Gennady Golovkin and champion David Lemieux made weight on Friday in preparation for Saturday night’s middleweight unification showdown to take place on HBO PPV at Madison Square Garden.
Golovkin (33-0, 30 KO’s), WBA Super World and IBO World middleweight champion, weighed-in at 159.4 pounds. Meanwhile Lemieux (34-2, 31 KO’s), the IBF titleholder, was forced to denude to barely make weight at 159.8 pounds.
Golovkin, 33, promised to make it a “good fight” and declared the fans would be provided with a “big present.”
The winner of his past 20 fights by knockout, the man proclaimed as “GGG” will look to make Lemieux just another victim on Oct. 17.
However, the Montreal native Lemieux has other things planned for the Kazakh.
“David Lemieux is going to be the best David Lemieux you’ve ever seen,” Lemieux said.
If there were a more appropriate name for the entire card, “Bombs” would be decorous.
WBC flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KO’s) and Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KO’s) both weighed-in at 111.4 pounds.
Gonzalez will look to extend his knockout streak to 10 as he takes on Viloria, who lost a split decision to past Gonzalez victim, Juan Francisco Estrada in April 2013 when the WBA and WBO flyweight belts were on the line.
Now a winner of his past four fights with three coming by way of knockout, Viloria will look to be a world champion once again for the first time in three years.
Despite being stopped by Carlos Tamara in the 12th round of a close fight in 2010 for the IBF light flyweight belt, Viloria has never been down, but neither has “Chocolatito,” and the ESPN No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter will look to make a statement.
-Ryan O’Hara @OHaraSports
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