Zero chance GGG gets Cotto-Canelo winner

By Boxing News - 11/20/2015 - Comments

Boxing: Golovkin vs LemieuxBy Tim Fletcher: It looks like IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady GGG Golovkin won’t be getting a shot at the winner of the Miguel Cotto vs. Saul Canelo Alvarez fight in their next fight.

According to Dan Rafael, there’s rematch language written in the contract on both sides that suggests that we’ll be seeing a second fight between the two catch-weight middleweights rather than the winner taking on Golovkin.

Rafael says there’s zero change of the winner of the Cotto-Canelo fight facing Golovkin.

“I’m told Cotto-Canelo contains mutual rematch language. Good chance there’s a rematch either way, although some gray areas exist in lingo,” Rafael said on his Twitter. “Bottom line is that there is virtually zero chance – no matter who wins – that GGG gets the winner. No shot. Cotto-Canelo #boxing.”

We saw it coming that Cotto and Canelo wouldn’t agree to fight Golovkin. Canelo, who many fans see as the more likely of the two to eventually face Golovkin one of these days, recently told Lance Pugimire of the LA Times that he’s still not a middleweight.

Canelo says he’ll eventually be a middleweight in the future, but right now he doesn’t see himself as a middleweight. Cotto’s trainer Freddie Roach is talking of wanting Cotto to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. next. Roach also says that Golovkin isn’t popular enough right now for him to be fighting Cotto.

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Since we’re probably going to be seeing a second fight between Cotto and Canelo, we can only hope that Saturday’s fight between the two catch-weight middleweights is close enough for a rematch to make sense. It would be pointless for a second fight to take place between the two fighters if it’s a one-sided mismatch like Canelo’s recently 3rd round knockout loss of James Kirkland or his one-sided 10th round KO win over Alfredo Angulo last year in March.

Golovkin is going to have to be OK with traveling in different paths than Cotto and Canelo. There are plenty of good fighters that Golovkin can fight to keep his career going. He’s just going to need to forget about fighting any of the popular guys right now unless he wants to move up to super middleweight to challenger Andre Ward, Badou Jack or James DeGale.

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Those fighters would likely agree to fight Golovkin. He could also fight some of the junior middleweights like Jermall Charlo, Demetrius Andrade, Erislandy Lara and Jermell Charlo.



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