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Realistic Middleweight Tournament
The Middleweight picture for 2013:
Geale(IBF) is set to fight Mundine April 30th. Sturm will fight Soliman Feb 2nd in order to become Geale's mandatory and get a rematch. Geale has mentioned both publicly on interviews and on his official twitter account that he wants to fight Golovkin in order to recover his WBA belt, so I feel that they are likely to fight at some point in 2013.
Meanwhile Golovkin will likely fight a stay busy on March 30th against Osumanu Adama. Pirog is rumored to fight March 2nd on HBO against an opponent yet to be determined. Golovkin's management have mentioned that Golovkin is expected to return on a June date against a high caliber opponent. I feel HBO might want to match him up with Pirog for that date and it is known that both fighters and their teams are open to fighting each other.
Martinez is expected to beat Murray on April 27th and take on Chavez Jr by late 2013 (possibly Nov.). I'm not so sure this fight will happen as Martinez seems undeterred in his request for Olympic drug testing. Nevertheless, it's probably his biggest money fight available so we'll have to see how that plays out.
I believe this is a possible tournament scenario that could realistically play out:
"Middleweight Tournament"
Round 1 (mid 2013)
Golovkin (IBF) v. Pirog
Geale(IBF) v. Sturm II (Geale must win)
Round 2 (mid-late 2013)
Golovkin(WBA)/Pirog v. Geale
Martinez(RING,WBC) v. Chavez Jr. II
Final Round (early 2014)
Martinez(RING,WBC)/Chavez Jr. v. Golovkin(WBA)/Pirog v. Geale(IBF)
What do you guys think? How do you think things will play out?
I have a feeling we'll have some interesting fights in the division this year; last year certainly didn't disappoint (at least the latter half).
Geale(IBF) is set to fight Mundine April 30th. Sturm will fight Soliman Feb 2nd in order to become Geale's mandatory and get a rematch. Geale has mentioned both publicly on interviews and on his official twitter account that he wants to fight Golovkin in order to recover his WBA belt, so I feel that they are likely to fight at some point in 2013.
Meanwhile Golovkin will likely fight a stay busy on March 30th against Osumanu Adama. Pirog is rumored to fight March 2nd on HBO against an opponent yet to be determined. Golovkin's management have mentioned that Golovkin is expected to return on a June date against a high caliber opponent. I feel HBO might want to match him up with Pirog for that date and it is known that both fighters and their teams are open to fighting each other.
Martinez is expected to beat Murray on April 27th and take on Chavez Jr by late 2013 (possibly Nov.). I'm not so sure this fight will happen as Martinez seems undeterred in his request for Olympic drug testing. Nevertheless, it's probably his biggest money fight available so we'll have to see how that plays out.
I believe this is a possible tournament scenario that could realistically play out:
"Middleweight Tournament"
Round 1 (mid 2013)
Golovkin (IBF) v. Pirog
Geale(IBF) v. Sturm II (Geale must win)
Round 2 (mid-late 2013)
Golovkin(WBA)/Pirog v. Geale
Martinez(RING,WBC) v. Chavez Jr. II
Final Round (early 2014)
Martinez(RING,WBC)/Chavez Jr. v. Golovkin(WBA)/Pirog v. Geale(IBF)
What do you guys think? How do you think things will play out?
I have a feeling we'll have some interesting fights in the division this year; last year certainly didn't disappoint (at least the latter half).
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