By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) vs. Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) is less than two months away for their April 23 fight on HBO Championship Boxing from the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Golovkin is trying to stay focused on his training and not get distracted by the fights going around him, as well as his hoped for clash later this year in September against WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.
By Dan Ambrose: The tickets for the April 23 fight between IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and Dominic Wade are literally selling like hotcakes for their fight at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
With exactly two months to go before the fight, 8000 tickets have already been sold and it seems almost academic that the fight will sellout. It’ll be televised on HBO Championship Boxing, so fans that couldn’t get tickets will still be able to see it live. If Golovkin can sellout tickets like this against an over-matched opponent like the 25-year-old Wade, then what kind of tickets sales will we be looking at in a Golovkin vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight later this year? We might be talking about a fight that could sell out the 80,000 seat AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Of course, that would require that Canelo agree to fight Golovkin, and right now it’s still not known whether the 25-year-old Canelo will ever agree to take that fight. I take that back. I do think Canelo will agree to fight Golovkin in the future, but it might not be until he gets a little older and starts showing signs of having lost some of his power and talent.
Los Angeles, CA (February 23, 2016) Over 50% of the tickets available for UNDEFEATED have been purchased as boxing fans worldwide are acting quickly in great anticipation of superstars’ Gennady “GGG” Golovkin and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez return to The Fabulous Forum on Saturday, April 23 in separate bouts. The event will be televised Live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
By Dan Ambrose: Promoter Tom Loeffler is taking a wait and see approach with WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as far as whether he’ll choose to defend his title against interim WBC challenger Gennady “GGG” Golovkin later this year as mandated by the World Boxing Council. Loeffler, who promotes Golovkin, believes that Canelo is too proud to just give up his WBC title without a fight by facing Golovkin. Loeffler doesn’t think that Canelo is the type to vacate his WBC title in order to avoid Gennady.
If Canelo chooses not to face Golovkin, then he’ll be stripped of his WBC title and Golovkin will be made the new WBC middleweight champion, according to Loeffler.
By Tim Fletcher: Unbeaten #3 IBF Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) isn’t afraid of IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs), because he sees him as just another fighter with flaws like any other person. Wade, 25, will be looking to take advantage of the flaws in the 33-year-old Golovkin’s game when the two of them meet each other on April 23 on HBO, at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Wade never wavered at accepting the fight against Golovkin when it was offered to him by his manager Al Haymon. Wade believes he can beat Golovkin and pull off a huge upset on April 23.
Boxing Superstar and Undefeated, Unified Middleweight World Champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, 34-0 (31KO’s) and Undefeated Mandatory Challenger Dominic “Lights Out” Wade, 18-0 (12KO’s), met for the first time in front of the New York City media at Madison Square Garden, “The Mecca of Boxing”, to formally announce UNDEFEATED, their April 23rd showdown at the Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles and televised Live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten #3 IBF challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) showed up on Thursday for his press conference in New York City with IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) and he made it clear that he’s not afraid of the Kazakhstan fighter despite being much younger than him. The 25-year-old Wade will be challenging Golovkin on April 23 on HBO Championship Boxing from the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Wade is a huge underdog in this fight, and one reason for that is he is fighting what many fans see as the best fighter in the 160lb division. Wade has not established himself as one of the top fighters in the middleweight division.
(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Allan Fox: Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions says that over 6,000 tickets were sold on the first day that they went on sale for the April 23 fight between IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) and challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) for their fight at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Loeffler, the promoter for Golovkin, expects the fight to be a sellout. The Forum has a seating capacity of 17,505. That would be a real show of Golovkin’s ability to sell tickets if the fight turns out to be a sellout.
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) has a simple reason why he’s fighting unbeaten and totally untested #3 IBF Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) on April 23 rather than fighting someone better known. Golovkin points out that Wade is unbeaten and is his #1 IBF mandatory challenger. That appears to be the only reason why he was selected.
Those are reasons enough to fight the 25-year-old American. If Golovkin were to steer around the Wade fight, he would need a very good reason to present to the International Boxing Federation.
By Jeff Aranow: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) will be making a less than exciting title defense on April 23 against his IBF mandatory challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) on HBO Championship Boxing from the Forum in Inglewood, California.
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler says the reason they selected Wade was because they couldn’t get any of the world champions at 1160 to take the fight with Golovkin. Wade, 25, was the fall back plan after they struck out in getting the other belt holders at middleweight to face GGG.