Boxing News: David Lemieux will need more than power to defeat Gennady Golovkin

International Boxing Federation middleweight champ David Lemieux is all set to challenge World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association middleweight titlist Gennady Golovkin this weekend at Madison Square Garden, but the former may need to bring all his arsenals to beat the undefeated Kazakh.

Lemieux has knocked out 31 of the 36 men he has faced, including 24 in either the first or the second round. But despite Lemieux’s impressive knockout record, the Canadian fighter insisted he still needs to bring more than his punching prowess to halt Golovkin’s undefeated streak and unify the middleweight titles both fighters have.

“It's going to be a hard test in front of me, but I'm really not worried and, yes, I do have power, but I'm not going into this fight only with power,” Golovkin said, reports Yahoo Sports . “I'm going to need all the tools in order to be sharp in a fight of this degree.”

However, Golovkin has never been off his feet in several hundred pro and amateur fights, although “GGG” has not been pushed to his limit and has not beaten a top-10 opponent yet. According to ESPN ’s Steve Bunce, Golovkin is boxing’s scariest fighter and arguably the best in the world today.

The 33-year-old Kazakh has stopped or knocked out all 15 of the boxers that have stood in front of him, which led to his professional record of 33, where 30 of the fights have ended quickly. Bunce noted that only Canada’s Ian Gardner has won more than two rounds in a fight against Golovkin in 2008, according to the judges of the fight.

Lemieux, on the other hand, is coming off a six-match winning streak, but one of his two losses was a knockout defeat from Marco Antonio Rubio, whom Golovkin blasted in two rounds. His loss was followed by another rout at the hands of Joachim Alcine via unanimous decision. However, ever since his two consecutive downfall, Lemieux won nine a row including seven by stoppage.

“Those two losses are completely insignificant to where I am today, because, you know, everybody has their path, everybody has their ways of doing things and their evolution and becoming a champion,” Lemieux said. “They have zero significance and are in my past.”

Lemieux should be aware of losing his powers in the later rounds, but if the Canadian international could put some damage to Golovkin at the early intervals, things could get interesting on Saturday’s fight night.

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