By Allan Fox: A fight between WBA middleweight Gennady Golovkin (29-0, 26 KO’s) and former IBF/WBA 160lb. champion Daniel Geale (30-2, 16 KO’s) has been given the green light for July 26th, according to AAP. The World Boxing Association granted Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler’s request to let Golovkin bypass an WBA ordered title defense against #2 WBA Jarrod Fletcher in order to take a bigger and far more interesting fight against Geale.
The Golovkin-Geale fight will be televised by HBO. It’s possible that the co-feature will see heavyweights Bryant Jennings and Mike Perez facing each other in a battle of unbeaten heavyweights. The fight card is probably going to need a lot more than this for it to have a chance of selling out the garden because the Australian Geale doesn’t have a fan base in the New York area, and Golovkin still isn’t a huge ticket seller either.