Gonzalez-Viloria News

Golovkin vs. Lemieux re-airs Saturday night on HBO @ 9:30PM ET

10/23/2015 by Boxing News

Boxing: Golovkin vs Lemieux By Allan Fox: Tomorrow night, HBO will be televising the replay of the interesting if not exciting middleweight fight between WBA middleweight champ Gennady Golovkin and IBF champ David Lemieux, as well as the flyweight contest between WBC champion Roman Gonzalez and Brian Viloria.

The telecast starts @ 9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT. The replay will come before the HBO Championship Boxing fight between WBO 140lb champion Terence Crawford and Dierry Jean from the Centurylink Arena in Omaha, Nebraska.

Golovkin deserves No.1 P4P, not Roman Gonzalez

10/18/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin showed fully last Saturday night that there is a huge difference in talent between him and WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez. The two of them fought on the same card in front of a packed Madison Square Garden in New York.

While Golovkin boxed beautifully in pounding out an impressive 8th round knockout win over IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux in the feature bout on the card, Gonzalez had to struggle to defeat #2 WBC challenger Brian Viloria by a 9th round knockout in the co-feature bout. Gonzalez was hit often, and hurt in the 9th round from a body shot by Viloria.

Purses: Golovkin $2M, Lemieux $1.5M, Gonzalez $250K, Viloria $100K

10/16/2015 by Boxing News

By Tim Fletcher: IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) will be getting the lion’s share of the money this Saturday night for his fight against IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs).

Golovkin’s purse for this Saturday will be a career high of $2 million. Lemieux, 26, isn’t that far behind in picking up $1.5 million. It’s unclear if the Canadian money he gets is included in his purse. If not, then Lemieux will likely wind up with more money than Golovkin for their fight on HBO pay-per-view at Madison Square Garden.

Viloria: I’m ready to take Roman’s title

10/15/2015 by Boxing News

By Tim Fletcher: #2 WBC Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KOs) is ready to face WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KOs) on Saturday night, and he feels confident that he’ll take his titles from him in their fight on HBO PPV from Madison Square Garden in New York.

Viloria, 34, is a considerable underdog in this fight, so he’s going to need to raise his game considerably for him to take Gonzalez’s titles from him. Viloria has a small 4-fight winning streak since his loss to Juan Francisco Estrada in 2013, but that probably won’t help him in this case because he’s way over his head. Viloria’s last four fights were against weak opposition, and that’s enabled him to keep winning.

Roman Gonzalez vs. Brian Viloria: Will Chocolatito make us forget the shoulder roll?

10/15/2015 by Boxing News

By Gerardo Granados: It is possible that the reader hasn’t seen him fight yet, maybe some pay little interest to fighters who campaign below the welterweight division, perhaps the lower weight divisions aren’t in the spotlight as they should be and the CEO´s of the TV Networks know very little about what true fight fans like.

I think that we can agree that once you see how a talented boxer performs inside the ring you´ll know his real potential based on his boxing skills and not just on his magnetic personality; in Chocolatito´s case he is an intriguing character who at the same time will give blessing to the Lord God and also to his opponent but will not hesitate to destroy him.

Roman Gonzalez – Brian Viloria start time, where to watch

10/12/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: Boxing fans can tune-in this Saturday night to watch WBC flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KOs) defend his WBC 112lb title against #1 WBO, #2 WBC Brian “The Hawaiian Punch” Viloria (36-4, 22 KOs) on HBO pay-per-view in the co-feature bout on the Gennady “GGG” Golovkin vs. David Lemieux fight card at Madison Square Garden in New York.

What time does Gonzalez vs. Viloria start? This Saturday, on October 17th at 9:00 p.m. ET/ 6:00 p.m. PT.

Rigondeaux about to be stripped of WBO of title

10/07/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBO super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs) is on the verge of being stripped of his WBO 122lb title by the World Boxing Organization for failing to defend his title in more than nine months since his last title defense against Japan’s Hisashi Amagasa on December 31st 2014.

Rigondeaux has 10 days to explain to the WBO why he hasn’t defended his title during the last nine months. Given the WBO’s past history in dealing with fighters that fail to defend their WBO titles in a timely fashion, Rigondeaux will likely be stripped of his title in the next 10 days unless he can come up with a really good explanation.

Gennady Golovkin and Brian Viloria quotes

10/07/2015 by Boxing News

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 7, 2015) Boxing Superstar and WBA, IBO and WBC “Interim” Middleweight Champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, (33-0, 30KOs), Four-Time World Champion in two weight divisions, Brian “The Hawaiian Punch” Viloria, (36-4 (22KOs) and top junior welterweight prospect Ruslan Madiyev, 5-1-0 (3KOs) held media workouts for a huge gathering of local press on Tuesday afternoon at the Wild Card West Boxing Gym in Santa Monica, California.

Golovkin, (33-0, 30KOs), will battle IBF Middleweight World Champion David Lemieux, (34-2, 31KOs) in a Middleweight World Championship Title Unification bout on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the “Mecca of Boxing” Madison Square Garden and LIVE on HBO Pay-Per-View. Golovkin has knocked out an astounding 20 opponents in a row and will be making his 15th world championship defense. His 91% knockout percentage is the highest in the history of the middleweight division.

Viloria: Roman Gonzalez hasn’t fought anyone with my power

09/29/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KOs) has been busy studying the past fights of WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KOs) in preparation for their October 17th fight on HBO pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden in New York.

Viloria, 34, has seen enough of the 28-year-old Gonzalez’s past fights to make him believe that he’s got enough in the tank to defeat him. Viloria believes that his punching power is greater than anything that Gonzalez has ever seen before.

Artur Beterbiev vs. Sullivan Barrera purse bid on 10/5

09/24/2015 by Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: A purse bid has been scheduled for October 5th next month for the IBF 175lb eliminator bout between unbeaten two time Russian Olympian #2 IBF Artur Beterbiev (9-0, 9 KOs) and Cuban #8 IBF Sullivan Barrera (16-0, 11 KOs) at the IBF’s office in Springfield, New Jersey.

The winner of the Beterbiev-Barrera fight will become the IBF mandatory challenger to IBF champion Sergey Kovalev. Beterbiev could have had the fight with Kovalev already for November 28th in Moscow, Russia, but he can make more money if he becomes the IBF mandatory challenger, which will enable him to get a larger purse split of the revenue for the fight.