Former middleweight champion Daniel Geale called out WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin in an interview yesterday, saying that he’d “love to fight Sturm for the IBF title but would also like to fight Gennady Golovkin for the WBA title”.
“Gennady Golovkin is beatable,” Geale told Fightnews.com, “and I’m the middleweight to do it. Golovkin done it easy against Matthew Macklin, but again my style would be a problem for him.”
Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter, offered a quick jab of a response to Geale’s comments.
“Geale can fight Golovkin anytime for the WBA belt he gave up,” he said. “We actually made an offer to his promoter for the fight on February 1 in Monaco, but it was turned down.”
Geale was stripped of the esteemed WBA “super” title back in January for avoiding his mandatory fight against Golovkin, instead choosing to fight Anthony Mundine for a $2 million pay day.
“I am aware of my mandatory obligations,” said Geale. “However, I felt that the challenge from Anthony Mundine was an opportunity to settle the score once and for all.”
The belt was subsequently given to Golovkin, who will make his 10th WBA title defence against Osumanu Adama on Feburary 1 next year. Loeffler has told Geale’s management they can have the bout after Adama if they are still interested.
There is a bit of an oddity here as Golovkin’s team asked for the Geale fight – and Geale being the IBO No.1 fighter could have quite easily made the fight happen.
Geale, however, chose to wait until Golovkin announced a willing opponent in IBO No.3 raked Adama to publicly to call out the current WBA/IBO champ. It’s a bit disappointing that Golovkin announces his next fight and a week later Geale says he is now interested.
It looks likely that the Felix Sturm versus Geale rematch will take place in Germany next year as it makes much more financial sense for both parties.
Sturm want’s to avenge his loss to Geale, and for geale this will present another opportunity to take another world title from the now four-time world champion – and to get his old IBF belt back where it belongs.
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