Golovkin's Trainer Confident All at 154/160 Get KO'd

By Edward Chaykovsky

Abel Sanchez, trainer of WBA/IBO/WBC interim-middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28KOs), is still very confident that nobody in the junior middleweight or middleweight ranks is capable of going the full twelve round distance with his boxer. Golovkin has stopped his last eighteen opponents - including usually durable boxers like Daniel Geale, Marco Antonio Rubio, Curtis Stevens and Gabe Rosado. 

"I said a long time ago that there was nobody at 154 or 160 that could go twelve rounds with him and I stand by that now. There is nobody at 160 that will go twelve rounds with him. We may have the bigger challenges at 168 in the future, there’s Froch, there’s Chavez, there’s Ward up at that level weight wise. Right now he’s cruising along with the 160’s and no one is giving him any problems," Sanchez told On The Ropes Boxing Radio .

Golovkin faces dangerous challenger Martin Murray, who has never been stopped, next month in Monaco. Does that mean Murray will also go down before twelve?

"Before the fight, to me they’re all twelve round fights. He went twelve rounds with Sergio Martinez, so I have to assume that this guy is a legitimate threat. He’s got a good record, his only loss is against Sergio Martinez, so I have to assume that this guy is gonna pose a threat. We’re gonna train for twelve round, we’re gonna train like this is the toughest guy we’ve ever fought and if he dispatches him quickly, then I think it says something about Golovkin and not so much about the rest of the guys," Sanchez said.