Gennady Golovkin still eyeing possible move up to super-middleweight “if there is a big fight at 168”

Gennady Golovkin still eyeing possible move up to super-middleweight “if there is a big fight at 168”

Though he has a number of big fights to shoot for at middleweight, his current weight class, world ruler Gennady Golovkin says he is still looking at a potential move up eight pounds to the super-middleweight division. Speaking with ESPN Deportes, as quoted by RingTV.com, Triple-G says he would move up “if there is a big fight at 168.”

Fans are of course hoping, hoping, hoping that GGG will be able to get it on with Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez in his next fight; so as the two best 160 pounders out there can finally settle their differences (no-one being happy with the drawn verdict that was handed in at the conclusion of September’s big fight). But if talks stall, or maybe after the fight has taken place, GGG could make that move up.

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37 years ago today: The infamous “No Mas” fight shocked the world

37 years ago today: The infamous "No Mas" fight shocked the world

Boxing fans across the globe have asked, and will continue to ask, if Sonny Liston took a dive, or dives, in his two bouts with Ali, and to this day we have no definitive, universally accepted answer. However, there is one other fight that is still even more of a mystery so many years ater it took place. What really happened that November 25 day of 1980 when Duran and Leonard met in their New Orleans rematch?

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Tyson Fury signs with MTK

Tyson Fury signs with MTK

MTK Global are delighted to announce the signing of the Ring Magazine and lineal heavyweight champion of the world, Tyson Fury.

The ‘Gypsy King’ has inked a deal which will see MTK Global assume an advisory role as he makes his comeback in the heavyweight division.

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Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker fight “close,” Hearn says he’s hopeful for next spring

Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker fight “close,” Hearn says he's hopeful for next spring

It’s looking quite likely how rival heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker could meet next spring. As fans may be aware, WBO champ Parker and his team have pressed very hard for a unification fight with Joshua, the WBA/IBF ruler – this week holding a quite bizarre press conference where footage was shown of AJ being troubled and knocked down in fights; a “reward” offered to anyone with video evidence of Parker being decked at any time – and it seems Joshua has bitten.

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Guillermo Rigondeaux takes shot at “ducker” Carl Frampton

Guillermo Rigondeaux takes shot at “ducker” Carl Frampton

Like him and his fighting style or not, there is one thing Cuban stylist Guillermo Rigondeaux could never be referred to as, and that’s a “ducker” or a “cherry picker.” This much is clear from the very fact that the former super-bantamweight champ has agreed to move up not one but two weight divisions to challenge WBO super-featherweight ruler Vasyl Lomachenko on December 9.

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Kovalev-Shabranskyy Weights & final press conference quotes

Kovalev-Shabranskyy Weights & final press conference quotes

Weigh-In Results

Sergey Kovalev 174 vs. Vyacheslav Shabranskyy 174.8
Jason Sosa 131.2 vs. Yuriorkis Gamboa 130.6
Sullivan Barrera 174.8 vs. Felix Valera 174.2
Bakhram Murtazaliev 153.8 vs. Carlos Galvan 151.8
Frank Galarza 153 vs. Jaime Herrera 153.2
(Photo Credit: David Spagnolo/Main Events)

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