World boxing champion Gennady Golovkin to fight against Matthew McLean June 29
ASTANA. April 4. KAZINFORM - World boxing champion in middleweight according to WBA and IBO, Kazakh Gennady Golovkin will have the next fight on June 29 against the Briton Matthew McLean, Vesti.kz reports quoting the website Boxrec.com.
For the Kazakh boxer this fight will be the third this year and the eighth defense of the WBA belt. The Briton had his last fight on 15 September 2012, knocking out in the first round Haitian boxer Dzhoashima Alsina. Prior to that, McLean had lost two fights in a row, first to the German Felix Sturm, and then Argentine Sergio Gabriel Martinez.
However, it is reported that negotiations between the teams Golovkin and Maclean had not yet ended. If these negotiations are successful, then the fight Golovkin-MacLean will be held in New York and will be broadcast by HBO channel.
We are reminding that Gennady Golovkin in his last fight knocked out Japanese Nobuhiro Ishida.