Gennady "GGG" Golovkin vs David Lemieux, Oct 17th

This should be a very fun card full of action.

Yeah basically a difference in philosophies. Abel likes his guys to go hard in sparring, Kovalev does not. Before Kovalev got with John David Jackson, he did some work with Abel and Golovkin. Abel would have them spar against each other a couple times, Golovkin goes fairly hard during sparring and he was roughing Kovalev up and knocked him down with a body shot. Kovalev didn't like that and in his words "why should we beat each other up for free?" and also said the way that Gennady fights, the only way to really fight him is to get into a war, and he wasn't down for getting into a war with Golovkin for free. So Abel and him haven't been on friendly terms since, whether it was Abel who kicked him out or Kovalev who chose to leave who knows, they both have their own side of the story on that, but Kovalev and Golovkin are friends.

So basically difference in philosophies. It seems Golovkin was just doing what he always does in the gym which is a few notches higher than what Kovalev is used to and willing to do. Kovalev saves that stuff for the actual fight.

I agree. I think Golovkin will box and play it safe for the first rounds, similar to the first half of the Stevens fight, and first couple rounds of the Monroe fight, then he'll start to turn it up round 5 and on.

Lemieux is not as good as a fighter as Golovkin, but his power is legit so his best chance is to land something big in those first four rounds when GGG is taking it slow, it's crucial for him to try and set his own pace and impose his will on Golovkin, otherwise he's going to start slowing down by the time GGG begins to pick up the pace.

14-1 favorite is probably too high, I think that just reflects the perspective people have right now of Golovkin. I think Lemieux does pose a bit of a threat mainly because it's been so long since Golovkin has had any real resistance in the ring.

To be fair Golden Boy didn't want this fight at all, both Oscar and Gomez were talking about two more fights and then Golovkin. K2 put a deal in place for Lemieux that was too good to refuse. That's why this fight is on PPV - HBO couldn't afford the purse in order to get Lemieux in the ring so the made a PPV where Lemieux will get a very nice guarantee and split of PPV revenue.

Depends on what the expectations are. This isn't Mayweather and Pacquiao so I'm sure their expecting around 300k and probably need to do about 100k to break even.

Anything over 500k is a huge success. The only names in boxing who have sold over 500k in recent years have involved Mayweather and Pacquiao. No one else has (although Canelo vs Cotto most certainly will but that's it).

All aboard the GGG train



“I went to university every day for five years” to study sports and economics, Golovkin told USA TODAY Sports. “I thought, ‘I must — must — go to school. Look, my hands, these are like guns. When you have guns, you can relax. But in the future, you need something else. I love and respect my sport but I am not a bad guy. First, I am a sportsman.”


“We would walk into a gym and my brothers would say, ‘OK — you, tall guy over there, maybe you want to fight this small guy?'” Golovkin said, shaking his head at the memory. “It was crazy. I’ve never been a tough guy but always there was a provocation. That was a long time ago. Today, boxing is important to me and to my family.”“Every two days, I had a street fight,” he said. “I was living a different life. I’ve never been a bad guy — never acted like a tough guy. But every time, there was a provocation. They acted like gangsters. Everybody wanted to beat me up. Maybe because I have baby face.'”



“(Mayweather) is not a real guy — I see him as being a big fake, inside and outside. Show me who you are,” Golovkin said. “I’m not like a movie star (seeking publicity) — ‘Look at my car.’ I like real people. I don’t like fakes.”

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