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Bradley would be easy work for Golovkin

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By Allan Fox: In what could be signs that WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 K0s) is interested in facing Tim Bradley (32-1-1, 12 KOs), Golovkin attended tonight’s Bradley vs. Jessie Vargas (26-1, 9 KOs) fight to watch the action at the live at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Golovkin likely wasn’t too worried about what he saw from Bradley, who was badly hurt in the 12th round by a right hand from the light hitting Vargas. Bradley was able to survive the 12th round when the referee Pat Russell made a huge blunder in stopping it early with 10 seconds to go in the round.

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Golovkin could face Tureano Johnson next

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golovkin8By Allan Fox: IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) finds himself in a really tough situation right now as far as his next opponent goes. He was waiting out the results of the David Lemieux vs. Hassan N’Dam fight last Saturday night in hopes of getting a unification fight against the winner.

However, now that Lemieux has won the fight his trainer Oscar De La Hoya is insisting that he’ll be defending his newly won IBF middleweight title against his mandatory next, even though the IBF reportedly told Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler that Lemieux can face Golovkin next rather than his mandatory. But De La Hoya appears to prefer Lemieux facing his mandatory rather than Golovkin.

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Tim Bradley can beat Golovkin, says Arum

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golovkin883By Allan Fox: If Top Rank promoter Bob Arum gets his way, we could be seeing welterweight Tim Bradley (31-1-1, 12 KOs) facing IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) this year in a pay-per-view bout in what Arum describes as a “super fight.”

It would of course be televised on HBO, and Arum believes the fight would be big enough to sell on PPV, as long as he stacked the undercard with a lot of interesting fights that the boxing public would be interested in seeing. Arum actually believes that Bradley could beat Golovkin if given the chance.

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Golovkin is too big for Mayweather, says Molina

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1-golovkin3 (14)By Dan Ambrose: A lot of boxing fans want to see WBA/WBC/WBO welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs) face unbeaten WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) in a battle of the unbeaten fighters at 154 on September 12th in what could be Mayweather’s final fight of his career.

One person who thinks it would be asking too much of Mayweather to take the fight is light welterweight John Molina. He believes that Golovkin would have too much of a size advantage over Mayweather for that fight to take place, even though Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a fighter that Mayweather already beat, is actually a bigger fighter in terms of weight than Golovkin.

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Round up of a month of boxing and potential match-ups to look forward too

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golovkinBy HK: Well it has been quite a successful and exciting month of boxing, especially from a British perspective. We now have four fully fledged British world champions, who all hold the IBF version of the title. James DeGale (Super-Middleweight), Kell Brook (Welterweight), Lee Selby (Featherweight) and Carl Frampton (Super Bantamweight).

Although these haven’t all come from within the space of one month it is nonetheless extremely encouraging to see British fighters consistently challenging at world level. This coupled with the various interim and regular titles held by British fighters and British boxing could not be in a better place right now.

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De La Hoya still insisting Lemieux take mandatory defense for next fight

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delahoya789By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya is still insisting that his fighter IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux has a mandatory defense that he needs to get out of the way first in his next fight despite Tom Loeffler, the promoter for WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), having made contact with the International Boxing Federation and being told that the Golovkin vs. Lemieux fight can go ahead next rather than Lemieux’s mandatory defense.

De La Hoya’s insistence that the Lemieux must fight his IBF mandatory next comes across like De La Hoya prefers that he take that fight rather than taking a risky fight against Golovkin that Lemieux could very well lose.

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Gennady “GGG” Golovkin nominated for Espy’s Fighter of the Year!!

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Los Angeles, CA (June 25, 2015) Boxing superstar GENNADY “GGG” GOLOVKIN has been nominated by the ESPY’s for the 2014 Fighter of the Year.

Fans can vote for Golovkin at ESPN.com/ESPYS.

Recognized as the world’s most dominant boxer, the middleweight world champion has compiled a record of 33-0 with 30 stoppages, a knockout percentage of 91% — the highest in middleweight division history. Golovkin has now recorded 20 straight knockouts.

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Froch not making a peep about Golovkin fight

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froch67By Scott Gilfoid: After talking about wanting to possibly face the challenge of fighting undefeated WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), Britain’s Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) has seemingly disappeared into the woodwork. Froch has not said a word lately about whether he’ll take the fight or not, and boxing fans are left to wonder what happened to him.

Froch said he was going to make his decision about whether to retire or not by the first week of June. Well, the first week of this month has come and gone and Froch is missing in action.

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IBF confirmed no issue with GGG vs. Lemieux next, says Loeffler

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golovkin445By Dan Ambrose: Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions is ruling out a fight between middleweight champions Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) for 2015, saying that the International Boxing Federation (IBF) says that Lemieux has a mandatory defense due.

Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler says that IBF is fine with Golovkin facing Lemieux at the end of year without the mandatory defense getting in the way.

If Golden Boy wants the fight between Golovkin and Lemieux, then this is their chance to make it happen. There’s no other fights that they can match Lemieux up against next that would rival a Golovkin-Lemieux fight. Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez are both busy. There are no other middleweights or junior middleweights with Golovkin’s popularity. Unless Golden Boy wants to steer Lemieux away from the hard hitting Golovkin, then this is their big chance to make a fight between the two fighters.

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De La Hoya: Lemieux won’t fight Golovkin until 2016

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lemieux74By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya says that his fighter IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) won’t be facing WBA champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) until late 2016, because Lemieux has a mandatory defense that he needs to take care of at the end of 2015.

The opponent for Lemieux’s mandatory will come down to Sam Soliman, Eamonn O’Kane or Tureano Johnson. For Lemieux’s sake, he had better hope that it’s not Johnson because he could prove to a very, very tough opponent for him.

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