By Allan Fox: Max Kellerman of HBO suspects that former 2 division world champion Andre ‘SOG’ Ward will soon be coming out of retirement to resume his boxing career. Ward, 33, recently retired from the sport after beating Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev by an 8th round knockout in their rematch on HBO pay-per-view on June 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Jeff Aranow: In a sign that we could be seeing British heavyweight Anthony Joshua soon signing a contract with HBO to have his fights televised in the U.S., Max Kellerman is saying that he sees the 28-year-old IBF/WBA heavyweight champion as the biggest star in boxing today and he believes it’s going to be something when he becomes a star in the States.
By Allan Fox: In the view of many boxing fans, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin did a great job of shutting down the counter punching of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last Saturday night in fighting to an oddly scored 12 round draw at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Allan Fox: Max Kellerman of HBO gave scored last night’s fight between middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) in favor of Golovkin by a close decision in their fight on HBO PPV at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Allan Fox: HBO’s Max Kellerman doubts that Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KOs) will ever be the same fighter again after his 4th round knockout loss to WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (44-4-1, 40 KOs) last Saturday night in their rematch at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
By Jim Dower: Floyd Mayweather Jr. looked his all-time worst last Saturday night in laboring to an unimpressive 10th round knockout win over UFC fighter Conor McGregor in their highly hyped mega-fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. is planning on making it an offensive fight against Conor McGregor on August 26. Mayweather says he owes it to the boxing fans to pay them back for his fight against Manny Pacquiao in 2015, which the fans weren’t pleased with. The fans were upset at both fighters for their lack of aggression.
By Jim Lampley: Jim Lampley and Max Kellerman chimed in with their thoughts this week on the May 6th fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs), as well as the situation with middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) waiting on the sidelines hoping to get a fight with the redheaded Mexican star if he wins.
By Chris Williams: Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) squeaked by his WBA mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs by a close and highly questionable 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night. The fight results have been questioned by massive amounts of boxing fans who thought Jacobs should have had his hand raised at the end of the fight. HBO commentator Max Kellerman thought it was a very close fight that was decided by Golovkin winning the 12th round. However, 2 of the 3 judges gave Jacobs the 12th round.
By Eric Baldwin: Max Kellerman believes that Golden Boy Promotions is looking to milk pay-per-view money by putting their fighter WBO junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) in winnable fights against soft opposition rather than putting him in with unbeaten IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (36-0, 33 KOs) in a fight that they feel he could lose.
Kellerman expects Golden Boy to put Canelo in with another pay-per-view milking fight next year in May 2017 on Cinco de Mayo rather than matching Canelo tough. Kellerman notes that a lot of boxing fans will be willing to pay to see Canelo fight in this PPV milking fights due to a future fight between him and Golovkin being right over the horizon.