Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
Abel Sanchez, trainer of IBF, IBO, WBC, WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs), is not holding his breath on a finalized deal to face Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) in September. Canelo is scheduled to come back to the ring on May 6th, when he faces countryman Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
According to Frank Warren, promoter of WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs), they have NOT "moved on" from a unification with Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs), holder of the IBF, IBO, WBC, WBA titles.
K2 Promotions head Tom Loeffler, who promotes IBF, WBC, WBA, IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs), is not ruling out the possibility of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (50-2-1, 32 KOs) scoring an upset win over Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs).
K2 Promotions head Tom Loeffler, who promotes IBF, IBO, WBC, WBA middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkon (37-0, 33 KOs), is hoping that his boxer's last performance will inspire Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) to finalize a deal for a September fight.
By Andreas Hale - They’re doing it again. Not too long after Gennady Golovkin’s hard-fought unanimous decision victory over Danny Jacobs, Oscar De La Hoya rescinded his “verbal agreement” for a Canelo-GGG fight in order to “make it fair” in light of Golovkin’s relatively low pay per view numbers (150k)....
Promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, who handle IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs), says Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (48-1-1, 34 KOs) would make more money by staging a fight with GGG than with anyone else. He feels Canelo would make even more than he gained back in 2013, in his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. - which generated 2.2 million pay-per-view buys.
Count Bob Arum among those that think Gennady Golovkin began showing his age against Daniel Jacobs. The 85-year-old Arum was in full promotional mode Friday, when during a conference call Arum claimed that Gilberto Ramirez would “destroy” Golovkin if they fought. Arum’s company, Top Rank Inc., promotes Ramirez and has been trying since last year to generate interest in a Golovkin-Ramirez super middleweight match as a Plan B for Golovkin if Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez won’t fight him.
It could just be a negotiating tactic, but Billy Joe Saunders sent out a Tweet on Friday that states he’s “moving on” from a much-discussed fight against Gennady Golovkin on June 10 in Golovkin’s native Kazakhstan. Saunders, the WBO middleweight champion, attached to the Tweet a direct-message exchange he had with Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter, on March 13. In the message, Loeffler informed Saunders that he was busy with events leading up to the Golovkin-Jacobs fight March 18 at Madison Square Garden, but that he would send a contract to Frank Warren, Saunders’ promoter, sometime that week for their June 10 fight in Golovkin’s homeland.
A few days ago, trainer Virgil Hunter revealed that his star fighter - IBF, WBA, WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) - was still capable of getting down to the super middleweight limit of 168. Ward officially moved up to the light heavyweight limit of 175 in early 2016, but hasn't been down to 168 since November of 2013. Since then he's weighed between 171 to 175.
Tom Loeffler Video Interview - K2 Promotions head Tom Loeffler, who handles IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) has not faced any resistance with finalizing a possible June unification with WBO champion Billy Joe Saunders in Kazakhstan.