GEORGE GROVES believes that Gennady Golovkin should not risk moving up to a higher weight division. Groves has sparred Golovkin in the past but the Briton, a world champion at 168lbs, doesnโt expect a super-fight with Gennady Golovkin or Canelo Alvarez any time soon.
โI think certainly Alvarez is too small and Golovkin is too small. What he does well, heโs getting on a bit but heโs got so much power. Heโll lose an edge to the power coming up. The big guys that heโs fought lately, he hasnโt quite had the success with, like [Danny] Jacobs. So itโs like anything: the bigger you are, the better you are at absorbing a shot. Heโs going to fight big super-middleweights, 13 plus stone, his power isnโt going to be the same. He doesnโt need to. Heโs a big name at middleweight, thereโs enough fights out there for him at middleweight. If I was him Iโd stay there,โ George said.
The boxing world is waiting to see whether to see whether Canelo and Golovkin will agree to a rematch after their controversial draw in Las Vegas. โWhen the fight was made I thought Canelo would be a little too slick for Golovkin, I thought Golovkin dipped just because he hadnโt been tested over the years. I saw in the weigh-in that Golovkin looked in real good shape, better shape than Iโd seen him recently. Probably up for it much more, knew it was a bigger payday, a bigger challenge, opens up the door for some other bigger fights. That was motivation for it,โ Groves added.