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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - If you’re waiting for Daniel Geale to join the masses genuflecting at the rampaging feet of IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin these days, here’s a time-saving tip.
Don’t hold your breath. It’s just not happening.
But not because the laid-back, soft-spoken Australian is disrespectful of the unbeaten, dual-belted opponent he’ll encounter this Saturday night in the big room at Madison Square Garden. Instead, it’s simply because he believes that much in his own abilities.
“Yeah. I believe so,” he told me during a recent phone chat, when I asked directly if he was the best 160-pounder in the world. But he wasn’t content in simply saying it. In fact, he said, he’s itching for the chance to get to New York to demonstrate it to the rest of a predominantly doubtful world.
“I want to prove that as well. I've been saying back home in Australia that I want to fight the best fighters in the world, and at the moment Golovkin is regarded as the best middleweight in the world. That's the reason I'm fighting him.” [Click Here To Read More]
Don’t hold your breath. It’s just not happening.
But not because the laid-back, soft-spoken Australian is disrespectful of the unbeaten, dual-belted opponent he’ll encounter this Saturday night in the big room at Madison Square Garden. Instead, it’s simply because he believes that much in his own abilities.
“Yeah. I believe so,” he told me during a recent phone chat, when I asked directly if he was the best 160-pounder in the world. But he wasn’t content in simply saying it. In fact, he said, he’s itching for the chance to get to New York to demonstrate it to the rest of a predominantly doubtful world.
“I want to prove that as well. I've been saying back home in Australia that I want to fight the best fighters in the world, and at the moment Golovkin is regarded as the best middleweight in the world. That's the reason I'm fighting him.” [Click Here To Read More]
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