Tony Jeter (20-5-1, 14 KOs) last night at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, UK, the cocky WBA interim middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. (20-1, 15 KOs) is once again giving IBF/IBO/WBA 160lb champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) some of his lip by saying that he’s totally untested and that he feels he’s the guy to finally give the Kazakhstan fighter a test.
Like always, Eubank Jr. doesn’t explain why he’s not hammering his promoter Eddie Hearn night and day to pressure him to make the fight with Golovkin. I mean, Golokvin has some time to kill right now after his easy 8th round knockout win over IBF 160lb champion David Lemieux earlier this month on October 17th on HBO PPV from Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York.
By Rick Jones III: The last 20 years boxing has been held by it’s throat by Floyd Mayweather Jr. The boxer that considers himself “The Greatest Of All Time,” had a real tight grip on the sport of boxing. The boxer then retired as of Sep 12th of 2015, which I have marked on my calendar the day boxing was reborn and possibly the best thing that has happen for the professional sport.
The pay-per-view numbers finally came out for the Gennady Golovkin – David Lemieux fight, which hit a little bit over 150,000 buys on HBO last Saturday night. So does that mean that the famous Triple G is not worthy of the throne Mayweather Jr. left behind? No…HELL NO! What this means is that the sport of boxing is actually level and balanced.