Saul “Canelo” Alvarez cannot compete with the power that Gennady “GGG” Golovkin has going for him, according to GGG’s trainer Abel Sanchez. Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) will be putting up his IBF, IBO, WBA and WBC middleweight titles against the highly popular Canelo (49-1-1, 34 KOs) in a little over 3 weeks from now on September 16 on HBO pay-per-view at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Throughout the boxing world there are many fighters that for one reason or another never achieve their full potential. This can be due to any number of reasons: a thirst for money over glory, the lack of a fighters’ mentality, or problems with mental health. Over the next few weeks I am going to invite the readers to explore the history of some of these cases of wasted talent with me, and hopefully make some helpful suggestions to the fighters and their training team as how to get them back on track and moving forward.
Super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeux will need to climb 2 divisions to fight WBO super featherweight title holder Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko (9-1, 7 KOs) at 130 if the fight is going to get made for December 9.
The fight still isn’t signed as of yet. If the fight goes get made, the two fighters will be facing each other at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Former 2 division world champion Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) has split with his longtime manager Barry McGuigan, and his company Cyclone Promotions. It’s unclear what caused the 30-year-old Northern Ireland native Frampton to sever ties with McGuigan.
Frampton lost his last fight to Leo Santa Cruz on January 28 of this year in getting beaten by a 12 round majority decision. In Frampton’s fight before that, he won a controversial 1 round majority decision over Santa Cruz on July 30 last year in New York.
IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Andre “SOG” Ward doesn’t rule out a fight in the future against IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua , who he rates as definitely beatable as anyone when the time comes for them to face each other. Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) just finished knocking out former 175 lb. champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev in the 8th round on June 17 in their rematch in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This Saturday night on August 26 at the StubHub Center, Carson, California, the newly crowned WBC super-bantam belt holder Rey Vargas will make his first defense against Ronny Rios. Last February, Rey won his title against Gavin McDowell showing good skills and ring smarts to control the fight in which he even made remember Ricardo Finito Lopez.
Unbeaten Terence “Bud” Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs) become the undisputed 140 lb. champion in defeating IBF, WBA 140 lb. champion Julius Indongo (22-1, 11 KOs) by a 3rd round knockout on Saturday night in front of a large sellout crowd at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska.
THE Philippines is still waiting for its next gold medal in the 29th Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after Sunday went past with the country sans any top hardware to show for.
Prized wushu artist Daniel Parantac and young archer Nicole Tagle had chances to claim gold medals but were not able to take advantage of the opportunities they had.
I have never been a fan of Floyd Mayweather’s, and my dislike for his villainous, vainglorious persona has, for years, fueled my desire to see him knocked out. As Muhammad Ali said early on in his career, “100% will be comin’ to see me, but 99% will be comin’ to see me get beat.” So, I am the sucker that the Mayweather character provoked; I was who he got rich off of. But for all of my ire and animus, despite how I felt about him as a person, his competency inside the ring was unparalleled. He just so happens to be the greatest boxer of my generation, and the greatest defensive fighter of all time.
