Chavez Sr: Canelo can beat Golovkin

Image: Chavez Sr: Canelo can beat GolovkinBy Dan Ambrose: Boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. believes that WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has improved enough at this point in his career that he can now upend IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin if the two of them face each other next.

Chavez likes Canelo’s skills that he’s now showing right now, and he feels that he could give the 34-year-old Golovkin his first loss of his 12-year pro career. Unlike a lot of people who feel that Canelo is hiding behind his catch-weights as an excuse to avoid the Golovkin fight, Chavez sees Canelo as unafraid of the Kazakhstan fighter.

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Sulaiman confident Canelo-Golovkin fight will happen

golovkin299By Allan Fox: While many fans are skeptical about whether the unification fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) and IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) is a doable fight, World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman remains quietly confident that there will be a contract agreement between the two fighters. However, if that fails to happen, Sulaiman is ready to strip Canelo of his WBC title if he chooses to resist the idea of taking the fight. A purse bid is tentatively scheduled for a week from now on Tuesday, May 24, if the two sides haven’t reached an agreement by that time.

“I am completely confident the fight is going to happen,” Sulaiman said to the latimes.com earlier today. “Both fighters have made it clear they want it. The public, the fans and the press want it. It’s the right fight at the right time.”

One thing is clear; there will not be any additional interim fights before the Canelo-Golovkin fight takes place. There was a source that revealed that information to Fight News on Monday about a need for two to three more interim fights taking place before Canelo and Golovkin meet up.

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Canelo-Golovkin: One week to go before purse bid

canelo48By Dan Ambrose: The promoters for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and WBC belt holder Saul “Canelo” Alvarez have been in negotiations for a little over a week now to put together a mega-fight between the two fighters for September 17. There’s a scheduled purse bid next week on May 24 in case the two fighters’ teams are unable to reach a deal by then.

The way it’s looking, it could very well go to a purse bid. There’s total silence from both teams, which ESPN interprets as a good thing, but the deadline for the negotiations to be completed is fast approaching and it’s very possible this will go to a purse bid.

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Canelo vs. Golovkin news update

Image: Canelo vs. Golovkin news updateBy Dan Ambrose: It looks like the reports from earlier on Monday about WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin letting their fight marinate for another three more fights has turned out to be little more than speculation.

A source is saying to Fight News that the fight between Golovkin and Canelo won’t have any additional interim fights to help build the fight. The talk from today was Canelo would take two or three more interim fights against David Lemieux and/or Curtis Stevens. For his part, Golovkin would fight WBA World middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs.

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Golovkin not ready for Alvarez!

Image: Golovkin not ready for Alvarez!By Leigh K. Seto: In the era where PPV numbers are king, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the current WBC Middleweight champion, is the torch carrier of this new era. The assortment of Bubblegum belts has diluted their meaning and fighters like Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao exposed in recent past that belts are meaningless. Mayweather spent years avoiding Paul Williams and Pacquiao defended his title 7 times off guys who were rebounding after a loss.

Lets put this in perspective how corrupt these organizations still are. Canelo Alvarez is currently un-ranked by the WBA, the IBF, and the WBO in both Middleweight and Jr Middleweight divisions.

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Canelo vs. Golovkin to marinate more

canelo765555By Dan Ambrose: It looks like the much anticipated unification fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin might not be happening anytime soon unfortunately.

The two sides are locked away in negotiations for the fight, and according to fight news, one of the proposels being talked about is for the fight to marinate more so that it can grow. The idea is for Golovkin and Canelo to have another three fights to let the fight build to become a bigger fighter.

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Golovkin: What is the difference between want and must?

Image: Golovkin: What is the difference between want and must?By Askhat Bapiev: Two different words in meaning that describe very well one personality. What exactly lies under these two words are very familiar to the IBF/IBO/ WBA middleweight champion of the world Gennady “GGG Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs).

Golovkin has to defend his tittles as recently he did against Domenic Wade and other candidates are waiting for their time to shine. And we see this part as ‘must’

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Mayweather: Canelo shouldn’t fight Golovkin

floyd100By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. says if the popular Mexican fighter Saul Canelo Alvarez was under his promotional label, he wouldn’t let him fight the 34-year-old IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin right now. Mayweather thinks it’s too soon for Canelo to be fighting the Kazakstan fighter. Some boxing fans think Mayweather doesn’t want Canelo to fight Golovkin because if he loses to Golovkin, it will cheapen Mayweather’s win over Canelo from 2013. If Golovkin does a better job of beating Canelo than Mayweather did, then it would make Golovkin look great and Mayweather look not so great.

Mayweather brings up the example of how he could have pulled the trigger on a fight against Manny Pacquiao many years ago when fans wanted him to take the fight back in 2009. Mayweather would have made $60 million for the fight against Pacquiao if he’d taken it at the time.

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Canelo Alvarez and the business of boxing

Image: Canelo Alvarez and the business of boxingBy Isaac Marin: This past Cinco de Mayo weekend, WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) inserted the finishing touches to a scripted bout with Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) by way of knockout in the sixth round. The perceived mismatch is now being rumored to have brought in a little under 600,000 pay per view buys on HBO.

What many boxing experts are considering as positive numbers, many fans are deeming 600,000 pay per view buys as a failure for the fight. Thanks to the numbers that Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao have generated in the past, anything under 1 million buys for someone who is considered as a up and comer or a super star is going to be scrutinized for not being able to hit that mark.

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Loeffler confident Canelo-Golovkin fight will get made

Image: Loeffler confident Canelo-Golovkin fight will get madeBy Dan Ambrose: Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions says he feels confident about the chances of the middleweight unification fight between WBC champ Saul Canelo Alvarez and IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champ Gennady “GGG” Golovkin can get made now that Canelo has beaten Amir Khan.

Before that fight took place, Loeffler says he wasn’t sure if he could make the fight between Canelo and Golovkin. But now that Canelo has beaten Khan, the pressure is on Canelo from the boxing fans and the media. Canelo now realizes how big of a fight it’ll be against Golovkin, says Loeffler.

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