This Saturday begins the middleweight takeover in boxing. Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KO’s) will take on David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KO’s) at the Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden. The fight will be a middleweight championship unification bout as Golovkin will defend his WBC, WBA, and IBO middleweight titles against Lemieux’s IBF middleweight title.
The fight fans have considered this as part of a middleweight tournament that includes the much-anticipated showdown between Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez next month. The winners of both fights will most likely be heading for a clash to determine who the true top middleweight in the division is.
As for Saturday, fans will be in for a huge treat. This fight has the potential to be a “Fight of the Year” candidate. Gennady Golovkin comes into the fight with an astounding 91 percent knockout rate. David Lemieux is no slouch either when it comes to the knockout as he sports an 86 percent knockout rate. The stats show that this knockdown drag out fight will most likely end in a knockout.
Golovkin is coming off his 20th knockout in a row. It took him six rounds before he made Willie Monroe Jr. his latest victim. Since Golovkin has been knocking his opponents out; his fights have not lasted long. His longest match was an 11th round stoppage of Martin Murray. Murray posed as a tough threat, but no threat will be as tough as David Lemieux.
Lemieux might as well be Golovkin’s toughest opponent to date. He poses as the hardest puncher Golovkin will face, and he has proven to have a tough chin as he did against Gabriel Rosado. We will find if he has the chin to withstand the Kazak power that Golovkin possess.
Outside of the fight with Rosado at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Lemieux has only fought in Canada. Golovkin, on the other hand, has fought at the Garden three times. Two of those times have been in the theatre.
This fight looks to be a barnburner and fans will love the aggressive style that both possess. It seems that the fighter that gets that one hard punch in first will pull out as the winner. One thing for sure is that one of these fighters will be elevated as one of the top middleweights in the game.
Anthony Rivera | @AntRivera86
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