David Lemieux’s impressive 3rd round knockout of Curtis Stevens last Saturday might make it more difficiult for him to get a big fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Lemieux (37-3, 33 KOs) mentioned wanting to take a fight against the 26-year-old Canelo (48-1-1, 34 KOs) before he faces IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in a rematch to avenge his loss to him from 2015.
HBO boxing analyst Jim Lampley says he think Lemieux’s performance against Stevens may move him further away from a big fight against Canelo because the Golden Boy Promotions start might see it as a risky fight for him to take. That would be troubling if Cabnelo and his promoters decided that Lemieux was too dangerous to fight. How would Canelo be able to fight in the middleweight division if he can’t even fight Lemieux. If he’s not going to fight Lemieux and Gennady Golovkin, it would marginalize him with the boxing fans. There are only so many fights against guys like Liam Smith and Amir Khan that Canelo can take before the boxing fans start to see him as ducking the best.
“You look at that and you understand why Golovkin threw 50 days in the 1st round and fought him in a technical fight,” said HBO boxing analyst Jim Lampley to Thatboxingvoice.com about Lemieux. “Gennady knew that there was danger in fighting David Lemieux. The danger is if you square up and face him. Gennady didn’t let that happen. He turned this way and threw the jab, kept Lemieux under control and won the fight. I’m sure he’d do the same thing again if they fought again. Lemieux wants a fight with Canelo Alvarez. I’m not sure he helped himself. That kind of power, you just don’t see,” said Lampley.
“Billy Joe Saunders has a middleweight title. Lemieux wants to win a middleweight title again.While Canelo and Golovkin are focusing on each other, he might have to go fight Saunders to get a chance at winning a title belt. Once he [Lemieux] has world title belt, he can get another chance at Golovkin, because Golovkin has made it very clear that he wants to win all of the belts before he leaves the division,” said Lampley.
Lemieux didn’t help himself get Canelo fight says Lampley
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Re: Lemieux didn’t help himself get Canelo fight says Lampley
Yep, Canelo won't fight Lemieux. Neither will Saunders.
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Re: Lemieux didn’t help himself get Canelo fight says Lampley
We could not agree more with Mr. Lampley.
Canelo is not a natural MW and we saw what happend to Kahn against Canelo and to Bute when they went up one division: it is hard to deal with the best of an higher division.
So, I doubt Canelo would fight Lemieux if it is not for the unified title. I even wonder if he want to fight GGG, even for the unified title.
Lemieux hits very hard and he could KO a boxer like GGG if he can catch him.
However, GGG is so strong technically and so big that it will be hard for Lemieux to get the unified title. But ... in boxing you never know ! the big punch is always a possibility in a ring, and GGG is not immune from a knock out. Lucky punches happen.
Another boxer has the same problem: there are not many boxers who are ready to fight Beterbiev. He is a scary moster that guy.
Canelo is not a natural MW and we saw what happend to Kahn against Canelo and to Bute when they went up one division: it is hard to deal with the best of an higher division.
So, I doubt Canelo would fight Lemieux if it is not for the unified title. I even wonder if he want to fight GGG, even for the unified title.
Lemieux hits very hard and he could KO a boxer like GGG if he can catch him.
However, GGG is so strong technically and so big that it will be hard for Lemieux to get the unified title. But ... in boxing you never know ! the big punch is always a possibility in a ring, and GGG is not immune from a knock out. Lucky punches happen.
Another boxer has the same problem: there are not many boxers who are ready to fight Beterbiev. He is a scary moster that guy.