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Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya seems very willing to match Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) - if Canelo defeats WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) on November 21st at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Main Events CEO Kath Duva, who promotes IBF/WBO/WBA light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (28-0-1, 25KOs), has a very good feeling that a showdown will come off with Andre Ward (28-0, 15KOs) in late 2016. Duva says Ward and his team are in the process of finalizing an multi-fight agreement with HBO, and that deal includes a fight with Kovalev.
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.
New York City - IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31KOs) is feeling a boost of confidence after going face to face and staring into the eyes of Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs). Later tonight, Lemieux will attempt to snatch away Golovkin's WBA/IBO middleweight titles at Madison Square Garden. More than 20,000 fans will pack the house to watch the fighters trade deadly punches in the main event of an HBO Pay-Per-View card.
IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31KOs) has an all-star list of backers, with Golden Boy Promotions executives Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins giving him tips and advice for the upcoming battle with WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs). The HBO Pay-Per-View unification showdown takes place on October 17th from New York's Madison Square Garden.
WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) is less than a week away from his unification showdown with IBF champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31KOs). The fight takes place on October 17th from New York's Madison Square Garden. Both fighters will be making their debut on HBO's pay-per-view platform. In an interview conducted several months ago, Golovkin was quoted as saying that he felt "scared" as he approached this fight - because for the first time he was facing another fearsome puncher in Lemieux.
Robert Garcia, the trainer of former world champion Brandon Rios (33-2-1, 24KOs), says his fighter was in no way avoiding a potential fight with Ruslan Provodnikov (24-4, 17KOs). Since the start of the year, fans have been talking up a possible Rios-Provodnikov collision. The fight had been mentioned at one point to Garcia and Rios, but it never materialized.
Golden Boy Promotions executive Bernard Hopkins is not only expecting David Lemieux (34-2, 31KOs) to win big on October 17th - he expects him to "win big." Lemieux will stake his IBF middleweight title against WBA/IBO champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) in a three belt unification at New York's Madison Square Garden. HBO Pay-Per-View will carry the event. Golovkin is favored by the majority of the press to win, by knockout.
Two junior welterweight world champions were crowned on Saturday night. In an HBO televised main event, Viktor "Iceman" Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) captured the vacant WBC junior welterweight crown by knocking out heavily favored Lucas Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs) in the tenth round at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.