Abel Sanchez: record, next fight and profile →
LAS VEGAS – Gennady Golovkin’s 2017 calendar could include two intriguing fights the Kazakh knockout artist and most boxing fans want. Even if Golovkin-Danny Jacobs and/or Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez don’t happen next year, Golovkin’s handlers plan for him to fight four times during those 12 months.
LAS VEGAS – To be clear, Abel Sanchez is much more concerned with Gennady Golovkin’s future opponents. Golovkin’s trainer hopes a much-discussed Golokvin-Danny Jacobs middleweight championship clash takes place sometime in March and leads Golovkin to a pay-per-view showdown with Canelo Alvarez in September.
Undefeated puncher Murat Gassiev says his training camp was top notch for his world title shot on Saturday night at the Khodynka Ice Palace in Moscow. Gassiev will finally get his mandatory crack at IBF/WBA cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev. Gassiev is advised by Al Haymon and fights under the Premier Boxing Champions banner. Lebedev's promoter is the leading man in Russia, Andrey Ryabinsky, of World of Boxing.
World class trainer Abel Sanchez is very familiar with unbeaten former super middleweight champion Andre Ward (30-0, 15KOs). The Oakland native faces WBA/WBO/IBF light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0-1, 26KOs) Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas strip in a fight distributed by HBO pay-per-view.
Many observers feel that the super fight between WBA/IBF/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0-1) and former super middleweight champion Andre Ward is close to a 50-50 fight.
WBA/IBF/IBO/WBC middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) is motivated to achieve two accomplishments before moving to 168-pounds. According to his trainer Abel Sanchez, Golovkin wants to unify the entire division by capturing the WBO middleweight crown - and he also wants to break the 20 defense record of Bernard Hopkins.
Abel Sanchez, trainer of WBA/IBF/IBO/WBC middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs), created a big reaction from the fans when he recently stated that his fighter was capable of beating Sergey Kovalev, Andre Ward and Adonis Stevenson - who are two weight divisions above Golovkin.
Abel Sanchez, the trainer for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs), is not convinced that mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29KOs) will be their next opponent. The fight was targeted for December 10th in New York City. Because they were unable to reach an agreement in time, the fight was pushed back to the first quarter of 2017.
In the early part of his boxing career, Sergey Kovalev (30-0-1, 26KOs) was trained by Abel Sanchez. The relationship didn't last too long. They eventually parted ways after a little more than a year. Kovalev would go on to hire John David Jackson as his new trainer.
In the past, Abel Sanchez has stated in dozens of interviews that middleweight king Gennady Golovkin would only come down to the junior middleweight limit for a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. - who held the WBC/WBA world titles at the weight. Sanchez and Golovkin refused to fight Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez at anything lower than the middleweight limit of 160...