By Allan Fox: With the huge pay per view numbers that the Sergio Martinez vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. hauled in for their September 15th fight in Las Vegas, it’s likely that when Chavez Jr’s upcoming suspension has been completed, he and Martinez will fight a rematch without facing anyone else in between. This means that WBA World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (24-0, 21 KO’s) won’t be getting a shot against either Chavez Jr. or Sergio Martinez any time soon, perhaps even after they fight for a second time.

It’s unfortunate but Golovkin is too dangerous because of his power and skills for Chavez Jr. or Martinez to risk fighting him. No doubt they would be willing to fight Golovkin if he had a huge fan base in the United States, but he doesn’t. Golvokin is still slowly building his fan base and it might take years for him to get to the point where Chavez Jr. and Martinez will want to fight him.

By then, Martinez won’t be the fighter he is now, if he’s still fighting, and won’t be worth it to fight him. Chavez Jr. could be a possibility, but he’ll likely be forced to move up to super middleweight in a year or two, so Golovkin won’t be getting fight with him either unless he’s up for fighting at super middleweight against a guy that would walk in the ring in the 180s against him.

What has hurt Golovkin is he spent much of the last six years fighting mostly in Germany. That really hurt him because those fights weren’t televised in the U.S. He may have done a great job of winning fans in Germany, but he remained unknown fighter in the U.S outside of with the Hardcore boxing fans who are well aware of him. Golovkin fought for the first time in the U.S earlier this month on September 1st in beating Grzegorz Proksa by a 5th round TKO. It was a good win and it was televised on HBO. But it was the first fight for Golovkin on HBO, and it’s going to take him ages to build any kind of fan base.

It’s doubtful that he’ll ever be a huge name in the U.S, because there’s not a big built in Kazakhstan fan base in the U.S that will automatically support him like there is with Chavez Jr. and his Mexican fans. As such, Golovkin will likely be ignored by Chavez Jr. and Martinez for the remainder of his career. It’s sad but it is what it is. Golovkin will have to be satisfied with defending his WBA title and hopefully getting one of the other champions like the WBO belt holder Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam to fight him or maybe Dimitriy Pirog. It’s obviously not the same thing as fighting Chavez Jr. in front 80,000 fans at the Cowboys Stadium in Texas like Sergio Martinez will be doing as soon as Chavez Jr’s suspension is up and his bad right knee is healed. Golovkin will have to settle for facing the lesser names unfortunately.