De La Hoya: Canelo will eventually fight Golovkin at the right time

de la hoya95By Dan Ambrose: If you were one of the many boxing fans who were counting on Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) in fighting IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) after they get through their next fights against WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) and IBF 160lb champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs), you might be disappointed to learn that Canelo’s promoter Oscar De La Hoya is saying that Canelo might not take the fight with Golovkin after the Cotto fight.

De La Hoya says that Canelo will eventually get around to fighting the Kazahstan star at some point. Just when that will happen is unknown at this point. Cotto and Canelo have a verbal agreement to face each other in a rematch, and neither of them has much of an incentive step forward and face a dangers puncher like Golovkin until they’ve exhausted the money they can make in facing each other.

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Andre Ward not in the picture for Golovkin, says Loeffler

ward44444By Dan Ambrose: IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler says that a fight between Golovkin and WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward isn’t in the picture in the near future.

The only reason there was talk of a Golovkin-Ward fight in the recent past was because the media keeps asking Golovkin and Ward questions about when/if they’ll be fighting each other, and they’ve answered the questions the best that they could. But as far as an actual fight goes between them, it’s not going to happen anytime soon if ever, says Loeffler.

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Golovkin’s promoter fires back at Danny Garcia’s father Angel

1-GolovkinLemieuxLAPC_HoganphotosBy Dan Ambrose: A month after former IBF/WBA 140lb champion Danny Garcia’s father/trainer Angel Garcia gave a weird interview in which he tore into IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), wondering why the American fans are supporting him because he hadn’t fought anyone good, Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions answered back with his thoughts on some of the things that Angel had been saying.

Loeffler said that Golovkin has always been matched against the best available fighters that were willing to get in the ring with him. He was always willing to fight the best, but getting the best to agree to fight him was impossible until IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux finally agreed to fight him on October 17th on HBO PPV.

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Sanchez sees Golovkin vs. Ward fight as a dead end for GGG

1-IMG_6174By Allan Fox: Trainer Abel Sanchez doesn’t see much point in his fighter IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in moving up to the super middleweight division to face WBA 168lb champion Andre Ward, because once Golokvin beats him, he would have zero options for big fights in that weight class.

There’s nobody else to fight at 168 now that Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler have both retired, and the move would put Golovkin further away from the guys that he wants to fight like Floyd Mayweather Jr. Once Golovkin moves up to 168 to face Ward, it would make it impossible for him to get fights against guys like Mayweather.

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Hopkins: Canelo will fight Golovkin-Lemieux winner

canelo06By Dan Ambrose: Speaking for former WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs), Bernard Hopkins says that Canelo will definitely fight the winner of the October 17th fight between IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) and IBF 160lb champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) in 2016.

Hopkins says the losers of the Golovkin-Lemieux and Cotto-Canelo fights should face each other. Whether that happens or not is unclear. Unfortunately, it’s not even a given that the winner of the two fights will face each other.

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Sanchez wants Golovkin vs. Mayweather in 2016

1-IMG_6214By Dan Ambrose: Abel Sanchez, the trainer for IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) is hoping that Golovkin can get a fight against unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) next year at 154. Sanchez says that Golovkin is willing to go down to junior middleweight to make the fight happen with Mayweather, and sees there being no reason why Mayweather can’t take the fight with Golovkin, because he says Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez are both the same size.

Mayweather fought Canelo in 2013, and beat him by a 12 round decision. Canelo is actually heavier than Golovkin in coming into his fights as heavy as 175lbs compared to Golovkin’s usual 170lbs.

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Golovkin says he’s scared of Lemieux

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By Allan Fox: IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) took boxing fans by surprise on Thursday when he confessed that he’s afraid of the 26-year-old IBF 160lb champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) ahead of their important pay-per-view fight on HBO on October 17th from Madison Square Garden in New York.

Golovkin seemed tongue tiled and flustered when speaking to the media during his 3rd and final day of his media tour in Los Angeles, California. This is pretty much the same thing we saw from the 33-year-old Golovkin in his other two media conferences with Lemieux in Montreal and New York.

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Golovkin, Lemieux, Gonzalez & Viloria promise to deliver action

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by Michael Montero – On Thursday fighters representing four different countries met in Los Angeles for the final stop of their media tour announcing one of the most anticipated cards of the year. On October 17th inside the famed Madison Square Garden in New York city, middleweight titlists Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and David Lemieux faceoff in a can’t miss action fight. The co-feature is a flyweight contest between Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Brian “Hawaiian Punch” Viloria, another can’t miss action affair. This one-two duo headlines an HBO PPV broadcast priced at $49.95, relatively cheap considering the cost of certain other PPV cards this year that seemed to be more about the “money” than the fans.

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Lemieux: I know I am going win

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By Dan Ambrose: At the final stop of their three-city press tour today in Los Angeles, California, IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) sounded totally convinced that he’s going to beat IBO/WBA middleweight Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in their clash on October 17th at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Lemieux, 26, said he doesn’t just believe he’s going to beat Golovkin, he knows he’s going to beat him. Lemieux feels he’s going to defeat Triple G, because he knows what he’s capable of going after spending years inside and outside the ring. Lemieux sees something in Golovkin’s fighting style that makes him dead certain that he’s going to defeat the 33-year-old Kazakhstan fighter in their fight on HBO pay-per-view.

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Sanchez: Lemieux doesn’t have the power that people think he does

lemieux33332By Jim Dower: Trainer Abel Sanchez doesn’t think that IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) is as tough or as good a puncher as a lot of boxing fans make him out to be. Sanchez thinks that KO artist Curtis Stevens is a better puncher than Lemieuix, and he thinks that it won’t be a problem for IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) to defeat the 26-year-old Lemieux in their fight on October 17th on HBO pay-per-view at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Golovkin defeated Stevens by an 8th round knockout last year in 2014 in a fight that was pretty much a one-sided fight from start to finish. Stevens landed some good shots early on and forced Golovkin to box with him rather than slug in the early going, but Golovkin slowly broke him down until forcing a stoppage.

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