Gennady Golovkin boxing news
By Dan Ambrose: Once WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) takes care of business against WBC interim 160lb champ Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs) on October 18th, he wants to go after several big names in 2015 for pay-per-view fights.
Golovkin wants WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in 2015. Golovkin says he’s ready to take any of those three on next year with his WBA title on the line for the fights.
By Gav Duthie: The three greatest words that every challenging boxer wants to hear “AND THE NEW”, signifying they have reached their ultimate goal and won a world title.
With 17 weight divisions, 4 main governing bodies and two titles distributed by the WBA (regular and super) we can have up to 85 world champions at any one time. This article looks at the 10 titles most likely to change hands over the next year.
(1- most likely, 10- least likely)
(10) WBO Featherweight – Johnny Gonzalez
By Cameron Gillon: WBA and IBO middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin was interview this past week about his upcoming bout against Mexican Marco Antonio Rubio which has been built as ‘Mexican Style.”
By Allan Fox: Steve Kim is reporting that former super middleweight title challenger Edwin Rodriguez (24-1, 16 KOs) is a possibility for the undercard of the October 18th fight card headlined by WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin vs. WBC interim middleweight champion Marco Antonio Rubio.
Rodriguez, one of the more talented fighters in the 168 pound division, hasn’t fought since he lost a 12 round unanimous decision to WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward last November.
By Bob Smith: In honor of the occasion of writing this article, and also to refresh my memory, I re-watched the fight between Marco Antonio Rubio and then undefeated middleweight David Lemieux.
Though Lemieux was the favorite and the harder puncher, and is still a top 10 or top 20 middleweight even now, four or five years later, the cunning, technique, defense, boxing skill, endurance, and confidence of Rubio were enough to allow him to weather the early onslaught from an overconfident Lemieux and come back with the beautiful win. Can Rubio repeat this feat in his fight with Golovkin?
First, before anything else, I want to say on a personal level that Marco Antonio Rubio is one of my favorite middle weights of this era. Sure, I like Golovkin best, and a few years ago, it was Martinez who was perhaps my favorite overall fighter, but Rubio was always in the top 6 or so. And the reason is that if I ever were a boxer, I would fight like him – he has a swimmers body, even more so than does Golovkin – broad shoulders, thin, long arms, respectable punching power for weight but nothing incredible, but more than anything else, he is a very well conditioned athlete, skilled defender, and a very intelligent fighter who sizes up his opponents well and has excellent game plans. (Yes, you guessed it, legendary writer Bob Smith is a former skilled swimmer who holds records from childhood that have lasted 20+ years.)
By Raj Parmar: Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KO’s) is looking at 2015 as the year he makes the transition from boxing titlist to superstar.
Golovkin won the WBA middleweight title in 2010 and has successfully defended the strap each time inside the distance since becoming world champion. Golovkin is scheduled to defend the title against challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KO’s) on October 18 and can also pick up the interim WBC title at the same time.
By Dan Ambrose: In what has to be taken as a warning for WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs), what 160 pound champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) said that he thinks the tiny 5’7” Cotto is too small to be fighting in the middleweight division.
Golovkin says he believes that Cotto is just doesn’t have the size to be fighting in the 160 pound weight class, and believes that Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs) is the toughest challenge he has I the division, not Cotto.
Cotto is the exact same size at the 5’7” Curtis Stevens, a fighter that Golovkin bludgeoned for 8 one-sided rounds last November until the fight was finally halted in the 8th. Stevens has the same kind of punching power that Cotto has.
By Chris Williams: WBA Super World featherweight champion Nonito Donaire (33-2, 21 KOs) will be defending his title against WBA World featherweight champion Nicholas Walters (24-0, 20 KOs) in the co-feature bout on the Gennady Golovkin vs. Marco Antonio Rubio card on October 18th in a fight televised by HBO Championship Boxing from the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Donaire-Walters is arguably the best co-feature bout on a major fight card since the Lucas Matthysse vs. Danny Garcia fight last year in September when that fight was the co-feature on the Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight card.
By Rhodri Cording: This is one of the most divisive topics relating to the sport we love and enjoy at present, just who is being avoided and who is doing the avoiding. I would like to present a few case studies of undefeated fighters that are still fighting to try and get to the bottom of this never ending talking point and give you my opinions of this matter.
Before I start, I must say that it is often not the fighters that are doing the avoiding. Promoters wouldn’t be doing their jobs properly if they were putting promising, inexperienced fighters in the ring with a level that was too high for them too early on.
By Dan Ambrose: Marco Antonio Rubio’s WBC interim 160 pound title will be up for grabs in his fight against WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) on October 18th, according to Steve Kim and Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions.
This means that the winner of the Golovkin-Rubio fight will be the mandatory challenger for WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that Cotto will necessarily face the winner of the Rubio-Golovkin fight, because Cotto could very well vacate his WBC title rather than face Golovkin or Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs).