Oscar De La Hoya likes Saul Canelo Alvarez’s chances of handling Gennady “GGG” Golovkin’s power to go on and defeat him this weekend in the battle between the 2 best fighters in the 160 pound division.
WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs) has been trying his best to intimidate and taunt his opponent Willie Monroe Jr. (21-2, 6 KOs) to get an extra edge against him in their fight this Saturday at the Copper Box Arena in London, England.
Middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) bristled at a question by a slightly clueless reporter on Wednesday when asked how he feels being the underdog against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) for their fight on Saturday night.
IBF mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev (25-1, 13 KOs) says he’s going to knockout IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) in their fight next month on October 28 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
Former middleweight champion Danny Jacobs (32-2, 29 KOs) is picking Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) to defeat the highly popular Mexican PPV attraction Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) this Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jacobs says Golovkin’s size, power and his experience in the 160 lb. division will be the telling factors in him beating Canelo.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is sounding out of this world confident going into his fight this Saturday night against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. Canelo has increased his trash talking by another level, as he’s now saying he would have knocked out all the same guys that Golovkin did during his career. Canelo seems to be trying to suggest that he’s the same knockout puncher that Golovkin is.
HBO’s Max Kellerman doubts that Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KOs) will ever be the same fighter again after his 4th round knockout loss to WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (44-4-1, 40 KOs) last Saturday night in their rematch at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Kellerman’s thoughts were echoed by HBO commentator Jim Lampley, who also doesn’t Gonzalez being able to come back and be the same fighter he was before.
WBC super flyweight champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (43-4-1, 39 KOs) was too powerful for former 4 division world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KOs) in stopping him in the 4th round in a crushing 2 knockdown victory at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Gonzalez was knocked down hard in the 4th round from a left to the head. Moments later, Rungvisai finished the badly hurt 30-year-old Gonzalez with a right to the head that put him down flat on his back. The fight was immediately halted at that point by the referee, and the medical team was called in the treat Gonzalez. The official time of the stoppage was at 1:18 of round 4.
WBO World super flyweight champion Naoya Inoue (14-0, 12 KOs) put on a body punching clinic in stopping #7 Antonio Nieves (17-2-2, 9 KOs) in a 6th round on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
The fight was halted by Nieves’ corner after round 6. He had taken too much punishment. Inoue, 24, dropped Nieves with a hard body shot in round 5. He continued to nail Nieves with body shots for the remainder of the round.
Former flyweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada (36-3, 25 KOs) edged former 115 lb. champion Carlos Cuadras (36-2-1, 27 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday night to become the WBC mandatory challenger to champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
WBO cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (12-0, 10 KOs) weighed in at 199 pounds for his title defense against former WBO champion Marco Huck (40-4-1, 27 KOs) on Friday for their fight this Saturday night in the quarterfinals of the World Boxing Super Series at the Max-Schmeling-Halle, in Berlin, Germany.
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (43-4-1 39 KOs))and Roman Gonzalez (46-1 38 KOs) both weighed in successfully for their rematch this Saturday night in the SuperFly card on HBO Championship Boxing at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The televised portion of the SuperFly card on HBO has a start time at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT.
In an off performance, a very lackadaisical looking 20-year-old David Benavidez (19-0, 17 KOs) became the youngest fighter to ever win a super middleweight title in defeating Ronald Gavril (18-2, 14 KOs) by a 12 round split decision to win the vacant WBC 168 lb. title on Friday night on Showtime Boxing from the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
