Abel Sanchez: record, next fight and profile →
Trainer Abel Sanchez, who trains middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin among several other talents, believes WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford (27-0, 19 KOs) is not ready for the welterweight ranks just yet - but he is ready for a fight with Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs), who is probably the smallest of the elite boxers in that division.
In the last few weeks, middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. (19-1, 14KOs) - and his famous father who carries the same name, Chris 'English' Eubank - have been aggressively discussing the possibility of a fight with WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs).
Gennady Golovkin ventured into pay-per-view waters this past weekend, scoring an eight round stoppage of David Lemieux to unify the IBF/WBA/IBO middleweight titles at New York's Madison Square Garden. Golovkin and his team have now turned their focus to the WBC portion of the middleweight championship.
Abel Sanchez, trainer for IBO/WBA/IBF middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs), is not concerned with the recent comments that were made by Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (45-1-1, 32KOs). Golovkin, who also holds the WBC's interim-middleweight title, is the mandatory challenger to full champion Miguel Cotto. On November 21 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Canelo will challenge Cotto for his WBC title - with the contest taking place at a catch-weight of 155-pounds.
IBO/IBF/WBA middleweight world champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin delivered a different type of performance this past weekend which still generated the same result. Golovkin utilized a power jab and kept Lemiuex at a distance, eventually forcing him to take a knee in the 5th and getting the stoppage in the 8th of their unification bout before a sold out crowd of over 20,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Abel Sanchez, the trainer for WBO/IBF/WBA middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs), is hoping to have his fighter back in action as early as February. Golovkin was in the ring this past Saturday night, when he stopped David Lemieux in eight rounds to unify the three middleweight belts at New York's Madison Square Garden. Promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions is looking to have his boxer as busy as possible in 2016. Golovkin has been averaging three to four fights per year since his HBO debut.
Abel Sanchez, the trainer of IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, is picking IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (28-0-1, 25 KOs) to beat Andre Ward (28-0, 15 KOs) in 2016. Ward, who for a long time was pushing to face Golovkin, is moving up to light heavyweight for an inevitable fight with Kovalev at the end of next year. Ward recently signed a three fight deal with HBO that includes a showdown with Kovalev on pay-per-view.
Abel Sanchez, trainer for IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs), was not surprised with his boxer's one-sided domination of former IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-3, 31KOs) on Saturday night at New York's Madison Square Garden. Golovkin controlled the fight from the first round, with a sharp, hard jab. That jab kept Lemieux from doing much of anything. Golovkin used that punch as a tool to set up his power shots and finally got the TKO win in the eight round.
New York City - Abel Sanchez, the trainer for WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs), predicted a knockout victory in four rounds when his fighter takes on IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31KOs) later tonight at Madison Square Garden. The Canadian boxer is a big underdog and the entire HBO Pay-Per-View event, for the most part, has been built around the pound-for-pound rise of Golovkin.
New York City - Trainer Abel Sanchez is not overlooking IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31KOs). Later tonight, Sanchez's star fighter, Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 31KOs), will stake his WBA/IBO middleweight titles against Lemieux in a unification showdown from a sold-out Madison Square Garden. Their fight will headline a four-bout HBO Pay-Per-View event.