By Victor Salazar
New York - Amidst the snowstorm which landed in New York on Wednesday, there is another storm brewing for Saturday night when the two consensus best middleweights meet inside the ring in New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Gennady Golovkin (36-0, 33 KO’s) will defend his WBA, WBC, IBF, and IBO middleweight titles against Brooklyn’s Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29 KO’s) in the main event of an HBO Pay-Per-View card.
Jacobs riding a twelve fight win streak and won all of those contests by knockout.
The man behind Golovkin's master plan is head trainer Abel Sanchez, and feels their training camp went just as planned.
“He comes to camp 10 pounds over his weight so it's not a fat farm,” Sanchez told BoxingScene.com. “He comes in like the professional that he is so we focus on boxing and less on losing the weight. We don't do anything different because to change something that's working, makes no sense.”
Sanchez expects Jacobs to come out fast and if he does, it will be a fire fight that he sees Golovkin winning by knockout.
“I expect Danny to come out fast because that's what everyone says, you have to catch Gennady early and that he's a slow starter,” explained the trainer." But if Danny comes out that way, I think it’s going to be explosive and if someone lands a big shot early - I think it’s going to make for good drama. I just think Gennady is the better of the two, skills and punching power.”
However if Jacobs comes out and tries to box, Sanchez says Golovkin will break him down over time.
“I think it all depends on Danny. If he comes out hard - it’ll be a street fight. If Danny comes out cautious - I think Gennady will have time to figure him out and methodically beat him down and catch him with a body shot and stop him.”