Gennady Golovkin eyes three belts against David Lemieux
Pair will face off in title unification bout at Madison Square Garden
Gennady Golovkin will meet David Lemieux in a three-belt middleweight title unification bout on October 17 in New York.
Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler, announced the match-up after lengthy negotiations. The 160-pound champions will headline an HBO pay-per-view telecast at Madison Square Garden.
Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) holds the WBA belt and the WBC interim belt, while Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) is the IBF middleweight champion.
The fight is the next summit in a remarkable rise for Golovkin, who has become one of the world's most dominant boxers with 20 straight stoppage victories and 14 title defences over the past seven years. The Kazakh fighter, who lives in Los Angeles, has struggled to tempt big-name boxers into the ring with him while he attempts to unify the four major middleweight titles.
Finally we were able to get somebody to agree to fight Gennady, somebody that had something to risk. Whenever there was a champion or somebody that had something to risk to fight Gennady, they would never get in the ring with him
With Lemieux, Golovkin has landed a date with one of the world's top 160-pounders and a fellow champion.