LOS ANGELES -- Gennady Golovkin will meet David Lemieux in a three-belt middleweight title unification bout Oct. 17 in New York.
Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler, announced the matchup Saturday.
The 160-pound champions will meet on 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.
Golovkin is among the world's most dominant boxers with 20 straight stoppage victories 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.
Lemieux also is on a roll with nine straight dominant victories. He won the IBF title in June.
