Golovkin (#3) vs. Macklin (#5) - Decent challenge for Golovkin?

Any fight I would love to see is a great fight. Two guys in the top 5, no one would seriously complain here. Winner deserves a shot at Geale/Martinez fo sho.

 

Good fight for the division. I like Mack the Knife, but it's hard to imagine him not gassing and getting stopped in this one. Just too hittable.

 

Macklin isn't in a position to dictate the terms of when he challenges for a world tile. He should be happy he is been afforded another world title opportunity on HBO. It's a very hypocritcal quote from him anyway. Minutes after Geale beat Mundine in January, Macklin was all over twitter saying he wants to fight Geale next. So Geale was just after getting 12 rounds in but he is ready to go straight away with him, no tune up required there ? :huh

 

Golovkin could fight STurm in germany!
Team Sturm is waiting for the results of the Soliman "cheating thing". If the IBF says everything is ok with Soliman, Sturm could be end up fighting against Golovkin. This would be his only chance to get a title shot.
Also Golovkin lives in germany so I think he would be happy to fight more often in germany.

 

Totally agree. And June 29th is still three months away. And he should training no matter what. Time to step up Mack the Knife!

 

This is a decent match up because Macklin is a hard nights work for anyone. Decent puncher and campaigned at euro/world level for a while now. That being said, this fight is all wrong for Macklin. GGG has serious power and Macklin ships far too much punishment and is starting to look very shop-worn

If he goes to war with GGG and gets badly hurt then thats him done on the big stage.

'That's life'

 

This. Arum may have mentioned his name even though he has nothing to do with Macklin and Dan may have mentioned his name but Macklin himself said he wouldn't be taking a GGG fight in June so im not sure why everyone is expecting this.

 

Macklin is a tough *******, GGG would hit him and Macklin would hit him back. (At first) so it'd be fun to see how Golovkin would take that psycologically.

I'd rather see Macklin get the Chavez Jr Payday tbh, then return home for a domestic super fight with Darren Barker.

 

Very good points.

 

Very good fight. We'll see what GGG is really all about now.

 

I'm a Macklin fan but yeah. Can't really argue with this. He either wants the fight or he doesn't.

 

Macklin would get raped.

 

I would love to see it happen. GGG against a legitimate, rated middle. Too bad that from the looks of things it won't.

 

Money talks, bull**** walks.