By Luke Furman

IBF middleweight champion David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) is a big underdog in his upcoming fight against Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs), who holds the WBA/IBO titles at 160-pounds.

Their unification will happen on October 17th on HBO Pay-Per-View from New York's Madison Square Garden.

More than 15,000 tickets were sold for the fight and the venue could very well be sold out by the time the two fighters step in the ring.

Lemieux is being motivated by the mounting predictions of an early knockout victory in favor of Golovkin, who stopped his last 20 opponents and most of them in the first six rounds. Lemieux is listed by some oddsmakers as a high as a 14-1 underdog.

"I have a lot of things that I'm going to show the world on October 17th. I'm going to shock the boxing world. They think this fight will be one-sided. But that will not be the case, I can assure you. I can not wait to put in my performance and open the eyes of everyone. I'm not going in there to box against Golovkin. I'm going in there to fight," Lemieux said.

Luke Furman covers boxing for bokser.org