Abel Sanchez laces up Gennady Golovkin’s gloves
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ABEL SANCHEZ certainly did not hold back in making his feelings known over Gennady Golovkin’s decision to end their nine-year relationship.
One of the more respected trainers in boxing today, Sanchez publicly accused the former Kazakh unified word champion known as GGG of being greedy, which given the timing of the split, just after the fearsome puncher signed a mammoth $100 million 10-fight deal with US sports streaming outfit DAZN (“Da Zone”) is hard to argue with.
From his Big Bear, California base, Sanchez revealed that after signing the deal with Da Zone, Golovkin wanted him to take a reduced fee going forward — ie accept a flat rate rather than a percentage of his new hugely inflated purse. Sanchez refused, thus bringing to an acrimonious close to one of the most enduring fighter-trainer partnerships of the modern era.
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