The crowd-pleasing Kazakh is unhappy that a superfight with Canelo Álvarez has been tabled yet again, which could spell bad news for stand-in Danny JacobsStop me if you’ve heard the one about the middleweight who was too good to get a big fight, the prodigious talent who time and again found himself on the raw end of the elemental risk-versus-reward calculus at matchmaking’s essence. Once upon a time it was Charley Burley, described by no less estimable fistic minds than Eddie Futch and Ray Arcel as the greatest all-round fighter either had ever set eyes on, whose formidable ability and skin color in the 1940s cruelly conspired to earn him the unenviable title of best ever boxer to never be...
Froch is 39, he’s been retired for 30 months and only Canelo Álvarez can offer Golovkin the career defining fight he craves before he hangs up his own glovesThere are several reasons Carl Froch would come out of retirement to fight the most dangerous opponent he could imagine, Gennady Golovkin.And, without even reading between the lines of the latest rumours, you already know what they are: the noughts on whatever upright digit the middleweight champion’s promoter, Tom Loeffler, comes up with. I’m guessing it would have to at least look as pretty as this for the former super-middleweight champion: £2,000,000. Related: Carl Froch, the Cobra who just loved fighting | Kevin Mitchell Related: Álvarez-Golovkin is the new mega-fight, but we’ll...
Both fighters have destroyed British opposition in recent weeks yet while a bout between them seems logical, much like Mayweather-Pacquiao it may take a long time to become realitySaul “Canelo” Álvarez loves British fighters. They just keep falling at his feet. When Liam Smith became the fourth fighter from these islands to feel the heat of the Mexican’s power in Texas on Saturday night – joining Matthew Hatton, Ryan Rhodes and Amir Khan – we were reminded that this is a very special champion.But it’s about time he picked on someone his own size. Like Gennady Golovkin. The unbeaten and probably unbeatable Kazakh – who destroyed Kell Brook in five cracking rounds in London the previous weekend – is the...