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<\/a>By Jeffrey \u201cItalian Medallion\u201d Cellini<\/strong><\/p>\nThe list of fighters that are pushing for IBF\/WBA\/WBO Gennady Golovkin to move up in weight class continues to grow. Former champions Bernard Hopkins and Roy Jones, JR. have been questioning Golovkin\u2019s reluctance to move up to the 168 and 175 weight class in order to find better opponents. However, Abel Sanchez, Golovkin\u2019s trainer has a different perspective on the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know why people are saying that really,\u201d said Sanchez concerning skepticism from some boxing fans, along with active and ex-fighters that Golovkin is avoiding a move up in weight (168 and 175) in order to find bigger fights. \u201cHe [Golovkin] still has unfinished business at 160. He\u2019s a small middleweight. All his weights are usually a pound or a pound and a half under the 160 pound limit. He\u2019s never struggling.<\/p>\n
Kell Brook weighed more 30 days before, seven days before, three days before, and after the fight. So I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re asking him to fight the winner of [Sergey] Kovalev and [Andre] Ward. I believe two guys that said that was Bernard [Hopkins] and Roy Jones, JR. When Bernard moved up to fight at 175, he had just got soundly beaten by Jermain Taylor two fights in a row.<\/p>\n
So he had nowhere to go. So he moved up to 175. So he moved up to 175. When he moved up to 175, he fought a guy Antonio Tarver, who had three losses already. He had three losses on his record, and that\u2019s who he [Hopkins] moved up to fight. And he\u2019s asking Golovkin to fight the winner of Kovalev-Ward, which I think in everybody\u2019s opinion will be the No.1 fighter in the world. The other guy that\u2019s asking him to move up is Roy Jones, JR. Roy Jones, JR. was a great 160 pound champion. He fought a couple of times at 168, and then wound up at 175.<\/p>\n
He moved up to 175 like he\u2019s asking Golovkin to move up. But you know who he fought at 175? Mike McCallum. Mike McCallum who was 41-years old, and eights prior to that had been the 154 pound champion, junior middleweight. He [Jones] beats him. One fight later, McCallum retires at 41-years old. So did Roy Jones, JR. move up to fight 175 [pounders]? No, he fought a guy that\u2019s a 154 pounder. So these guys are hypocrites when they say these things, because they\u2019re asking Golovkin to move up to fight the No.1 fighter in the world. If Kovalev happens to win, a guy that everybody thinks is the \u2018Krusher\u2019, and if Andre happens to win, Andre in the Super Six looked like a million dollars, if he beats Kovalev, he\u2019s right back on top. So it makes no sense to me. It\u2019s hypocritical to me when people say [Golovkin should move up], and it\u2019s guys that should know better,\u2019 said Sanchez.<\/p>\n
Golovkin, 36-0, 33 KO\u2019s, and his team are currently in negotiations to face mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs for some time in March. Furthermore, Golovkin\u2019s handlers are in negotiations with Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez for a mega-shown down in September of next year. Just as \u201cMarvelous\u201d Marvin Hagler demonstrated during his career, there is no need for \u201cGGG\u201d to move up in weight, especially when there are still plenty of challengers lining up in the middleweight division.<\/p>\n