By Radio Rahim
London, UK - Back when Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) retired in September of 2015, there were plenty of fans who were asking him to face IBF, WBA, WBC, IBO middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs).
Golovkin was very willing to get on board with that fight, and even offered to squeeze down to the junior middleweight limit of 154 or even 154.5-pounds in order to stake his middleweight belts. Mayweather has already captured titles at 130, 135, 140, 147 and 154.
Mayweather fought three times at 154-pounds and captured two world titles at the weight, but he never weighed any higher than 151-pounds for any of those pounds - even on the night of the fight.
Mayweather credits Golovkin with being a good fighter, but he's not overly impressed with him after watching the middleweight have some issues last September with Kell Brook, who moved up two weight divisions to take the fight.
“I seen Kell Brook fight Triple G and you guys was crazy about Triple G, talking – ‘Oh, Triple G was such an unbelievable fighter.’ He’s okay, I mean, straight up and down no special effects. I mean, even at the age of 40, but I’m not looking forward to fighting Triple G but…that’d be easy,” Mayweather told members of the media in the UK.
When he was directly asked if he would school Golovkin in a potential fight, Mayweather replied:
“Oh, of course, you know that. What’s understood ain’t really got to be talked about," Mayweather said.
But, Mayweather threw water on the possibility of ever heading up to the middleweight limit of 160 to face Golovkin or another other opponent in the division.
“I can’t, I can’t, I can’t go up to middleweight, I never was a 154 pounder and like I said before, when the history books is written, you know, when you look at the records, hate it or love it, they will say Floyd Mayweather was a winner," Mayweather said.
