DeGale: When Time is Right, I Could Fight Golovkin
Mar 24, 2015 • 4:24 AM ET
By Edward Chaykovsky
Olympic gold medal winner James DeGale expects big things to come with a victory over Andre Dirrell.
DeGale and Dirrell have been ordered to face each other for the vacant IBF super middleweight title which Carl Froch vacated earlier this year. A purse bid was recently held, and it was won by Warriors Boxing, who submitted the winning bid on behalf of Dirrell's manager Al Haymon.
Traveling to America is getting DeGale excited, because it opens up the door for other potential fights - and one of them is a meeting down the line with IBO/WBA/WBC-interim middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin.
"This is my time to shine and there are some big fights potentially for me out there in America. I've got a domestic fight with George Groves which will always be there but there are some massive fights for me in America against the likes of the Dirrells, [Julio Cesar] Chavez Jr and Golovkin is possibly moving up a division in the future. Golovkin is an extremely good fighter. I'm not sure he has been built into a monster but Martin Murray showed he could get hit. When the time is right I could fight him," DeGale told reporter Nick Parkinson.
