Trainer Abel Sanchez believes that Miguel Cotto and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez are not willing to face his fighter, Gennady Golovkin, who has been expressing interest in facing both boxing superstars next year.
Sanchez said in an interview with On The Ropes Boxing Radio that Golovkin is very open to facing Cotto in a title unification bout next year, but he pointed out that the reigning World Boxing Council middleweight looks uninterested in facing GGG.
"I doubt it very much that Miguel would step into the ring with Golovkin," Sanchez said. "He's talking about Canelo, he's talking about other fighters that are not even in GGG's league, but that's business and boxing has become a business so whatever is best for him business wise is what he's gonna do."
Golovkin, the reigning World Boxing Association and International Boxing Organization middleweight champion, is also being linked to Alvarez, but Sanchez also doubts Canelo's willingness to go up against his fighter.
"Everybody says that they're willing to take that," Sanchez said. "We've made offers to just about everybody that was relevant a couple of fights ago in the middleweight division and nobody has stepped up. I think if they really want to fight Golovkin, then if what we are offering or suggesting is not good enough, then they need to make [promoter] Tom Loeffler an offer."
Golovkin is coming off an impressive second-round knockout win against Marco Antonio Rubio last week in their middleweight title showdown at StubHub Center in California.
With the win, Golovkin improved his record 31-0 with 28 victories coming by way of knockout. Based on the performance of his fighter, Sanchez feels that no one in the light middleweight or middleweight division can handle Golovkin because of his superb punching power.
"I said a long time ago that there was nobody at 154 or 160 that could go twelve rounds with him and I stand by that now," Sanchez said. "There is nobody at 160 that will go twelve rounds with him."
If the fight against Cotto or Canelo doesn't happen next year, Sanchez that they might just move up in weight and chase fights against Carl Froch, Andre Ward or Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. next year.
"We may have the bigger challenges at 168 in the future, there's Froch, there's Chavez, there's Ward up at that level weight wise. Right now he's cruising along with the 160's and no one is giving him any problems," Sanchez said.
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