Comments Thread For: Sanchez: Golovkin Aims To Unify, Break Hopkins Defense Record

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

WBA/IBF/IBO/WBC middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs) is motivated to achieve two accomplishments before moving to 168-pounds. According to his trainer Abel Sanchez, Golovkin wants to unify the entire division by capturing the WBO middleweight crown - and he also wants to break the 20 defense record of Bernard Hopkins.
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[Eastlos]

Jermaine Taylor was the last unified champion @ middleweight not Hopkins get your facts right Abel.

[Raimondo]

Jermaine Taylor was the last unified champion @ middleweight not Hopkins get your facts right Abel.

Yup, when he beat Hopkins in 2005.

[Nomadic]

Yep, it's official. He is not changing weight classes at all in this career of boxing. It went from belts, to defenses, and something else will emerge after that.

[KingHippo]

That's a legit goal and he has every right to pursue it.

Just hope I'll get to see him fight somebody good before he retires.

[Corap]

Jermaine Taylor was the last unified champion @ middleweight not Hopkins get your facts right Abel.

Jermain did get stripped of the IBF title right after the fight because he gave B-hop a rematch and the IBF title wasnt on the line for the rematch. B-hop was the last defending unified middleweight champion, but it is true that Jermain won all the titles but never defended them.

[sirron000]

Someone tell Abel, no one cared when Hopkins set the record and no one will care if GGG breaks it. Hopkins only had 2 names on his run (DLH and Trinidad), GGG has none!!!

[sirron000]

Jermain did get stripped of the IBF title right after the fight because he gave B-hop a rematch and the IBF title wasnt on the line for the rematch. B-hop was the last defending unified middleweight champion, but it is true that Jermain won all the titles but never defended them.

So you said ALL that just to say, Taylor was the LAST unified MW champ???

[DoktorSleepless]

Well, he only has 7. He's got 14 more to go.

[Sadiqkingofko]

he only has 11 defenses though, WBA (Regular) doesn't count