Canelo with edge over Golovkin

1-canelo-cotto (9)By Francisco Gurrola: The thought and imagination of a potential clash between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will come to closure soon. It is a matter of time before these two warriors face each other insde the ring. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar de la Hoya has chosen to let the fight marinate a little longer before it takes place in late 2016. The decision makes a lot of economical sense, as business people their job is to make the most money out of their fighters; this is how you do it.

Gennady Golovkin an excellent fighter with great skills and power has shocked the boxing world and has made his name known and spoken of by many followers and fans of boxing. “GGG” is an exciting fighter that moves very well inside the ring, he closes the gaps between him and his opponent and goes in for the kill.

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Mayweather Sr: Golovkin is not a good fighter; Canelo beats him

golovkin5554(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he does not think IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) is a good fighter at all, and he feels that WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) will likely still beat him in their fight in 2016.

Floyd Sr. says that Golovkin has slow hand speed, and he was not impressed with how he looked in his fight against Willie Monroe Jr. earlier this year in May. Golovkin won the fight by a 6th round knockout, but Monroe had his moments in the fight in landing some nice shots in rounds 3 through 5.

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Can Canelo beat Golovkin?

1-canelo-cotto-results (17)By Yannis Mihanos: In many of his past fights, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) appears to have had a weight advantage over his opponents. Often times, Canelo has looked like the bigger and stronger guy over his smaller opposition.

Canelo dishes punishment with his power punches and demoralizes fighters appearing unfazed from their attacks and punches. His last victim was WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, looked in front of him half the size of the 25-year-old Canelo.

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Golovkin’s trainer: Canelo won’t last 9 rounds with GGG

golovkin5554By Dan Ambrose: Earlier this week, the World Boxing Council ruled that WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) can take a voluntary defense before facing his #1 WBC mandatory challenger Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in the second half of 2016 as part of a mandatory defense.

The delay in the title defense by Canelo is driven in part by the desire to let his fight against Golovkin marinate so that it can be bigger than it would be if it were to take place next. Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez understands why Canelo and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions want the Canelo-Golovkin fight to marinate.

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Roach: Golovkin beats Canelo if the fight happens

Boxing: Golovkin vs LemieuxBy Dan Ambrose: Trainer Freddie Roach believes that Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) will beat WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) if the fight takes place in the future. Roach thinks that Golovkin could be the No.1 pound-for-pound fighter in the sport today, but he just can’t prove it because there are so few fighters that want to face him right now.

Roach thinks that Golovkin’s promoters at K2 Promotions wasted a lot of time with his career by choosing to keep in Germany fighting for many years after he turned pro. It wasn’t until 2010 that Golovkin started fighting in the U.S off and on.

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Golovkin’s rep says Canelo fight will take place late 2016

golovkin5554(Photo credit: World Boxing Council) By Dan Ambrose: Unless we see WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) pulling the nuclear option of vacating his title, we’ll be seeing a big mega-fight between him and interim WBC middleweight champ Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in the second half of 2016. This has been confirmed by a representative from Golovkin’s team. Vacating his WBC title won’t hurt Canelo, because he has a ton of casual boxing fans that wouldn’t be too bothered by him giving up the belt. They just want to see him fight and win. Any title that Canelo might have is secondary and less important.

They met with the World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman last Monday and he got an agreement from the two fighter’s promoters Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions and Eric Gomez of Golden Boy Promotions that the fighters would both take voluntary fights in the first quarter of next year before facing each other in late 2016, likely in September.

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WBC’s extension for Canelo expires on Monday

canelo5666By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman’s extension for WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) expires this Monday for him to come to a deal with #1 WBC mandatory challenger Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) for a fight between them. The WBC gave Canelo an extension last Saturday, but it remains to be seen whether the fight will be negotiated by Monday.

It’s starting to look like Canelo made the mistake of fighting WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto for his title, because with the title came the huge responsibility of having to defend the belt against Golovkin in the first defense.

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WBC extends Canelo-Golovkin negotiations until Monday

1-cotto-canelo-results (8)By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says he’s extending the negotiations between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) and #1 WBC mandatory challenger Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) until Monday. It’s unknown what Sulaiman will do when Monday comes around and there’s still no deal for a fight between them.

Going by what Sulaiman has been doing recently, he’ll likely give Canelo another extension for the negotiations rather than playing hardball by ordering a purse bid or threatening to strip him of his WBC title.

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Sanchez: Canelo vs. GGG @ 155 is an insult to all great warriors that fought at 160

1-CottoCaneloArrivals_Hoganphotos8By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Abel Sanchez thinks WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s interest in fighting Gennady GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) at a catch-weight of 155lbs is a very disrespectful to the sport of boxing. Sanchez also thinks it is disrespectful to all the great warriors that have fought in the past in the normal weight classes without catch-weight handicaps to try to get an unfair edge against their opponents.

Sanchez feels that Canelo and Miguel Cotto is a couple of divas who have tried to put themselves ahead of the sport of boxing by gaming the system by using catch-weight handicaps to gain an edge over their opponents.

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WBC extends Canelo-Golovkin negotiations until December 11th

1-GolovkinLemieux_Hoganphotos1By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman says they’ll be extending the negotiations between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and mandatory WBC challenger Gennady Golovkin until December 11th.

Suliaman is using the Thanksgiving day holiday as an excuse for why the Canelo-Golovkin negotiations couldn’t be moved in a timely fashion. It’s a pretty flimsy excuse though because they should have known about the holiday already.

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