Abel Sanchez Knew From The Beginning That Gennady Golovkin Was Destined For Greatness

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    When it comes to boxing gyms fighters are a dime a dozen. Every so often a fighter will come around and the trainer will know instantly that there’s something special with threir pupil. The two may go far depending on dedication and work ethic or they may go nowhere due to a lack of effort but either way the trainer knows if that person has that something special inside of them which is what happened when Abel Sanchez met Gennady Golovkin and after a few months of working together, Sanchez promised his pupil that he would have him at the top of the middleweight division with in just a few years and the rest is history.

    “It’s been documented that 3 months after I started working with him, I have a dry erase board in my gym and I went up to the dry erase board and I wrote down the numbers 1 through 12,” said Sanchez. “At the top of the list I put Muhammad Ali. Number 2 I left vacant and then I put names like Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. names that were relevant at the time and I said,’I promise you if you give me three years without any kind of interruptions, in 3 years you’re going to be number 2 there. You are going to be the most of voided fighter. You will be the best middleweight in the world and we are going to have a hard time finding you fights.”