Pirog injured, pulls out of scheduled Golovkin fight

By Jason Kim: WBO middleweight champion Dmitry Pirog (20-0, 15 KO’s) has suffered an injury during training for his August 25th fight against WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (23-0, 20 KO’s) and won’t be able to make the fight according to Dan Rafael.

This is bad news for boxing fans and really bad for Golovkin, because he was looking forward to this fight with a lot of anticipation to net his first big scalp in the middleweight division.

It’s unclear now when the 32-year-old Pirog will be healed from injury. Hopefully the fight can be salvaged for a later date. If not, then Golovkin will have to wait to get the winner of the unification bout between WBA Super World middleweight champion Felix Sturm and IBF champ Daniel Geale. Golovkin has been waiting his chance at fighting Sturm for ages now, and he’s ready to take him apart to kick him off his throne.