Golovkin’s trainer wants Cotto fight before end of year

By Boxing News - 04/27/2015 - Comments

golovkin883By Dan Ambrose: WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez is hoping that a fight between Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs) and WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) can take place this year in September in New York. However, Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler is reporting that Cotto’s people are trying to work a deal with them.

Cotto may be looking to have Golovkin step aside so that he can defend his WBC title against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez later in September.

“We’ve been approached by Roc Nation already to try to work something out with Cotto, so it just depends if there’s something acceptable to work out,” Loeffler said via Boxingjunkie.com.

If Golovkin does step aside for the Cotto-Canelo fight to take place in September, it would likely be under the condition that he be the next fight for the winner of that bout. I don’t that it will work out, however, because Canelo likely won’t hold onto the WBC middleweight title if he beats Cotto. That means Golovkin could potentially stuck without getting a big money fight against Cotto or Canelo.

If Cotto loses to Canelo, and then we see Canelo immediately vacate rather than face Golovkin, it’ll put Golovkin in a situation where he would probably wind up facing #1 WBC Jorge Sebastian Heiland or #2 WBC Tureano Johnson for the vacant WBC middleweight title. It wouldn’t even be worth the trouble for Golovkin to fight for the WBC title at that point because he wouldn’t have a big name to fight.

“[Miguel Cotto] would be the fight, I think that the public has been clamoring for and I think it’d be a great big fight here in New York,” Sanchez said via secondsout.com. “I think it’s probably bigger than The Garden. That would be the fight to cap the year and if that was the fight, I don’t think that we’d fight four times. That would be the last fight of the year.”

I don’t think it’s too likely that Golovkin will get a fight against Cotto this year. My guess is if Golovkin doesn’t agree to some kind of step aside option, he’ll wind up seeing Cotto vacate his WBC 160lb title so that he can go ahead and face the guys he wants to fight such as Canelo, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. I don’t think Cotto has any interest in fighting Golovkin at all whatsoever. The thing is if Golovkin agrees to a step aside deal, I can definitely see Canelo vacating the WBC title in lightning fashion if he beats Cotto to capture the belt. I think Canelo couldn’t get rid of the WBC title quick enough because if he keeps it, he’ll have to defend immediately against Golovkin, and I don’t think that’s a fight that Canelo wants.

Golovkin will be back in the ring next month on 5/16 against #2 WBA Willie Monroe Jr. (19-1, 6 KOs) at the Forum, in Inglewood, California, USA. This fight could prove to be the most difficult one of Golovkin’s career because Monroe is a slick fighter who is hard to hit. Golovkin isn’t very fast and he might find it difficult to connect with anything big against a slick fighter like Monroe.



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