By Edward Chaykovsky
In the opinion of Floyd Mayweather Sr., father and trainer for Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26KOs), a fight with WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs) is unlikely to happen.
Mayweather created a lot of chatter by laying down a challenge to Golovkin on Thursday.
He basically dared Golovkin to fight former super middleweight king Andre Ward. If Golovkin were to beat Ward, then Mayweather would come out of retirement to fight him. Mayweather retired last September.
Floyd Sr. doubts the fight would happen, at least not at the middleweight limit of 160-pounds.
"He ain’t gonna fight no Golovkin, I can pretty much tell you that. He’s not gonna fight no guy that damn big. If he did do something like that, he wouldn’t be a wise man and he would be a fool if he did it. Not to even say that he can’t whoop Golovkin, I’m just telling you the ins and outs about it. I think more than likely the fight won’t happen," Mayweather Sr. told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
"Don’t get me wrong, he can be beaten. Golovkin can probably take Floyd’s shots better than Floyd can take his shots, but other than that, Golovkin is not a good fighter at all, I don’t care what nobody says. Golovkin is just a target, that’s all he is. I’m just saying that if it was a big Floyd against Golovkin and Floyd fought like he does now and does the things that he does now, there would be no contest, it wouldn’t even be a fight that got thought about."
Golovkin has stated in several interviews that Mayweather is the only fight where he'd be willing to move down in weight - all the way to the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds. When Mayweather retired, he held the WBA/WBC world titles at welterweight and junior middleweight.
If the showdown were to happen around Mayweather fighting weight, be it 147 or 154, Floyd Sr. believes the fight would be a one-sided beating.
"Golovkin knows it himself, if he was anywhere near Floyd’s weight, Floyd would beat the hell out of him. Right now Golovkin is a punching bag, all you have to do is take Golovkin and hang him up on chains and go to work. That’s what we would do to a guy like him," Mayweather Sr. said.
