Kazakh Golovkin and British Macklin fight in the US officially confirmed
ASTANA. April 12. KAZINFORM - The fight between the world boxing champion in the middleweight as per WBA andIBO version Kazakhstani sportsman Gennady Golovkin and the British boxer Matthew Macklin has been officially confirmed, Vesti.kz correspondent reports with reference to BoxingScene.com.
The fight takes place this year on June 29 at the Foxwoods Resort Casino arena in Mashantucket (Connecticut, USA). It will be the main boxing night event on HBO channel within Boxing After Dark series.
For the Kazakh boxer this fight will be the third the current year and the eighth defense of the WBA belt. Briton's last fight was held on September 15 2012, when in the first round he knocked out the Haitian boxer Dzhoashima Alsina. Prior to that, Macklin lost two fights in a row - first to German boxer Felix Sturm, and then to Argentine Sergio Gabriel Martinez.
It bears reminding that Golovkin in his last fight knocked out Japanese boxer Nobuhiro Ishida.