By William Mackay: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (37-2-2, 16 KO’s) is supposed to be facing his mandatory Gennady Golovkin (22-0, 19 KO’s). Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as if the 33-year-old Sturm is going to take that fight.
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Sturm looking for permission from WBA to fight Zbik on April 13th instead of Golovkin
By Dan Ambrose: WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm (36-2-2, 15 KO’s) is looking to get permission from the World Boxing Association to bypass his mandatory challenger Gennady Golovkin in order to take on #2 World Boxing Association ranked contender and former WBC middleweight champion Sebastian Zbik (30-1, 10 KO’s) on April 13th, according to German news site Bild.de.
Golovkin stops Simon in 1st round KO
By Eric Thomas: WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (ww-0, 19 KO’s) made short work of #14 ranked World Boxing Association challenger Lajuan Simon (23-4-2, 12 KO’s) on Friday night, stopping him in the 1st round with a tremendous left hook to the head in Ballsaal Interconti-Hotel, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Referee Jose Ignacio Martinez halted the fight at 2:17 of the round.
Golovkin vs. Simon on October 15: Gennady off to a terrible start as WBA champion
By Dan Ambrose: WBA regular middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (21-0, 18 KO’s) has picked from the bottom of the World Boxing Association rankings to find his next opponent Lajuan Simon (23-3-2, 12 KO’s) to defend his title against on October 15th in Golovkin’s home country of Almaty, Kazakhstan. Golovkin is milking his title like a champion.
Golovkin TKOs Ouma in the 10th
By Dan Ambrose: Making his first defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) World middleweight title unbeaten champion Gennady Golovkin (21-0, 18 KO’s) stopped former IBF junior middleweight champ Kassim Ouma (27-8-1, 17 KO’s) in the 10th round at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama. TGolovkin, 29, hurt Ouma with a series of hard shots in the 10th round and was punishing him on the ropes when the referee Guillermo Perez stopped the fight at 1:57 of the round.
Golovkin vs. Ouma this Friday
By Jim Dower: This Friday night unbeaten WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (20-0, 17 KO’s) will be defending his title against number #8 ranked WBC contender Kassim Ouma (27-7-1, 17 KO’s) at the Arena Roberto Duran, in Panama City, Panama. This will be the second title defense for the 29-year-old Golovkin and it should be a real test of how good he is.
Golovkin vs. Ouma on June 2nd
By Dan Ambrose: Making his first defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) middleweight title, champion Gennady Golovkin (20-0, 17 KO’s) will be facing #10 ranked WBA contender Kassim Ouma (27-1-1, 17 KO’s) on June 2nd at the Arena Roberto Duran in Panama City, Panama. This isn’t the fight that boxing fans wanted to see from Golovkin. Many of them were hoping he would face unbeaten interim WBA middleweight champion Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam instead for a battle between unbeaten middleweights.
Golovkin vs. Nunez for WBA middleweight interim title on August 14th
By Dan Ambrose: Number #1 ranked WBA middleweight contender Gennady Golovkin (18-0, 15 KO’s) will be fighting Colombian middleweight contender Milton Nunez (21-1-1, 19 KO’s) for the World Boxing Association middleweight interim title on August 14th at the Arena Roberto Duran, in Panama City, Panama. Instead of fighting Nunez, who is only ranked number #13 by the WBA, Golovkin should be fighting WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm for the title. After all, Sturm hasn’t defended his WBA title for an entire year since July 11th 2009, and it’s silly that’s allowed to hold onto the title for an entire year without once defending it. Sturm, 31, will finally be defending his WBA middleweight title on September 4th against Giovanni Lorenzo, who oddly enough, isn’t even ranked in the top 15 by the WBA.
Will the middleweights rule? Golovkin, Martinez, Jacobs, Pavlik, More!
by Ronnie Jordan: The welterweight division is currently regarded by many as the strongest and most talent packed in boxing. It’s hard to argue with this when the division posses not only the two best pound for pound fighters in the world but also a supporting cast of world class boxers like Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito, Shane Mosley, and Joshua Clottey. This crop of welterweights may be one of the best group of talent ever to fight at the same weight in the same era.
Golovkin-Smith, Chakhkiev-Solomon, Erdei-Fragomeni on November 21st
By Erik Schmidt: Former 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist for Kazakhstan, Gennady Golovkin (17-0, 14 KO’s) will be facing American Ishe Smith (21-4, 9 KO’s) on November 21st in a 12 round title bout at the Sparkassen Arena, Kiel, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Golovkin, 27, the World Boxing Organization Inter-Continental middleweight champion, will be making a big step up competition by facing the 31-year-old defensive wizard Smith. Golovkin is ranked number #1 in both the WBO and World Boxing Council, and number #2 in the WBA and #8 in the IBF, despite having fought largely European fighters in Germany.