By Dan Ambrose: Former WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin says Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin fights the same way each time while Saul Canelo Alvarez adapts each time he competes. Quillin isn’t coming right out to make a prediction for the Canelo-GGG 2 rematch on May 5, but he seems to be giving Canelo the best chance of winning due to his ability to adapt.
By Allan Fox: Former middleweight world champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-1-1, 23 KOs) will be returning to the ring next month on September 8 in a 10 round scheduled fight against an opponent still to be determined at 170 pound maximum limit at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Dan Ambrose: Middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s constant pressure of being in front of his opponents at all times is what could cause Saul “Canelo” Alvarez problems on September 16th more so than GGG’s power, says former 160 pound champion Pete Quillin. Golovkin and Quillin sparred with each other in the past.
By Allan Fox: Former WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin thinks there’s a chance that Andre “SOG” Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) could totally overwhelm former IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) with his class when the two fighters face each other on June 17 in their rematch on HBO pay-per-view. Quillin says there’s a chance that Ward could pull a similar number against Kovalev in the second fight as Floyd Mayweather Jr. did in beating Jose Luis Castillo by a 12 round unanimous decision in their rematch on December 7, 2002.
By Jeff Aranow: Former middleweight champion Peter Quillin is looking forward to seeing tonight’s unification fight between WBA welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman (27-0, 22 KOs) and WBC champion Danny “Swift” Garcia (33-0, 19 KOs) in their match on Premier Boxing Champions on CBS.
Quillin thinks the Garcia-Thurman fight is a match that could go either way depending on whether Garcia can land one of his big power shots. If there’s going to be a knockout in this fight, then Quillin sees Garcia being the one to get it. Quillin says that Thurman can be hurt, as he’s been hurt a number of ties in his fights.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO middleweight champion Peter Quillin sees Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) having it tough going against Errol Spence Jr. (21-0, 18 KOs) in his next fight on May 20. Quillin says that Brook has a lot on his plate due to him having lost his last fight against middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, and now having to face one of the best prospects in boxing in Spence. It’s not good timing at all for Brook to have to face a fighter like the 26-year-old Spence right after the Golovkin fight.
Former IBF 147lb champion Shawn Porter also believes that Spence can beat Brook. Porter is well familiar with both fighters, and he thinks that Spence will emerge as the winner in the fight.
By Jeff Aranow: Former WBO middleweight champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-1-1, 23 KOs) will be turning 33-years-old this month, and he’s dropping some big hints about making a ring return. Quillin believes the boxing public when they see him. It’s unknown why the fans will be excited because there wasn’t much to be excited about Quillin’s last performance against WBA World middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs last December.
Quillin was knocked out in the 1st round by Jacobs, and he fortune the referee stopped the fight when he did. Jacobs was unloading on a near defenseless Quillin at the time referee Harvey Dock stepped in and saved Quillin from potentially getting seriously hurt.
By Dan Ambrose: The recently beaten former WBO middleweight champion Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-1-1, 23 KOs) says he wants a rematch against WBA “regular” middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (31-1, 28 KOs), who stopped him in the 1st round in their fight last December. Jacobs hurt Quillin with a right hand in the opening seconds of that fight, and then flurried on him until referee Harvey Dock was forced to step in and stop the contest. Quillin was staggering around the ring at the time of the stoppage. Dock did the right thing by stopping it when he did because if he had allowed it to continue, Jacobs would have surely planted Quillin on the canvas.
Both fighters are managed by the same guy in Al Haymon. If he wants to put them back in together, then he can definitely do that and then put the fight on Showtime or one of the free televisions on Premier Boxing Champions.
By Al Classico: Billy Joe Saunders (23-0, 12 KO’s), The undefeated WBO champion threw a real spanner into the works when he defeated Andy Lee in late 2015 and derailed a potential, higher profile Lee- Golovkin showdown this year. With the defeat of Lee and the acquisition of a ‘world champion’ belt, his name was immediately thrust into the conversation as a next up Golovkin opponent.
According to some reports, there was an offer tabled to Saunders for a fight against Golovkin in April, however the negotiations collapsed, with money allegedly being the biggest barrier to the deal being struck. Saunders has since opted to go in a different direction at this stage of his career but hopefully this fight can be made at some point in the not-too-distant future as it will be a really intriguing match-up. So if the fight does eventually get made, how would Saunders fare if he were to step up and step into the ring with Golovkin?
By Dan Ambrose: Last Saturday night’s card between WBA “regular’ middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs (31-1, 28 KOs) and Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin (32-1-1, 23 KOs) brought in really low viewing numbers on Showtime Championship Boxing from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. According to Dan Rafael, the Jacobs-Quillin fight averaged a pitiful 386,000 viewers with a peak of 408,000 viewers on Showtime.
The fight ended in a 1st round knockout with Jacobs blasting Quillin out, but the viewing numbers still should have been better than that if there was any fan interest in the middleweight contest.