By Eric Baldwin: Boxing fans hoping to see the mega-fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC heavyweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) and Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) will need to wait until the fall of 2017, because that’s when Canelo’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions are aiming towards for the fight.
Golden Boy wants the 25-year-old Canelo to have more time to build up his weight so that he’s comfortable fighting at 160 pounds against Golovkin. Further, they also want more time to build up the Canelo-Golovkin fight to make it bigger than it is right now. They feel that by September of 2017, the Canelo vs. Golovkin fight should be big enough to stage it at that time. Some boxing fans might say that Canelo is pulling a Floyd Mayweather Jr. by waiting Golovkin out until he’s old and lost his skills like Manny Pacquiao had when Mayweather finally got around to fighting him.