Mayweather: Golovkin has to beat Ward, then I’ll fight him

By Boxing News - 03/24/2016 - Comments

Floyd Mayweather JrBy Chris Williams: Superstar Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0, 26 KOs) says he’ll give IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) the fight he badly wants as long as he first calls out former WBA/WBC super middleweight champion Andre “SOG” Ward (28-0, 15 KOs) and beats him first.

That’s all Golovkin has to do, and then Mayweather will come back and fight the Kazakhstan fighter. However, since it doesn’t look like Golovkin will be fighting Ward anytime soon, it’s safe to say that the boxing world won’t be seeing a Mayweather vs. Golovkin fight.

Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez recently said that he believes that Mayweather is getting ready to launch a comeback and fight Golovkin. Sanchez believes this because of the comments that Mayweather has made about Golovkin in the past.

Rather than seeing this as a case of Mayweather not being impressed with Golovkin, Sanchez has twisted things in his mind to think that Mayweather wants to fight Golovkin. Judging from Mayweather’s comments, it doesn’t look like he has any interest in fighting him.

“When you hear stuff about Triple G, like I said before, I told Triple G what he had to do if he wants a fight with me,” said Mayweather to Fighthype.com. He’s gotta call out Andre Ward, beat Andre Ward, and then I’ll fight him. I haven’t seen him call out Andre Ward yet.”

Golovkin is clearly not going to fight a difficult bigger guy like Ward. He probably doesn’t want any part of the defensive genius, and he might not like having to go up in weight to at least 168 to make the fight happen. Ward is fighting at light heavyweight right now, and he’s not going to be coming down in weight anytime soon.

However, there’s always a chance that a fight between Golovkin and Ward could take place in the summer if Golovkin wants the fight. Ward will be facing Sullivan Barrera (17-0, 12 KOs) this Saturday night on March 26 on HBO Boxing from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

This will be Ward’s first fight of his three-fight contract with HBO. He says he wants to fight another time before facing Sergey Kovalev in November. The fights there for Golovkin if he wants it.

Mayweather says he’s only interested in making a comeback to fight WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia for his old belt if/when he does launch a comeback.

“If I did think about coming back, there’s only one name I’m looking at and that’s Danny Garcia,” said Mayweather. I have to say Danny Garcia because you look at Danny Garcia, he’s undefeated and he’s a world champion. If I’m going to fight a guy, it’s going to be a world champion.”

Mayweather vs. Garcia is a great fight. I can’t wait to see that match-up. As long as Garcia doesn’t get beaten in his next fight or two, we could see Mayweather and him battling it out. Garcia is pretty vulnerable though.

Mayweather might want to take that fight as fast as possible because if Garcia fights someone like Kell Brook, he’ll probably lose. I think Garcia is in the wrong weight class. He needs to go back down to 140.



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