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Golovkin could fight Cotto-Canelo or Korobov-Lee winner, says Arum

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golovkin5676(Photo credit: Naoki Fakuda) By Dan Ambrose: Tonight, WBA Super World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) will be in the ring to face former WBC interim 160 pound champion Marco Antonio Rubio (59-6-1, 51 KOs) at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Rubio lost his interim title last Friday when he failed to make weight at the weigh-in. Golovkin can still win the WBC interim title, but Rubio can’t. He can’t win Golovkin’s WBA title either.

Golovkin is expected to get through this fight with flying colors to move forward to what he hopes are bigger and better fights in the future. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum believes Golovkin has a chance to fight the winner of the proposed fight between WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and challenger Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Arum also thinks the winner of the December 13th fight between Matt Korobov and Andy Lee is a possibility for Golovkin.

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Cotto doesn’t want or need to fight Golovkin

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cotto88888By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: There is a high demand for newly crowned WBC middleweight champ Miguel Cotto to fight fellow champ middleweight champ Gennady Golovikin (GGG). For starters, Cotto doesn’t owe GGG a fight. And this is no knock on GGG.

Cotto has been through numerous wars, built himself into the third highest pay per view attraction in North America, and most importantly, he’s paid his dues. He’s won titles in four different weight classes with his forth coming against Sergio Martinez. Beating Martinez gave Cotto the breakthrough he had been searching for. He tried twice against Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquaio and came up short. But now he’s “the man”. He’s calling the shots.

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Canelo has trump card if Cotto makes negotiations difficult, Chavez Jr could replace him

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chavez676By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA/WBC light middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) is hoping that a fight between him and World Boxing Council middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) can be negotiated for Cinco de Mayo next May in 2015.

It’s not going to be easy for Team Canelo to try and put a fight together against the 33-year-old Cotto, because the chances are high that Cotto will want to be the A-side in the negotiations.

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Mayweather not worried about Canelo-Cotto trying to take his May 2015 date

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floyd63By Chris Williams: The 24-year-old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is insisting that he will be fighting next May in 2015 on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo even if the No.1 money PPV star in boxing Floyd Mayweather Jr is fighting on the same date.

Canelo says he’ll fight on that date on HBO PPV regardless of what plans Mayweather has of fighting on the same date on Showtime pay-per-view. With the pay-per-view industry not able to support duel PPV events on the same night, Canelo appears to be playing a game of chicken with Mayweather, possibly hoping Mayweather will back down and move off the date so that Canelo can have that date, as well as the Mexican holiday date in September all for himself.

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Three fights I’d like to see other than Mayweather/Pacquiao Pt. 1

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golovkin000By Victor Candelario: Don’t me wrong me and boxing fans alike would love to see Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) take on the #1 pound for pound boxer in the sport Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr (47-0-0 26 KOs) and see if he can hand Floyd the first loss of his career but lets be realistic, the fight has lost a ton of its luster. Both fighters have showed in recent fights to be well past there primes, and if the fight were to occur I can see a ton of excuses as to why Floyd or Pacquiao were defeated coming from fans.

Just to name the two most common arguments that would be made, Floyd fans would say Floyd lost because he was past his prime , and Manny fans would say Manny was past his prime should he lose. So neither fighter at this point would get the same credit for defeating the other as they would have 7 years ago, when they were both at the top of the sport, at there best.

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Canelo interested in Pacquiao, Golovkin, Cotto and Chavez Jr fights

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canelo035By Dan Ambrose: Earlier today, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez announced along with Golden Boy Promotions that he’d signed a deal to have his fights shown on HBO. Canelo said that he’s interested in facing the following fighters: Manny Pacquiao, Julio Cesar Chavez, Miguel Cotto, and Gennady Golovkin.

Canelo said that the Cotto fight isn’t complete at this time and he’s interested in facing any one of the other names mentioned. Just how much interested Canelo is in fighting some of them such as Golovkin is unclear.

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Cotto vs. Golovkin: my dream fight

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golovkin7356By Bob Smith: Though it is almost certainly the case that Cotto will fight Canelo next May, with or without a tune up fight, many boxing fans want to see who truly is the best in the middleweight division. Perhaps Cotto’s decision not to face Golovkin is due to financial reasons; perhaps at this point in his career he feels he has nothing to prove – and as the first four division Puerto Rican champion why would he?

But perhaps also he is aware that Martinez was slipping or shot by the time that he fought Martinez, so his title is less than legitimate, and so he wants to avoid fighting a true middleweight until his cash out fight.

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Kellerman: Golovkin needs Canelo, Cotto or Mayweather to become a PPV fighter

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golovkin99999By Dan Ambrose: HBO commentator Max Kellerman said what many boxing fans already knew last Wednesday night when he said that WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (30-0, 27 KOs) needs one of the big names – Floyd Mayweather Jr, Miguel Cotto or Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to agree to fight Golovkin before he can become a pay-per-view seller in his own right.

It’s not enough right now that Golovkin is knocking out everyone he faces dating back to 2009. He needs to get a scalp from the like of Canelo, Cotto or Mayweather for him to get to the next level.

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Freddie Roach, Cotto, Pacquiao and Mayweather

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roach4523By Nathan Haworth: A lot of people have been discussing Miguel Cotto recently, this is obviously due to the one sided bout with previous Champ Sergio Martinez.

Cotto demolished Sergio in this Championship fight at The Madison Square Garden for The Ring and WBC Middleweight title. Martinez was a shadow of his former self due to recent knee surgery; people weren’t too sure how he’d recover from this and the result in the fight ultimately showed he in fact didn’t recover as well as we’d hope.

Martinez was retired within 10 rounds by his corner, not to mention being put down three times inside the opening round and apparently people still don’t see Miguel Cotto as a true middleweight (me included).

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