Person to Person Call to Anyone Wanting to Step Up and Face Gennady “GGG” Golovkin & Hughie Fury to Face the All Too Mysterious Nobody Knows this Weekend!

By Donald “Braveheart” Stewart

There are fighters who cause mayhem and devastation and there are fighters who define it. Increasingly we are seeing the phenomenon of a man who is bringing his fists into a continued ascendancy that is sweeping all before him. Gennady Golovkin, 35-0, 32 KO’s, at the weekend went into the ring and, in two rounds, destroyed Dominic Wade 18-1, 12 KO’s to go 22 fights won by knockout in a row.

All attention is now turned to who wins between Saul Canelo Alvarez, 46-1-1, 32 KO’s and Amir Khan 31-3, 19 KO’s. But let’s be honest, who in their right mind is sitting at home thinking, well if I get through this next fight I hope I get Golovkin!

I had this down as a decent fight between a brilliant champion and an up and coming young gun. Judging by the images the young ‘un came with no gun!

Billy Joe Saunders, 23 -0, 12 KO’s, George Groves, 23-3, 18 KO’s and James DeGale, 22-1, 14 KO’s were the trio I thought most likely to be looking at possibly future dust ups. Saunders falls a little to the wayside as his defence of his title, due this very Saturday, has been postponed due to an injury he sustained in training but as for the other two – surely they can find other things to do rather than face triple G!? DeGale is out this weekend defending his IBF title and is favourite to retain it. Having won the title in the US, defended it in Canada and is now defending in North America again, he is looking for a return to the UK for his next fight – would Golovkin travel? (Why ask him, in case the guy says yes…)

I did wonder if the father and son that make up “The Eubanks” might fancy it. Chris Eubank, JR., 22-1, 17 KO’s is highly thought of and is a fighter his team totally believes in but even their form of self-delusion should not make them believe that young Eubank could do any serious damage to Golovkin. Let’s be honest, Eubank Senior has already said his son could take Golovkin… So let’s not hope for any sense sometime soon for the monocled one…

I had reckoned it would take Golovkin up to five rounds to get rid of Wade and it was just a matter of which round between commentators on both sides of the Atlantic they fancied; I could find no one who thought Wade would win. In the end it never got past the second round and right now I am struggling to find anyone who could take him into the third round but there shall be fights out there that make sense and Golovkin shall be in them; the guy is pure box office.

And so to this weekend and I was going to wax lyrical about the Saunders defense of the title he took off Andy Lee, 34-3, 24 KO’s but an injury has forced him off the top of the bill at the Copper Box in London this Saturday.

Instead we have the cousin of the current linear heavyweight champion of the world, Hughie Fury, 19-0, 10 KO’s topping the bill. His big cousin, Tyson Fury, 25-0, 18 KO’s, has said that he believes his wee cousin can beat Mike Tyson’s youngest ever heavyweight champion tag but the time has come and the time will go for that. A few months ago Hughie was offered the Deontay Wilder, 36-0, 35 KO’s fight but his camp turned it down – wisely in everyone’s opinion.

According to his camp, there are very few fighters out there willing to fight him and they have come up with Fred Kassi, 18-4-1, 10 KO’s who will take him on for the WBO international belt.

Little is known about Kassi by the guys over here and with him being unranked there is an underwhelming feeling abroad. Hughie was supposed to be coming out to face a top ten guy, perhaps handpicked by his team to ensure a smooth transition to some form of world title fight. Kassi has been in with a couple of notable guys – he drew with Chris Areola 36-4-1, 31 KO’s and lost on points last time out to Dominic Breazeale, 17-0, 15 KO’s who has just been announced as Anthony Joshua’s 16-0, 16 KO’s, next dance partner.

Hughie will never go into a ring with his big cousin but Wilder is a possibility and so also is the IBF title held by Anthony Joshua. In reality though Joshua will take on Tyson long before he touches Hughie. Hughie’s routes to the top are affected by the fact that he is also not in anyone’s top 15 and to get noticed and into that top echelon of the sport he needs to step up the quality of who he is fighting. Of course you can only punch what is put in front of you and Kassi comes with all the hope and expectation of a guy who wants to win.

Of that there is little doubt. The doubt is whether he shall be able to last the distance and whilst Hughie’s knock out rate – 10 in 19 fights – is not as impressive as others, he can scrap and he can box and there is an expectation that his elevation to top of the bill means he will provide us with entertainment. Saturday is likely to give us a much clearer indication of… Hughie being able to outbox whoever is up for getting in the ring with him…

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