Golovkin’s promoter: We reached out to Cotto and we didn’t get any response

By Boxing News - 03/22/2015 - Comments

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By Dan Ambrose: Hoping to get a fight against WBC middleweight belt holder Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs), Tom Loeffler, the promoter for WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs), contacted Cotto about a fight between them, but Cotto failed to respond.

This isn’t really surprising though, because Cotto and his adviser Gaby Penacaricano haven’t shown any interest in facing Golovkin despite the fact that he’s perceived as the No.1 fighter in the division. While Ring magazine still has Cotto as their Ring champion at middleweight after his win over the 39-year-old Sergio Martinez last year in June, many boxing see Cotto as the No.2 or even No.3 middleweight in the division behind Golovkin and Peter Quillin.

Cotto hasn’t named his next opponent for his June 6th fight as of yet, but it’s rumored to be 41-year-old Cornelius Bundrage. If Cotto chooses Bundrage to fight, then it’ll take away any argument that he or his adviser might have about them only wanting to take on the big pay-per-view fighters.

Bundrage isn’t a pay-per-view fighter, and if Cotto chooses him to fight, he could have problems trying to get boxing fans interested in purchasing it on HBO pay-per-view. There’s little doubt that Cotto’s next fight will be on PPV. The only question is who he’ll be facing.

“We reached out to Cotto before we got this fight [against Willie Monroe Jr], and we didn’t get any response,” Loeffler said via esnewsreporting.com. “I couldn’t get any commitment to make that fight. Gennady’s not going to wait around until someone agrees to fight him, because he wouldn’t fight at all. He’s fighting the best available guys. Willie Monroe is number 2 [in the World Boxing Association’s rankings], and one of the best guys in the division. It’ll be a big challenge to see if Gennady can cut off the ring against a guy like Monroe. It’ll be an exciting fight,” Loeffler said.

It’s probably not worth the effort for Loeffler and Golovkin to be trying to get a fight against Cotto, because it’s pretty much academic at this point that it’s not a match-up that Cotto is interested in taking. But he’s not the only one.

Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, who Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya has pegged as the future No.1 pay-per-view star in the sport, has shown no interest in fighting Golovkin either.

Canelo does mention his name when asked about him, but he hasn’t shown any desire to get inside the ring with the Kazakhstan star, even though both fighters weight essentially the same after they rehydrate after they weigh-in for their fights.

“We think by the fall, if everything goes the right way, we’ll see a big fight in the fall [for Gennady]. We don’t know if it’ll be Cotto, we hope it will be. If not, Canelo is fighting a week before Gennady; that would be a huge fight. Carl Froch, I was talking with Eddie Hearn, and he’s finally kind of warmed up to the idea and he realizes that would be a great fight. I think you’ll see a big promotion coming up down the road,” Loeffler said via Seconds Out video.

I don’t think Froch is going to agree to fight Golovkin. There are too many other fighters in front of Golovkin, and the 37-year-old Froch doesn’t have enough time to get to a fight against him. Froch has options of fighting Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Bernard Hopkins, Andre Ward, James DeGale and George Groves. Those fights, if Froch were to take them all, would eat up the next two years of Froch’s career. Froch likely wouldn’t be interested in facing Golovkin at 40. It would be the wrong opponent at the wrong time of Froch’s career.
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