By Sean Jones: Middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) will be getting a guaranteed purse of $1 million for his voluntary defense against career junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (36-3-1, 21 KOs) tonight in their fight on HBO World Championship Boxing at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
By Jeff Aranow: Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) weighed in at 160 pounds and his opponent Vanes ‘The Nightmare’ Martirosyan (36-3-1, 21 KOs) weighed in at 159.6 lbs. for their fight this Saturday night for their “Mexican Style 2” card at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
By Allan Fox: Former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins revealed on Thursday that Gennady Golovkin’s opponent for Saturday, Vanes Martirosyan, was at one time one of his sparring partners during his career.
By Jeff Aranow: Vanes Martirosyan (36-3-1, 21 KOs) feels that he’s on the verge of shocking the world by beating undefeated middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) on Saturday night to take his IBO, WBA and WBC titles from him at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
By Dan Ambrose: Gennady Golovkin has doubts that he’ll be fighting Saul Canelo Alvarez on September 15, according to Yahoo Sports News. Golovkin gives it only a 10% chance that he’ll be fighting Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) on September 15.
By Juan Flores: Unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin met with replacement opponent Vanes Martirosyan on Wednesday afternoon for their final press conference for this Saturday’s contest on HBO at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
By Sean Jones: Trainer Abel Sanhcez says the main reason Gennady Golovkin wants to fight on the Cinco de Mayo holiday this weekend on May 5 is because he feels that he’s Mexican. Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) was supposed to be facing Mexican superstar Saul Canelo Alvarez on the May 5 fight date, but he pulled out of the fight just ahead of his April 18 meeting with the Nevada State Athletic Commission for his hearing on his 2 positive tests for clenbuterol.
By Jim Dower: Tom Loeffler says Gennady Golovkin won’t be overlooking Vanes Martirosyan for a second this Saturday night when the two of them meet on HBO World Championship Boxing at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
By Allan Fox: Gennady ‘GGG” Golovkin rates his reign as the middleweight champion much higher than former unified 160 lb. champion Bernard Hopkins (55-8-2, 32 KOs) during his 10 years as a champion.
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Abel Sanchez says the reason why Daniel Jacobs did not perform well against Maciej Sulecki last Saturday night is because of the wear and tear he took in his fight against Gennady Golovkin last year in March. Sanchez states that fighters are never the same after they fight GGG, especially when they go 12 rounds with him.