Miguel Cotto, the middleweight champion and World Boxing Council titleholder, has a dangerous mandatory challenger in Gennady Golovkin — the consensus top fighter at 160, and a man who holds another major world title.
The WBC issued Cottp an exception, ostensibly when a bout with Canelo Alvarez was on the horizon. That’s not happening, but the WBC will still allow Cotto to face Daniel Geale on June 6 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
If Cotto wants to go on to face Canelo next without losing his world title, then they’ll need to make a deal with Golovkin’s team.
The WBC “won’t sanction the fight against Canelo unless they have our approval, because it’s clear that Gennady is the next mandatory challenger after he makes one voluntary defense,” said Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions on April 25.
Cotto’s promoter reportedly is already seeking such a deal. It hasn’t come yet.
“We’ve been approached by Roc Nation already to try to work something out with Cotto,” Loeffler said. “So it just depends on if there’s something that’s acceptable to work out. The first thing would have to be that whoever wins that fight [Cotto vs. Alvarez] would have to guarantee to fight him [Golovkin] — which so far they haven’t. The second thing, there would have to be some significant financial compensation to Gennady, because he put himself in the position to fight Rubio, and without that it wouldn’t make any sense.”
Golovkin will defend his World Boxing Association belt against Willie Monroe Jr. on May 16 in Southern California.
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The WBC issued Cottp an exception, ostensibly when a bout with Canelo Alvarez was on the horizon. That’s not happening, but the WBC will still allow Cotto to face Daniel Geale on June 6 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
If Cotto wants to go on to face Canelo next without losing his world title, then they’ll need to make a deal with Golovkin’s team.
The WBC “won’t sanction the fight against Canelo unless they have our approval, because it’s clear that Gennady is the next mandatory challenger after he makes one voluntary defense,” said Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions on April 25.
Cotto’s promoter reportedly is already seeking such a deal. It hasn’t come yet.
“We’ve been approached by Roc Nation already to try to work something out with Cotto,” Loeffler said. “So it just depends on if there’s something that’s acceptable to work out. The first thing would have to be that whoever wins that fight [Cotto vs. Alvarez] would have to guarantee to fight him [Golovkin] — which so far they haven’t. The second thing, there would have to be some significant financial compensation to Gennady, because he put himself in the position to fight Rubio, and without that it wouldn’t make any sense.”
Golovkin will defend his World Boxing Association belt against Willie Monroe Jr. on May 16 in Southern California.
http://www.boxingscene.com/golovkins-promoter-cotto-seeking-step-aside-deal--90238
