“I am going to be 40 on Friday but I feel good,” says IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs) who fights WBA middleweight champ Ryōta Murata (16-2, 13 KOs) in a long-awaited world title unification fight on Saturday night in Saitama, Japan. The DAZN telecast in the U.S. starts at 5:15AM ET, 2:15AM PT.
“I will continue fighting as long as I feel good and can train hard to fight at the level I have come to expect of myself. Living a healthy lifestyle keeps me feeling good, strong.
“Yes, I have been told by several reporters that Canelo wants to fight me again and that this time it is personal. If it is so personal, why has it taken him four years since our last fight? He pretends it is personal. I find it puzzling he would make such a claim.
“Murata is the most important fight. Period. I do not look ahead. I have been fully invested in training for the fight I have in front of me. I have too much respect for Murata and his body of work. My focus is on him and winning his title. That is why I am in Japan. I look forward to fighting in a packed arena. I have missed that energy. It is going to be exciting because we both have similar styles of fighting. We are both power punchers, we are aggressive and we come forward. Diamonds cut diamonds and on Saturday, there will be two diamonds in the ring. It will be a boxing gift to the fans I expect it to be the fight of the year.
good for ggg. murata is most important.
anyway, what weight for a canelo bout?
175lbs, maybe168lbs?? ggg is 160lbs.
dont see him moving up past 162-5. might Never happen.
Eddie Hearn, as a promoter offered Canelo two fights for 85M, one with Bivol at 175, the other with GGG at 168. I learned that Canelo wasn’t not much interested in fighting GGG for third time, but the offer from Hearn was much better financially than the one from PBC against Charlo and Benavidez, both at 168. I am very sure if Benavidez has been with Hearn, the deal should have been him and Bivol.
Not interested in Canelo vs 40 y/o GGG 3. The 3rd fight should have happened years ago. Everybody knows they are 1-1. Calling out GGG when he is 40 y/o kind of questionable.
RKG: I agree 100%. I also had it 1-1. that fight should have happened right after the 2nd fight. The only thing I dont agree on is that Canelo was calling out GGG. Canelo didnt want to fight him a 3rd time and stated that multiple times. GGG however was the one chasing him and calling him out every chance he got. Just saying.
If GGG doesn’t KO this bum in under 5 rounds, it’s truly over for him and he will get humiliated by canelo. Before anyone thumbs me down, actually watch Murata fight, he’s completely trash once he left Japan & was fighting decent (C/D ranked) opponents he was getting exposed for his absolutely awful defence. He’s really easy to hit so I’m expecting Golovkin to find that chin.
i agree with you on this Law. Murata is the weakest of the 4 champs at the 160 division. This was a weak move for GGG. He should have fought Charlo or Andrade if he wanted to keep relevant. Beating a Murata doesnt help his case AT ALL.
I’m sure GGG understands “Canelo wants to fight me again for the payday”
He picked you as the weakest and a nice payday. GGG know he is Canelo’s way out of those other tough fights, he’s running out of choices at this point.
Murata in 2! 3G’s shot.
big geriatric show