By Dan Ambrose: Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez denies his fighter is injured, as what was recently reported by WBO middleweight champion Frank Warren. Sanchez says he doesn’t know where they came up with Golovkin being injured, but he says not injured. Sanchez would obviously know if Golovkin came out of the Daniel Jacobs fight with an injury.
By Scott Gilfoid: Abel Sanchez, the trainer for middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, is picking IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook to defeat Errol Spence Jr. on May 27. Sanchez thinks the 27-year-old Spence Jr. (21-0, 18 KOs0 is taking the fight too soon in his career against the 30-year-old Brook, who he feels is much more experienced in terms of big fights. Brook has been involved in 2 big fights in his career against Golovkin and Shawn Porter.
By Dan Ambrose: Saul Canelo Alvarez is a fake middleweight, and he’ll be knocked out if he faces middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, says his trainer Abel Sanchez. He thinks Canelo doesn’t want the fight against Golovkin, because he and his promoter Oscar De L Hoya knows he gets knocked out when that fight happens. Sanchez says if the Canelo fight happens for Golovkin, then it’s good. If it doesn’t happen, then they’ll move on and keep doing what they’ve been doing in winning fight. Sanchez repeatedly says Golovkin is focused on his fight this Saturday night against Daniel Jacobs, but the future fight against Canelo is there in the background that he’s thinking about.
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Abel Sanchez says that his fighter Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will wind up blasting out Daniel Jacobs by the 7th or 8th round this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Sanchez sees Jacobs coming out fast looking to test Golovkin in the first couple of rounds with his best shots.
By Allan Fox: One of the major things that worries Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez about Daniel Jacobs is his ability to box and move around the ring for their fight on March 18 at Madison Square Garden in New York. That’s an area of concern for Sanchez, as most of the guys that GGG has fought during his decade long career have been fighters with slow feet that he’s been able to force into fighting.
If Jacobs chooses to move for 12 rounds, it could be difficult for Golovkin to land his power shots. Jacobs is very likely going to use a game plan that involves limiting Golovkin’s punch output. The way for Jacobs to do this is to move, jab and hold. Those are tried and true methods that fighters often use when fighting huge punchers like Golovkin.
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Abel Sanchez believes that Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) is making a mistake being so heavy for his upcoming fight this month against Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) on March 18. Jacobs weighed in at 174 pounds for the World Boxing Council mandated 30-day weigh-in, and was 9 lbs. heavier than GGG, who weighed in at 165 lbs. With that much weight, Jacobs appears to be looking to beat Golovkin on size rather than speed.
Sanchez sees that as a blunder on Jacobs and his trainer’s part, because he doesn’t see him being any faster with the added weight. In fact, Sanchez believes that Jacobs will be slower for having to carry around all the weight.
By Dan Ambrose: Many boxing fans have the mistaken belief that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) has poor defensive skills and is easy to hit, which they think could come back to haunt him in his fight against Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) on March 18 in their fight on HBO pay-per-view at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says that’s the farthest thing to the truth. Sanchez says that Golovkin won’t be careless in his fight against the 29-year-old Jacobs, although he doesn’t see the fight lasting more than eight rounds due to Golovkin’s huge punching power.
By Jeff Aranow: Trainer Abel Sanchez says he thinks WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia takes the unification fight against WBA champion Keith “One Time” Thurman on March 4. The two fighters are now a little over a month away from their big fight on Showtime Championship Boxing on CBS rom the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Sanchez says he wasn’t impressed with Thurman’s past fights against Luis Collazo and Diego Chaves. Thurman was hurt in both of those fights. He also barely beat Shawn Porter last year in a grueling 12 round fight in which Thurman had to use a lot of movement to keep from getting chopped down.
By Dan Ambrose: Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez isn’t ruling out an upset victory for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) in his fight against favorite Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) in their fight on May 6. Sanchez says that the fight could be turned around by one big punch from Chavez Jr. to Canelo. When he’s at his best, Chavez Jr. is kind of a beat with his ability to absorb shots and dish out punishment. who can forget how Chavez Jr. made the 5’10” Sergio Martinez look small in comparison in their fight in 2012. Martinez is taller than Canelo by at least an inch, possibly two. We don’t really know how tall Canelo is. He might be shorter than his listed height of 5’9″.
Sanchez believes that Golovkin is at risk of losing his next fight to WBA World middleweight champion Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs (32-1, 29 KOs) on March 18. Jacobs is a big puncher, and viewed as a risky fight for Golovkin. Of the two fights, you’d have to say that Golovkin is at greater risk of losing to Jacobs than Canelo is in facing the ring rusty Chavez Jr, who will need to melt down to 164 ½ pounds to face him at a catch-weight.
By Dan Ambrose: Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez doesn’t think there is anyone in the middleweight division that can beat Golovkin right now and that includes WBA ‘regular 160lb champion Daniel Jacobs. Sanchez rates Jacobs as a good fighter, who only has one loss on his resume from his defeat to Dmitry Pirog six years ago. But he doesn’t see the 29-year-old Jacobs as being able to go the distance with Golovkin when the two fighters face each other on March 18 on HBO PPV at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Sanchez as seen all the wins that Jacobs has compiled since his loss to Pirog in 2010, but he sees those guys as being in a different class as Golovkin. Jacobs’ wins over those fighters proved that he can beat them, but they mean nothing for what he’s about to deal with when he gets inside the ring with GGG.