Abel Sanchez: record, next fight and profile →
Abel Sanchez, trainer for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin, explained why they were willing to face Carl Froch at the super middleweight limit of 168-pounds, but not Andre Ward (29-0, 15KOs).
As BoxingScene.com reported a few days ago, IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-0, 25KOs) made it clear that he is dead serious about fighting IBO/WBA/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs).
Abel Sanchez, trainer for Sullivan Barrera, says Andre Ward (29-0, 15KOs) is in no way ready for a showdown with WBO/WBA/IBF light heavyweight king Sergey Kovalev (29-0-1, 26KOs).
A few days ago, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26KOs) threw down a challenge to Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin. He dared the IBO/WBA/IBF middleweight champion to move up in weight, to 168-pounds, to fight Andre Ward.
Unbeaten heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera (17-0, 12 KOs) is confident of upsetting one of the best fighters in the world, Andre Ward (28-0, 15 KOs), when they face each other later tonight.
Abel Sanchez, trainer for WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs), is not worried that his fighter will not be able to secure a fall clash with WBC middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs).
Eddy Reynoso, who trains WBC middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, was not happy when he lost out on the Trainer for The Year Award (from the Boxing Writers Association of America).
BoxingScene.com was recently in Big Bear, California where world class trainer Abel Sanchez trains his growing stable of fighters. Sanchez's pupil Sullivan Barrera (17-0) will face former two-time super middleweight champion Andre Ward (28-0) Saturday night in a HBO televised main event.
Abel Sanchez, trainer of such fighters as Gennady Golovkin, Sullivan Barrera and others, does not see Teddy Atlas as being a big difference maker in the upcoming trilogy bout between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley.
Abel Sanchez, head trainer for WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs), believes Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26KOs) is fixated with his fighter.