By Scott Gilfoid: Former Gennady Golovkin knockout victim Matthew Macklin has serious doubts whether British fighter Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) will be able to pull off an upset of the hard hitting Golovkin on February 21st in Monte Carlo.
Macklin notes that Murray doesn’t have much in the way of punching power, and he thinks that he’ll likely go to pieces if he actually tries to win the fight instead of him just looking to survive.
By Scott Gilfoid: On February 21st, trainer Abel Sanchez expects his fighter WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) to pick up his 20th consecutive knockout when he faces England’s Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) in their fight in Monte Carlo.
Sanchez has a ton of respect for the huge Murray, who looks more like a super middleweight in size rather than a middleweight, but he feels that Murray will be knocked out none the less.
Sanchez says that if Murray comes to fight instead of just cover up, he’ll get knocked out quickly by Golovkin well before the 5th. But if he plays possum and hides behind his guard like he did against Sergio Martinez, then Sanchez sees the fight lasting until the 5th round.
“He’s got 19 knockouts in a row. He’ll have 20 if everything goes well on the 21st. We’re taking him [Murray] very, very serious. If Gennady disposes with him it won’t be because Murray wasn’t that,” Sanchez said via Fighthype.com.
By Scott Gilfoid: Britain’s Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) will be looking to use his size advantage to win a world title on February 21st against the guy that many boxing fans feel is the best fighter in the 160lb division in WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs).
By Scott Gilfoid: While many people in the boxing world recognize WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) as being near super human in strength and talent, his opponent for February 21st, Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs), sees him as very human and very beatable.
Murray thinks he’s got what it takes to end Golovkin’s seven-year knockout streak and give him his first loss of his boxing career when the two of them face each other in two half weeks from now on 2/21 at the Salle des Étoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
By Scott Gilfoid: Tom Loeffler, the promoter for WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs), sees Gennady’s next opponent Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) as a dangerous opponent for him. Golovkin and Murray will be fighting in less than three weeks on February 21st at the Salle des Etoiles, Monte Carlo.
Murray is a huge underdog in this fight, and he’s considered mostly as just another B-level guy that Golovkin is going to mow down in this fight. The fact that Loeffler is building Murray up has me thinking the opposite about him. If Loeffler is building Murray up, it tells me that he sees him as another pushover for Golovkin to make easy work of.
By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBC, #5 WBA middleweight contender Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) says he’s sick of seeing WBA Super World 160lb champion Gennady Golovkin’s face after the 32-year-old Murray taped Golovkin’s face to his heavy bag in order to see it constantly during his training for their fight on February 21st at the Salle des Étoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Apparently, Murray is using Golovkin’s face on his heavy bag for some kind of motivation purposes. Whether it will make any real difference at all when they get inside the ring is unlikely.
By Scott Gilfoid: In less than a month from now 32-year-old Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) will be stepping up a level to take on what is clearly the biggest test of his career in facing knockout artist Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28 KOs) for his WBA Super World middleweight title on February 21st at the Salle des Étoiles, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
It could be all but impossible for Murray to be able to take more than 3-4 rounds of punishment against Golovkin in this fight. Murray has good punch resistance, but he’s going to be getting hit in the head and body by arguably the hardest hitter in the division in Golovkin and that’s going to make it tough on Murray to upright for long.
By B.G.B: Martin Murray is perhaps the most overlooked and underestimated contender in the middleweight division. He has an outstanding professional record of 29 wins, 1 draw and just 1 defeat. A hard fought battle against former IBF/WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm ended in a draw back in 2011. Murray proved that he was a worthy contender that night and may have been awarded a victory on points had the bout not taken place in Germany.
Murray’s only loss was even more questionable losing to former WBC champion Sergio Martinez in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. Murray knocked Martinez down twice although only one of the knockdowns was made official by the referee for some strange ruling. Personally I felt Martin had done more than enough to dethrone the pound for pound star in his own back yard but not surprisingly the judges saw differently.