JAKARTA, INDONESIA (November 1, 2012) The World Boxing Association
announced that Daniel Geale will be stripped of his “Super Champion”
status and Gennady Golovkin is named as their “sole WBA middleweight
champion”. President Gilberto Mendoza made the declaration at the WBA’s
91st Annual Convention in Jakarta.
Geale won the WBA “Super
Champion” title when he unified the WBA and IBF titles by winning a
decision over existing WBA “Super Champion” Felix Sturm on SEPTEMBER 1
in Oberhausen, Germany.
However, because of Sturm’s long overdue
mandatory obligation to Golovkin, the WBA declared the winner of
Sturm/Geale bout must face the winner of Golovkin/Grzegorz Proksa by
DECEMBER 31.
Golovkin defeated Proksa by stopping him in the
fifth round in a very impressive performance. Geale has since declined
to face Golovkin announcing he will fight Anthony Mundine in JANUARY
2013 in Australia.
“We commend the WBA for clearing up this long
overdue situation and recognizing Gennady as their only champion in the
middleweight division. Gennady is proud to be the WBA and IBO champion
and looks forward to returning to the ring soon” said Tom Loeffler of K2
Promotions.
Geale had a great win over Sturm in Germany,
however he soon joined many others in avoiding Gennady. Geale turned
down a potential lucrative fight against Golovkin on HBO to sign for the
Mundine fight. “We don’t blame Geale and his team for taking a safer
fight, however they knew the obligations they would have prior to the
Sturm fight. Geale is still IBF champion and if he continues to win,
this might be a great unification fight in the future.”
Golovkin,
now 24-0-0 with 21 knockouts, made his highly anticipated HBO and
United States debut on SEPTEMBER 1, impressively stopping #3 WBA ranked
and European Champion Grzegorz Proksa in the fifth round at the Turning
Stone Casino in Verona, NY.
Plans for Golovkin’s next fight will be announced shortly.
ABOUT K2 PROMOTIONS
K2
Promotions currently promotes the unified heavyweight champions, Vitali
and Wladimir Klitschko. Over the last decade, K2 Promotions has
promoted the most heavyweight championship title bouts of any promoter
worldwide. K2 Promotions is one of Boxing’s most respected promoters
showcasing boxing’s biggest events in the US and Europe at some of the
world’s premier venues.
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