Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
TOM LOEFFLER said he was “surprised” to hear of HBO’s decision to withdraw from boxing. Loeffler, who has promoted Gennady Golovkin and the super-flyweight series on the network, hopes to have a new home for his middleweight and little stars by the end of the year.
The World Boxing Council's annual convention is just getting started in Kiev, Ukraine. Every year, countless names from boxing's past and present are united at the WBC's week filled festivities. During the last few days, several fighters have been praising WBC, WBA middleweight world champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez for last month's victory over undefeated Gennady Golovkin.
The president of the World Boxing Council, Mauricio Sulaiman, has revealed at the ongoing WBC convention in Kiev, that middleweight world champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) will be allowed to make a voluntary defense if he returns to the ring in December. Canelo is looking at the possibility of fighting on December 15th.
With HBO Sports confirming that beginning in 2019 that they will no longer be televising boxing, marquee fighters like Gennady Golovkin - who was a staple of the network the past several years - are now in essence, television/platform free agents.
Now that HBO has announced it is moving away from broadcasting boxing, two of the sport’s biggest stars are TV free agents. Promoters for middleweight rivals Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin can begin negotiating new rights deals for at least their respective next fights. Both of their contracts with HBO ended following their middleweight championship rematch September 15 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Veteran trainer Abel Sanchez is used to winning his big fights. But that hasn't been the case in 2018. Sanchez's two biggest names, who were both undefeated, have suffered tough losses in the second half of the year. Back in July in Russia, Murat Gassiev was dominated over twelve rounds by Olekrandr Usyk in a WBC, WBO, IBF, WBA cruiserweight unification. And then two weeks in Las Vegas, Gennady Golovkin lost a twelve round majority decision to Canelo Alvarez in their rematch for the WBA, WBC, IBO middleweight titles.
Abel Sanchez, the trainer for former middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, does not have a high opinion of HBO broadcast analyst Max Kellerman. Two weeks go, Canelo Alvarez won a twelve round majority decision over Golovkin to capture the WBC, WBA middleweight titles at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Abel Sanchez, the trainer of middleweight Gennady Golovkin, rejects the claims that his boxer faded in the second half of the rematch with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. On September 15, in very competitive fight, Canelo won a twelve round majority decision over Golovkin to capture the WBC, WBA middleweight titles.
Tom Loeffler met with former middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin on Tuesday afternoon to discuss his future. On September 15th, Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KOs) lost his WBA, IBO, WBC middleweight titles via a twelve round majority decision to Mexican star Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.
It has been 10 days since the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight and people continue talking about the fight and the decision. Whether it is on message boards on sites dedicated to boxing or talk amongst casual fans, the fight has brought out wannabe or amateur judges who believe they know how to score any fight. Boy, have they come out of nowhere after the decision was announced that night before a crowd of over 19,000 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.