JASON QUIGLEY WAS ringside last night at Madison Square Garden for Gennady Golovkin’s eighth-round stoppage of David Lemieux in a middleweight title unification contest.
The Kazakh fighter, known as ‘Triple G’ is one of the boxers Quigley aspires to and the Ballybofey man had a box office seat in New York as Golovkin consolidated the WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight titles.
Before 20,548 fans, Golovkin stopped the contest in the eighth round.
Quigley, dubbed ‘El Animal’ in Los Angeles, had aided Lemieux’s preparations at a training camp in Canada and was rubbing elite shoulders last night, including those of rapper 50 Cent (pictured above).
A dominant Golovkin staggered Lemieux in the fourth, put him to his knees in the fifth and sent him packing in the eighth.
These are the nights to which Quigley, 8-0 from the first eight fights of his professional career, is aspiring to.
“I want the likes of ‘Triple G’ [Gennady Golovkin], Cotto, Andy Lee – I want all of these guys to be looking over their shoulders, and have their eye on me,” Quigley has said.
“I want them to know I’m creeping up on them, biting on their heels.
“I’ve no interest in a title that nobody has heard of. I want to beat the best to be the best. Whoever the best is, I’m aiming to take them out of there and take everything they have.
“These guys are where I want to be. They’re top guys and I want to get there.”
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