Big Bear, CA (October 29, 2013) After weeks of intense training in
Big Bear, California, boxing’s fastest rising superstar Gennady “GGG”
Golovkin is headed to New York City to defend his WBA and IBO
Middleweight World Titles this Saturday night against Brooklyn’s Curtis
Stevens at Madison Square Garden, “The Mecca of Boxing” and LIVE on HBO®
(10:00 p.m. ET/PT.)
With two massive fight billboards in the New York City area and a full
week of media activities ahead, the Golovkin/Stevens clash has become a
must-see attraction in the “city that never sleeps”.
“I’m excited to fly to New York City for this fight with Curtis Stevens.
Fighting at Madison Square Garden is always very special to me,” said
Golovkin. “The training camp was hard, but I’m in great condition and
ready to fight.
“Coming
back to Madison Square Garden and New York City with one of the premier
fighters in the world is an experience like no other,” said Tom
Loeffler of K2 Promotions. “With two of the biggest punches in the
middleweight division, fans can expect a lot of fireworks on Saturday
night.”
Head trainer Abel Sanchez added, “We’re ready to showcase the best
middleweight in the world this Saturday night. Gennady will deliver
another terrific performance.”
With the highest knockout percentage (89%) in the history of the
middleweight division, Golovkin will be looking to extend his 14-bout
knockout streak when he makes the 9th-defense of his world titles.
This past January 19, in front of a full house of New York City fight
fans, Golovkin dominated top rated challenger Gabriel Rosado, stopping
him in the seventh round at Madison Square Garden.
ABOUT “GOLOVKIN VS. STEVENS”:
Golovkin vs. Stevens is a 12-round bout for Golovkin’s WBA and IBO
Middleweight World Championship, presented by K2 Promotions in
association with Main Events, GGG Promotions and Madison Square Garden.
In the televised co-feature, undefeated heavyweights Mike Perez and
Magomed Abdusalamov will clash in a 10-round bout presented in
association with Sampson Boxing LLC.
Remaining tickets priced at $300, $200, $100 and $50 are available
through at the Madison Square Garden Box Office, all Ticketmaster
outlets, Ticketmaster charge by phone (866-858-0008) and online at
www.ticketmaster.com and www.thegarden.com
WBC News
From the office of WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán:
The following is one of the weekly “Hook to the Liver” columns that
have been published in El Universal every Sunday for the last five years
and written by WBC President Jose Sulaiman.
This column was written by his children – Pepe, Lucy, Hector,
Fernando, Mauricio, and Claudia – while he recovers from surgery. From
October 27, translated from Spanish:
HOOK TO THE LIVER
“A Moment in Life Which Will Never Return” – definition by Jose Sulaiman
Days keep going by in the same waiting room of the Intensive Care
Unit – now our friends at the hospital are saying it should be named
“Sulaimans Waiting Room” because we have taken possession of it. Our
beloved dad has begun to ask for things, a sure sign of recovery, and
things are looking better. Don José is now reorganizing his strategy for
the rest of the fight and his plan is working.
Since the day we arrived, we noticed that the clock in the waiting
room wasn’t working and it stayed that way for several days. Then we
thought of the possibility of making it work again when our dad left the
hospital, but the day Don Jose showed an important recovery, our mom
said it was the moment to get it fixed – that way, our dad would also
keep it up. We placed new batteries, the clock started working, and his
health is now improving faster than before, even when we now understand
this will be a long recovery journey .
Don José is very passionate about life and he has dedicated his life
to work for people. He is tireless, but as sensitive as he is, he has an
artistic side to him that goes beyond simple admiration of works of art
– he is an extraordinary photographer. He has captured the colors of
the world and his images show how acutely he observes things and people.
It was our grandfather who gave him his first camera and since he was
very young, he started photographing his family, friends, and the
street of Valles City, where he used to live. We witnessed this passion
since we where little because he always had his camera with him. First
we were his models. He would ask us to sit for countless hours and
photographed us wearing different outfits – he would change the scenery
in the back and even the position of the lamps to cause various effects.
Later on we became his assistants and we carried the case with the
lenses and film. He often surprised us, doing things we considered kind
of crazy, because we would lay down on his tummy in the middle of the
highway to Puebla to capture the perspective of the central lines.
Our dad has had the chance to travel around the world. The WBC’s
annual convention takes place in different countries every year and,
except for the last few years, he always took his camera along. These
conventions have been a very appropriate way to show his work as a
photographer, and have allowed him to mount three exhibitions of the
same. People would usually be impressed at how a man that handles of
matters and problems in the complex world of boxing could have the
sensibility to capture such beautiful scenes, and mostly the expression
and emotions on the faces of the so many different people he portrayed.
The possibilities of observing the world are infinite and our dad has
the eye to capture the small details generally unseen to the people in
general.
He always photographed in color because the world in rich in it,
though his first pictures are in black and white. Color brings an
expressive element to show his particular vision of the world. But there
is a strange detail concerning his photography phase – pictures of
boxing are rare. He has very few, two or three takes of Ali and the
people in his corner, and that is it. Outside the ring he photographed
people that work with him in the WBC and friends. For the convention in
Mexico, an exhibit was organized and for that, a book of his pictures
was printed and where a phrase that gathers the style and vision he had
of his images was included: “An instant in life that will never come
back”.
Don José is also passionate about art – he likes painting and
sculpture. There are two characters he admires most, Christ and Don
Quijote, and he has quite a collection of both in his home. He has read
Don Quijote de la Mancha several times and we kind of see the
similarities in his life, since some facts in the boxing world seem like
madness and always against the wind, all of them being always for the
benefit of the boxer and sport in general. Lowering the fights from 15
to 12 rounds brought many attacks and severe critiques, especially from
foreign television networks, but he never desisted nor took a step back
in any of his many actions and decisions.
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If you're a Gennady Golovkin fan, this has been a pretty incredible
year so far. Rising from moderate obscurity, Golovkin has had a
tremendous 2013, going 3-0 already and now being discussed as a possible
pound for pound contender. The big talk for Golovkin is what next, as a
showdown with Sergio Martinez has been discussed. But really, people
just want to see GGG - he has that aura about him right now where you
just have to tune in to see the violence that he unleashes. The
undefeated Golovkin has not seen the judges' scorecards since 2008, and
he doesn't show any signs of slowing down here. Curtis Stevens has a
tough night ahead of him if he hopes to somehow steal Golovkin's
momentum away.
