Golovkin vs Simon Still On, Moved to Friday After Klitschko Cancellation
by Scott Christ on Dec 5, 2011 7:04 PM EST
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With Wladimir Klitschko pulling out of his scheduled Saturday "clash" with Jean Marc Mormeck, four of the undercard fights that were scheduled for the show have been moved to Friday at the Ballsaal Interconti-Hotel in Düsseldorf.
The new main event will pit WBA middleweight "regular" titleholder Gennady Golovkin (21-0, 18 KO) against Lajuan Simon (23-3-2, 12 KO). Golovkin, 29, is one of the many top middleweights who has yet to distinguish himself from the pack, but the talent is there, and he fights in a fan-friendly style that will likely gain him some fans along the way, and also probably cause him to lose some fights. We saw the best and worst of Golovkin in his last fight, a TKO-10 win over Kassim Ouma in June.
Ruslan Chikov of BoxingScene.com says that Golovkin may finally have a new promoter, too. His nasty split from Universum is now in the past, and reports are that he's signed a deal with K2, the Klitschko brothers' company.
Simon, 32, hasn't fought since last December, when he lost a split decision to Dionisio Miranda. He's probably best-known as a mediocre challenger to Arthur Abraham back in March 2009, and three months after that he gave Sebastian Sylvester a decent fight, so the Philly fighter is no stranger to German soil.
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Also on the card, American heavyweight and Klitschko undercard regular Johnathon Banks (27-1-1, 18 KO) is scheduled to face veteran DaVarryl "Touch of Sleep" Williamson (27-6, 23 KO). Williamson, now 43, made a comeback in April and knocked out Mike Marrone in seven rounds. It was his first fight in almost two years.
Kazakhstan's Isa Akberbayev (8-0, 5 KO) will face Armin Dollinger (21-2, 8 KO) in a 12-round cruiserweight fight. Junior middleweight prospect Tony Harrison (4-0, 4 KO) of Detroit will face Harut Sahakyan (4-0, 1 KO) in a six-round bout.
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Signed with K2??
Great, so no seeing him in the US anytime soon and no seeing him against most top middleweights in the world who would probably have no business travelling to Germany for the fight.
I guess the best hope is a fight with Sturm down the road… :( … Very pessimistic here…
Yeah these are my thoughts exactly. I was hopeful when The Ring and HBO started talk him up a few months ago that it was a sign that Golden Boy or another American promoter might pick him up. K2 can’t be any worse than Universum, but I’m still skeptical that we’ll see him against other top ten guys for at least a while.
If he’s with K2, he’ll spin his wheels on their undercards.
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Too bad...
I’ve had really high hopes for him to possibly make an impact. He’d be the first prospect I really followed on the way up (I’m still young in my boxing fanhood).
Yes, which will mean that we will be indeed seeing more of him, but the Klitschkos don’t fight in the US. So any future Golovkin opponents will have to be willing to travel to Europe.
I guess Daniel Geale, Pirog, N’Jikam and Sturm might be in the running, although except for Sturm they would all have to worry about hometown decisions, so honestly I don’t think they’ll be willing to do it.
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