Arizona Boxing News & Notes with Don Smith
Boxing Fans, On Friday, September 8 at the Joint venue inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, 20 year old David Benavidez (19-0-17 knockouts) fulfilled his boyhood dream by winning a world boxing title, the vacant WBC Super Middleweight Crown. He wore a tribute to his late uncle on his trunks. In our last column we detailed the death of his friend and relative.
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is expecting big things from the middleweight clash between his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin on September 16 next month.
By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) is training for his clash with IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) on September 16, and he wants the boxing fans to know that he has the superior fighting style of the two. Canelo, 27, is a stationary counter puncher, who waits for his opponents to attack him with combinations so that he can land his left hook counter, which is by far his best weapon.
By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has a lot riding on his fight against middleweight knockout artist Gennady “GGG” Golovkin on September 16. Canelo has not only chance to beat Golovkin to capture his three middleweight titles, but he also can gain a great deal of boxing fans that have been slow in becoming fans of his.
By Jeff Aranow: Going by what trainer Abel Sanchez is saying, Saul “Canelo Alvarez won’t be able to stand up to the fire power and extreme pressure Gennady “GGG’ Golovkin will be putting on him during their fight on September 16. This is how Sanchez sees the fight ending up. Unlike the fawning of some boxing fans about Canelo’s defensive skills, Sanchez sees defensive flaws in Canelo’s game that will make him easy to hit by Triple G and easy prey on September 16.
By Michael Montero — It’s official.
On September 16th, 2017 Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will finally lock horns after circling around one another for two years. The venue has not been set, but the two leading contenders to land the bout are T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Canelo-Golovkin is the biggest fight that can be made in boxing at the moment, and easily the biggest fight since the Mayweather-Pacquiao debacle two years ago, but it will not be the first super-fight of 2017.
By Dan Ambrose: As far as WBO super featherweight champion Vasy Lomachenko is concerned, IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin will beat Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez when the two of them face each in September if the fight takes place then. Lomachenko sees Golovkin as a monster with huge power.
Lomachenko isn’t the only one that is impressed with Golovkin’s power and skill. Former cruiserweight world title challenger Ola Afolabi rates Golovkin’s power as good as a heavyweight, because he’s sparred with him before in the past.
By Dan Ambrose: Golden boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya told the boxing media this week that he is absolutely certain that the mega-fight between Golden Boy fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will get made for 2017.
De La Hoya says he has no doubts the fight will happen. However, De La Hoya wasn’t willing to talk about the recent flat fee offer of $10 million that was made to Golovkin for the fight. De La Hoya said that he won’t discuss the negotiations on camera to the media, and that the negotiations would take place behind closed doors.
It was De La Hoya that was the one who told the media about the eight-figure offer made to Golovkin for the Canelo fight last month after Canelo’s 9th round knockout win over WBO junior middleweight champion Liam Smith on September 17. De La Hoya obviously had his reasons for telling boxing fans about the offer made to Golovkin at the time.