Golovkin wants Cotto, Canelo or Chavez Jr in 2015

By Boxing News - 09/01/2014 - Comments

golovkin000By Dan Ambrose: Once WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) takes care of business against WBC interim 160lb champ Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs) on October 18th, he wants to go after several big names in 2015 for pay-per-view fights.

Golovkin wants WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in 2015. Golovkin says he’s ready to take any of those three on next year with his WBA title on the line for the fights.

“I want a pay-per-view fight,” Golovkin said to Radio Raheem. “Of course, Miguel, of course Canelo Alvarez and of course, Chavez Jr. Who first? It doesn’t matter.”

That’s what you like to see in a fighter – fearlessness. Golovkin isn’t afraid to take on any of these three fighters, and he’s ready to get in the ring with them once he gets the Rubio fight out of the way on 10/18 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.

Getting any of those three big names to fight Golovkin could prove to be next to impossible right now. We’re already hearing Cotto’s trainer Freddie Roach saying continually that Golovkin doesn’t bring anything to the table as far as him being a pay-per-view fighter.

At the same time, Roach says he likes Golovkin’s power and skills, but he still feels that Cotto would knock him out if a fight between them took place. Roach isn’t ready to test that theory though. He’s just guessing at this point.

Cotto does have bigger options out there for big money fights, but not a lot of them. Cotto will be wasting a fight later this year in taking on a likely small name like Andy Lee. That fight is nothing compared to a Cotto-Golovkin match-up. Next year, Cotto will likely be fighting Canelo unless he asks for too big of a split.

That’s not going to be easy at all for Cotto to get a fight negotiated with Canelo, because we’re not talking Sergio Martinez here. Canelo won’t willingly agree to be the B-side against a guy who hasn’t prove to be a big pay-per-view fighter in his own right.

The only times Cotto has brought in big pay-per-view numbers is when he’s been matched against Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao. If Cotto can get the Canelo fight, then his options are Chavez Jr, Pacquiao and Mayweather. Those are the main three. After that, Cotto will have run out of options unless he wants to fight rematches with the three.

Golovkin is probably going to be frozen out by all three of the big names for a while until he gets older or until they run out of competition. I feel that Cotto will never fight Golovkin. I think that’s a given. But Chavez Jr and Canelo are both young enough to where they’ll likely want to fight him in 2-3 years once they have run out of opponent to fight, and once Golokvin is fully recognized by the entire boxing world as the main guy at 160.

Golovkin will likely be winning the WBC middleweight title next year after Cotto or Canelo vacate the belt rather than fight him. Golovkin will take on the next available contender for the vacant belt. Once he has the WBA and WBC title, Golokvin can target the IBF belt held by Sam Soliman. That’s his best bet. WBO champion Peter Quillin will likely never agree to fight Golovkin, so he’s kind of likely in the same boat as Cotto.



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