Gary O'Sullivan RULES OUT David Lemieux, REVEALS CANELO DEAL for September
Gary O’Sullivan has exclusively revealed to WBN that he's set to face superstar Canelo Alvarez in September regardless of the result in the Mexican's next fight.
Canelo is set to fight Gennady Golovkin in their highly-anticipated rematch, and win or lose on May 5th, O'Sullivan stated the encounter is on and he's backing himself to KO the Mexican.
O’Sullivan, commonly known as 'Spike', is coming off perhaps a career-best performance in knocking out Antoine Douglas through seven rounds on the undercard of the Billy Joe Saunders v David Lemieux last December.
The enigmatic Irishman had been touted for a fight on the Canelo v GGG undercard against David Lemieux, but he 33 year-old revealed that is not the case.
“I’m fighting May 4th in Vegas, I don’t even have an opponent announced, but I will have an opponent announced soon and I know it's not Lemieux and I know it's not Rosado, it’s neither of those," O'Sullivan exclusively told World Boxing News.
“I’m not sure who I’ll be fighting at the moment but Golden Boy are putting somebody in place and I’m going to fight them on the 4th May in Vegas,” he added.
If O’Sullivan is successful in the spring, his superfight with stablemate Canelo awaits in September, according to the Irishman.
Despite the deal already been agreed, O’Sullivan has his fingers crossed Canelo comes out on top against Golovkin, in order for the world titles to be a stake.
“The fight i’m looking at is Canelo after May 4th so I hope that Canelo obviously beats Golovkin. I’m going to fight him regardless but it’s much better for me if he wins.”
Discussing the first fight between Canelo and Golovkin, O'Sullivan joked: “That’s what I’m hearing (that Golovkin deserved to win) but I didn’t even watch it!
“I did see the highlights and I think it’s going to be a close fight (in the rematch but I think Canelo has a good chance but it could go either way, to be honest. Maybe Canelo might win on points this time.”
Despite Canelo’s status as one of the best pound for pound fighters on the planet, O'Sullivan is not fazed one little bit and is confident in his own power.
“I’m looking forward to it you know, I’m very excited about it for that fight I believe I'm possibly the hardest puncher in the whole division.
“if Canelo beats Golovkin I’d love the opportunity to knock him out and prove I can mix it with the best in this division,” he concluded.
I call bs.
Although I'm sure the big names often reach out to multiple names with contracts that would allow them to be among a pool of choices that may or may not get chosen. So maybe its possible is on the shortlist, but I highly doubt he's the definite Sept. opponent.
Yup and he already got busted doing the same thing last year not only saying he was fighting Rosado but he promoted an event as spike vs Rosado which was a lie. 3 weeks before the so called fight date Rosado finally blasted him on twitter saying who are you and why you lying telling folks I'm fighting you. He fooled me once not buying shyt he says. Either he's flat lying or misunderstanding someone maybe his manager telling him he's in the running for a fight is guaranteed.
I don't believe this right now. It's big news and boxing scene top headlines would have it up if it were true. Why would Canelo fight such a little known boxer? When and if I read it on boxing scene top headlines I will believe it.
Isn't this the same dude who last year said he had a done deal to fight Rosado and then created a twitter storm when he started promoting the fight on social media for almost a month. To the point Rosado came out saying I have no clue who this guy is let alone a deal to fight him. The fight of course never happened. So not getting burned by spike again. Unless canelo or golden boy says this he's full of shyt. canelo has full control and say of who he fights I doubt he even knows who he is fighting in Sept yet.