By Jim Dower: Gennady GGG Golovkin could be within one or two wins away from taking Floyd Mayweather Jr’s spot as the No.1 fighter in all of boxing. David Lemieux is little more than a prop for Golovkin, a step stone to get him to where he wants to be the pecking order. Golovkin is in a great situation where he’ll take the No.1 spot potentially by default even if the winner of the Saul Canelo Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto fight chooses not to fight him.
If they don’t fight him, the boxing world will see them ducking GGG and then the WBC title will be stripped from the winner of that fight. Whether the title is stripped or the vacate it, Golovkin stands to gain from it.