Andre Ward keen to secure fight with Gennady Golovkin

For those looking to see how middleweight knockout artist Gennady Golovkin responds to getting hit by an opponent almost his equal in strength, look no further than October 17 in the big room at Madison Square Garden on HBO, pay-per-view for an answer.

The matchup figures to be explosive, with two of boxing’s most crowd-pleasing, aggressive fighters, both of whom possess devastating punching power.

He expects a fight with Golovkin, who has been dominating the middleweight division, to be huge. Golovkin has been convinced the Canelo-Cotto fight is evenly stacked, but predicted that Canelo will be the victor.

Shortly after Lemieux’s title victory, which came a month after Golovkin knocked out Willie Monroe in the sixth round of a one-sided title defense, Loeffler and De La Hoya began talking about the making the fight. “Whenever there was a champion or somebody that had something to risk to fight Gennady, they would never get in the ring with him….” He won the IBF title in June.

“David is the biggest puncher that Gennady has faced and Gennady is the biggest puncher that David has faced”, Loeffler said. Andre Ward is available and we can make it happen. The world’s best pound-for-pound boxer opted to end his career wisely by choosing Berto, rather than retiring with style in a rematch against Manny Pacquiao or a dream fight with British boxer Amir Khan.

“It’s a true middleweight championship, and that’s what Gennady has always wanted”, Loeffler said. No wonder, being that he has an angel face and devil fists, and looks to remove his foe’s head from shoulders from second one in all of his fights. “I was there [in Montreal] for the N’Dam fight and I saw up close how good that jab is”.

Kazakh fighter Golovkin, who is unbeaten in 33 fights with 30 knockouts, holds the WBA belt and the WBC interim belt, while Canadian Lemieux is the IBF middleweight champion.