East Side Boxing Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s 3rd round destruction of the UK’s Matthew Macklin last Saturday night has Eddie Hearn, the promoter for IBF/WBA super middleweight champion Carl Froch, highly interested in staging a fight between Froch and Golovkin in 2014. Hearn thinks he can put the fight together by mid-year in 2014 if everything goes right. There wouldn’t be a catch-weight it seems, as Hearn wants Golovkin to come up to 168 for the fight. Hearn said to Sky Sports, “Golovkin is a freak of nature; he’s a beast. According to HBO he’d be willing to step up to super middleweight and a fight with Carl Froch would be just epic. Froch, granite chin, Golovkin one of the biggest pound-for-pound punchers in the world…Froch will quite willingly step up and ideally that is a fight that could happen in the middle of 2014.” I don’t like this fight for Froch. He looked pretty mediocre last May in beating Mikkel Kessler by a 12 round decision. Had Kessler fought with a little more motivation in getting past Froch’s jab in the first four rounds, he’d have won that fight. I think Golovkin would be a nightmare for Froch. The British fighter [...] http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?i=b9wOPJCHBEg:YEE8geortEE:D7DqB2pKExk http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/eastsideboxing/egEo?d=qj6IDK7rITs More... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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