Los Angeles, CA (March 24, 2016) With the highly anticipated return to Los Angeles of Boxing Superstar and Unified Middleweight World Champion, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, set for Saturday, April 23 at the Fabulous Forum and due to the overwhelming response from fans, additional $30 tickets will be released tomorrow, Friday, March 25 at 12:00 p.m. PT. Making his sixteenth middleweight world title defense, Golovkin headlines UNDEFEATED, against undefeated mandatory challenger Dominic Wade.
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Golovkin needs an impressive performance against Wade
By Jeff Aranow: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) needs an impressive performance in his fight against challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) on April 23 to help increase interest in a summer fight against WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders, because the British are going to be watching Golovkin’s fight against Wade on BoxNation.
I know that Golovkin would like to fight WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez next, but that fight cannot happen until later this year in September possibly. Canelo has a fight on May 7 against Amir Khan, and after that fight, Canelo will want to rest and take it easy for a number of months while he heals up.
Sanchez thinks Golovkin-Wade could be short fight
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez says he doesn’t know precisely what unbeaten IBF mandatory challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) will be bringing to the table for their fight next month on April 23. However, if Wade comes to fight hard, then Sanchez believes the fight will be over by the 4th round at the latest.
Sanchez know what to expect from the 25-year-old Wade, because all he has to go on is his recent fight against 42-year-old Sam Soliman last June. Sanchez thinks Wade didn’t have the motivation in that fight as he does now with him fighting for multiple world titles against Golovkin.
Loeffler expects Golovkin-Wade to be a sellout
By Dan Ambrose: Tickets for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s next fight on April 23 are selling very fast. According to Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, over 10,000 tickets have already been purchased for Golovkin’s next fight against the unbeaten Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) at the Forum in Inglewood, California.
The Forum has a seating capacity of 17,505, and Loeffler expects the fight to be a sellout like Golovkin’s last fight against David Lemieux last October at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The Golovkin-Wade fight will be televised on HBO Championship Boxing on 4/23. Along with the Golovkin vs. Wade fights, fans will be seeing WBC flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KOs) battling it out against fringe contender McWilliams Arroyo, 16-2 (14KO’s) in the co-feature bout.
Wade: Nothing special about Golovkin
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) says he sees nothing in the game of IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) that makes him think that he’s a special fighter.
Wade, 25, agrees with what Floyd Mayweather Jr. said recently when he commented that there are no special effects with Golovkin. Mayweather says Golovkin is straight up and down and he’s convinced that he would beat him if he came back and took the fight with the 34-year-old Kazakhstan fighter. Mayweather isn’t interested in making a comeback to face Golovkin, however.
Malignaggi: Dominic Wade must be focused against Golovkin
By Dan Ambrose: Former two belt world champion Paulie Malignaggi believes that unbeaten challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) is going to need to be totally focused for the full 12 rounds of the fight next month against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in their fight on HBO Championship Boxing from the Forum, in Inglewood, California.
Malignaggi sees Golovkin’s constant pressure as something that would drive a fighter crazy to be on the receiving end of that experience for a full 12 rounds, because it forces that fighter to be focused constantly without let up. There’s nonstop danger in a fight against Golovkin because he’s always there directly in front of his opponents looking to take their heads off with each shot he throws.
Golovkin-Wade fight less than two months away
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.
GGG’s priorities: Wade, Canelo-Khan winner & Saunders, says Loeffler
By Dan Ambrose: It looks like 51-year-old Bernard Hopkins has been designated as a very low possibility for a potential future opponent for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) in 2016. According to Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler, his main focus is his April 23 fight against his IBF mandatory challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs), and then the winner of the May 7 fight between WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Amir Khan, and then WBO 160lb champion Billy Joe Saunders.
If Golovkin can get past Wade, which would seem very likely, then he’ll look to fight the Canelo-Khan winner. Loeffler says the winner of that fight will be stripped of their WBC title by the World Boxing Council if they refuse to face GGG.
50% of Golovkin-Wade tickets already sold
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.
GGG and Chocolatito Prepare for Spectacular Show on Saturday, April 23
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.