Billy Joe Saunders and Camp Believe Gennady Golovkin is in for a Shock

Gennady ‘The Triple G’ Golovkin versus Billy Joe Saunders is likely to be the next big thing in the middleweight division. Golovkin said to capture Saunders’ WBO middleweight championship was his immediate dream instead of agreeing to an immediate rematch with Daniel Jacobs. (Photo: Icon Sportswire/Getyy Images)

Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (37-0-0, 33 KOs) for his colossal punching power is the most feared of active fighters today. His last 23 opponents were all dispatched inside the fight distance. But his aura of superhuman invincibility was noticeably diminished last Saturday, March 18, at the Madison Square Garden in New York City when Daniel Jacobs pushed him to the limit. Golovkin very narrowly escaped defeat via unanimous verdict.

The idea of an immediate rematch had surfaced but Gennady Golovkin and his camp had a different plan. Golovkin sincerely acknowledged the struggle Jacobs gave him and unselfishly expressed his willingness to face the American in a rematch but not in the immediate future. He said his immediate post-Jacobs plan was to capture the WBO middleweight world championships, the only one lacking in his collection of boxing accolades as the current undisputed world middleweight champion.

The WBO middleweight belt currently belongs to a former British Olympian Billy Joe Saunders (24-0-0, 12 KOs) who himself expressed his enthusiasm to meet and beat the 'Triple G.' The 26-year-old native of Hatfield, England, though, has admittedly stated his awareness of the danger he will be into come fight day he is aligned with the middleweight ruler in a boxing ring. The fight, in which Golovkin's WBA, WBC, IBO, and IBF world titles will put on the line, is being rumored it will happen in Gorlovkin's native land of Kazakhstan sometime in June.

Telling about his chances of upsetting Gennady Golovkin, Billy Joe Saunders promoter Frank Warren argued: due to Saunders's advantage in size, strong chin and most of all his southpaw stance, will give Golovkin problems. One of the curios observations in Gorlovkin's near defeat at the hands of Jacobs was the New Yorker's occasional switching as a southpaw. Because Billy Joe Saunders is a natural southpaw and probably to redesign his style modeled after that of Daniel Jacobs, Saunders and his camp is probably well-convinced Gennady Golovkin, 34, will finally fall. There is no identifiable fight in the record books however in which a fighter beats his opponent by imitating the style of another.