Golovkin-Lemieux will last up to three rounds, Mosley says

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    Gennady GolovkinFormer three-division world champion Shane Mosley is preparing for his latest comeback into boxing when he takes on former two-division world champion Ricardo Mayorga Aug. 29 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.

    The matchup comes nearly seven years after their first tussle at the Home Depot Center in September 2008. In a fight where it appeared Mosley was going to emerge with the split decision victory, the hard-hitting beast from nearby Pomona didn’t want to see a homecoming fight overshadowed a controversial decision.

    Known for his sensational fighting down the stretch – as shown in both fights against Oscar De La Hoya – Mosley put Mayorga down with a barrage late in the final round, and knocked Mayorga out with one second left with a devastating left hook.

    Mosley knows all about wars, so our very own Fernando Pimentel asked him about a boxer who is going to make his HBO Pay-Per-View debut on Oct. 17 at Madison Square Garden.

    Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (33-0, 30 KO’s) takes on David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KO’s)

    When asked if he felt the fight deserved to be a pay-per-view, Mosley gave his honest opinion based off experience with HBO.”

    “HBO chooses what they want to be pay-per-view worthy. There’s a lot of fights that I had with different people that wasn’t pay-per-view,” Mosley said. “I think me and Margarito was regular HBO – that should’ve been pay-per-view.”

    Mosley believes that HBO is trying to hype up Golovkin because Cotto-Canelo is supposed to take place in November on pay-per-view, but he still thinks Golovkin-Lemieux is pay-per-view worthy, just on the lower end of the totem pole.

    “I kinda think it is pay-per-view worthy, but maybe at the low totem pole,” he added. “They are trying to get a range of where GGG is at as far as the world’s concerned because they really don’t know how he is a pay-per-view star.”

    Mosley added that for Golovkin to be a pay-per-view star all the time, he needs this fight vs. Lemieux to be very successful.

    “He gets a million to two million buys, they are going to do pay-per-view all the time,” Mosley said. “But if he gets low buys, they are going to be like, ‘Ah, maybe he’s not pay-per-view yet, maybe we got to stick him on regular channel a couple more times.’

    HBO is expecting Golovkin to beat Lemieux and then face the winner of Cotto-Canelo, which Mosley described as a “good reason” why HBO is gauging the Kazakh.

    As for the fight, Mosley is predicting Golovkin will knockout Lemieux within three rounds at the most.

    “I really believe that Triple G is going to be able to cut down the ring, he’s going to be in great shape – he knows this is his opportunity to be on top – and to be that superstar that everyone wants to be.

    “I don’t think Lemieux – he might not go a couple rounds – maybe two or three rounds – maybe. The next fight is going to be a good fight.”

    To be fair to Lemieux, I think he’s going to put up one heck of a fight as long as it lasts. However, I only see Lemieux lasting four rounds against Golovkin on Oct. 17.