Gennady Golovkin boxing news
By Scott Gilfoid: Former Gennady Golovkin knockout victim Matthew Macklin has serious doubts whether British fighter Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) will be able to pull off an upset of the hard hitting Golovkin on February 21st in Monte Carlo.
Macklin notes that Murray doesn’t have much in the way of punching power, and he thinks that he’ll likely go to pieces if he actually tries to win the fight instead of him just looking to survive.
By Dan Ambrose: If WBA Super middleweight champion Andre Ward (27-0, 14 KOs) wants a big money fight against WBA 160 pound champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) then all he needs to do is have his management contact Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler to make an offer for a fight, according to Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez.
It’s a fight that Sanchez firmly believes that Golovkin can win, and he’s felt that way for a long time. The question is will Ward make the effort to try and setup the fight against Golovkin?
By Scott Gilfoid: On February 21st, trainer Abel Sanchez expects his fighter WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) to pick up his 20th consecutive knockout when he faces England’s Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) in their fight in Monte Carlo.
Sanchez has a ton of respect for the huge Murray, who looks more like a super middleweight in size rather than a middleweight, but he feels that Murray will be knocked out none the less.
Sanchez says that if Murray comes to fight instead of just cover up, he’ll get knocked out quickly by Golovkin well before the 5th. But if he plays possum and hides behind his guard like he did against Sergio Martinez, then Sanchez sees the fight lasting until the 5th round.
“He’s got 19 knockouts in a row. He’ll have 20 if everything goes well on the 21st. We’re taking him [Murray] very, very serious. If Gennady disposes with him it won’t be because Murray wasn’t that,” Sanchez said via Fighthype.com.
By Scott Gilfoid: Britain’s Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) will be looking to use his size advantage to win a world title on February 21st against the guy that many boxing fans feel is the best fighter in the 160lb division in WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs).
By Scott Gilfoid: While many people in the boxing world recognize WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) as being near super human in strength and talent, his opponent for February 21st, Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs), sees him as very human and very beatable.
Murray thinks he’s got what it takes to end Golovkin’s seven-year knockout streak and give him his first loss of his boxing career when the two of them face each other in two half weeks from now on 2/21 at the Salle des Étoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
By Scott Gilfoid: Tom Loeffler, the promoter for WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs), sees Gennady’s next opponent Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) as a dangerous opponent for him. Golovkin and Murray will be fighting in less than three weeks on February 21st at the Salle des Etoiles, Monte Carlo.
Murray is a huge underdog in this fight, and he’s considered mostly as just another B-level guy that Golovkin is going to mow down in this fight. The fact that Loeffler is building Murray up has me thinking the opposite about him. If Loeffler is building Murray up, it tells me that he sees him as another pushover for Golovkin to make easy work of.
By Dan Ambrose: WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler thinks WBC 160 pound champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) will look to take one title-milking fight to defend his WBC middleweight title, and then he’ll vacate the belt to avoid facing his mandatory challenger Golovkin.
Loeffler says he’s reached out to Cotto to try and setup a fight between him and Golovkin, and he’s had no luck.
By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBC, #5 WBA middleweight contender Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) says he’s sick of seeing WBA Super World 160lb champion Gennady Golovkin’s face after the 32-year-old Murray taped Golovkin’s face to his heavy bag in order to see it constantly during his training for their fight on February 21st at the Salle des Étoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Apparently, Murray is using Golovkin’s face on his heavy bag for some kind of motivation purposes. Whether it will make any real difference at all when they get inside the ring is unlikely.
By B.G.B: With the super-mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao nearing closer and closer to confirmation and the news that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will face James Kirkland, it would seem that WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto has been handed the short stick. It would be a total failure for boxing if he was to face Mayweather on May 2nd to prevent the mega-fight from happening but the good news is that scenario now seems increasingly less likely.
Team Cotto will or should be kicking themselves that they didn’t snatch at the opportunity to face Canelo rather than sit and wait for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight to again falter at the last stage.