By Dan Ambrose: Marco Antonio Rubio’s WBC interim 160 pound title will be up for grabs in his fight against WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) on October 18th, according to Steve Kim and Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions.
This means that the winner of the Golovkin-Rubio fight will be the mandatory challenger for WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that Cotto will necessarily face the winner of the Rubio-Golovkin fight, because Cotto could very well vacate his WBC title rather than face Golovkin or Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs).
Cotto could also lose his talked about fight next year against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. That’s a very real possibility. Cotto has looked good lately, but he’s done it against a shot Sergio Martinez and Delvin Rodriguez.
The Golovkin vs. Rubio fight will be taking place at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
“Tom Loeffler confirms that Rubios Interim WBC title will be on the line vs GGG on Oct 18th #Boxing #MexicanStyle,” Steve Kim said on his twitter.
The Golovkin-Rubio fight is a good one, but having the WBC 160 pound interim title up for grabs makes the fight that much more interesting. Even if Cotto or Canelo never face Golovkin, it still puts Golovkin or Rubio in the position where they can claim the WBC title by 2015.
That’s a good thing because we’ll get a unified champion, and help reduce some of the paper champions that are floating around the middleweight division. At this point you don’t know who the real deal is at 160.
At least we’re going to get a chance to find out who the paper champions are in 2015 unless the WBC gives Cotto or Canelo permission to bypass the winner of the Golovkin vs. Rubio fight so that they can face other opponents. Anything is possible, but hopefully the WBC doesn’t make that move so that boxing fans can find out if Cotto or Canelo are for real. I just want to see if they vacate rather than fight the Golovkin-Rubio winner. It’s going to look bad if they do vacate.
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