CORK MIDDLEWEIGHT SPIKE O’Sullivan will square off with heavy-handed former IBF World middleweight champion David Lemieux on the undercard of Gennady Golovkin’s rematch with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on 15 September.
O’Sullivan was more than happy to answer the call when Canadian Lemieux called him out on Twitter for what promises to be a war, and the contenders’ bout was confirmed on Monday night as one of the chief supports to the long-awaited World middleweight title main event.
'Be careful what you f***ing wish for': Spike O'Sullivan sets up Vegas fight with former world champ https://t.co/sfcMgIxAbE
— Gary Spike OSullivan (@spike_osullivan) August 16, 2018
“This fight is just another step towards fulfilling my ambition of becoming a world champion and providing a good life for my family,” said the Mahon man, whose record reads 28-2, 20 KOs.
David Lemieux is just an object in my way that I fully intend smashing through. Then, I want Canelo or GGG — either one, it doesn’t matter! I’m going to war.
Said former titlist Lemieux [39-4, 33KOs]: “I’m looking forward to fighting Spike O’Sullivan next. I have some unfinished business at 160. We’re going to take one fight at a time.
Spike is an action fighter like me. He’s a tough cookie and comes to fight. This is a fight for the fans. Come 15 September, I want to steal the show.
O’Sullivan, in career-best form having dedicated himself to fully to his world title dream, was initially scheduled to face Canelo after his originally-scheduled rematch with Golovkin before their sequel to fall foul of the Mexican’s positive drug tests.
The world-ranked 33-year-old was then in the frame to face ‘Triple G’ as a replacement for his Golden Boy stablemate but his team withdrew from negotiations when they reached an impasse too near the prospective 5 May fight date.
Golovkin instead fought and stopped the undersized Vanes Martirosyan, while O’Sullivan found similar success in a stay-busy fight on the Kazakh’s undercard.
‘Spike’ and his team remain optimistic that victory over a legitimate fellow challenger in Lemieux will see the Leesider square off with the winner of the main event.
Also added to the GGG-Canelo II undercard is WBO light-middleweight titleholder Jaime Munguia [30-0, 25 KOs], a prospective foe of top-ranked challenger Denis Hogan from Kildare. The Mexican will be making his second title defence against Brandon Cook [20-1, 13 KOs].
Former pound-for-pound king Roman Gonzalez [46-2, 38 KOs] will also return to action when he trades leather with Moises ‘Moi’ Fuentes [25-5-1, 14 KOs] in a 10-rounder.
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