WBC president to speak with Golovkin and Canelo’s management on conference call

1-canelo-cotto (9)By Dan Ambrose: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman will be holding a conference call with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s promoters at Golden Boy Promotions and Gennady Golovkin’s promoters at K2 Promotions on Friday to discuss a fight between Canelo and Golovkin. Sulaiman gave Canelo 15 days previously to start negotiations with Canelo otherwise he would strip him of his title, but he’s not playing it strict with him for some reason.

Sulaiman is talking about letting Canelo get in a voluntary defense of his WBC middleweight title next May, and then a possible fight between him and Golovkin taking place next year in September. Canelo would be fighting on both of the Mexican holidays in 2016.

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Golovkin should give Canelo the 155lb catch-weight he wants

1-CANELO ALVAREZ 05By Tim Fletcher: It’s becoming increasingly clear that for interim WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) to get the fight that he wants against the current WBC 160lb champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-0-1, 32 KOs), he’s going to need to agree to the 155lb catch-weight that Canelo wants for the fight to happen.

Whether he likes or not, Golovkin needs to agree to the catch-weight if he really wants the fight against the young champion. I don’t think it’s asking a whole lot that Golovkin agree to give Canelo this small handicap.

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Canelo-Golovkin: The fight HBO wants you to see…. just not right away

Image: Canelo-Golovkin: The fight HBO wants you to see…. just not right away(Photo Credit:Ed Mulholland/Golden Boy/Golden Boy via Getty Images) By Robert Earle Stanton, 2015 Allen Hoey Award winner and author of “Selling the Pain.” This past Saturday Night if any casual fans tuned in, or disgruntled casual fans tuned in to see the replay of Mayweather vs Pacquiao they got their “Money’s Worth” by watching Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, now 45-1-1 with 32 knockouts take out James Kirkland, now 32-2 with 28 knockouts in a bout that was Hagler/Hearns-esque in style.

Knockout artist Kirkland rushed Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and backed him in a corner from the opening bell to get knocked down to somehow survive the first round and first half of the second where he was drilled with clean rights and hooks by “Canelo” to get dropped in the third round by an uppercut to get up and have the referee say, “Show me something” before “Canelo” hit him with a right hand that twisted his body around and laid him out flat.

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De La Hoya says he’ll wait 2 years before matching Canelo with Golovkin

Canelo Alvarez v James Kirkland(Photo Credit:Ed Mulholland/Golden Boy/Golden Boy via Getty Images) By Dan Ambrose: Last night, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya shutdown any talk of a fight between his fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) and WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs) by saying that he prefers that fans wait two years before he makes that fight.

De La Hoya says that Canelo, 24, can still comfortably make the 154 pound weight division right now, and that he feels that a fight between him and Golovkin will be much bigger in two years from now.

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