By Edward Chaykovsky

Abel Sanchez, trainer of IBO/WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 34KOs), is hoping an agreement is reached with mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs (32-1, 29KOs).

The World Boxing Association has ordered both sides to reach an agreement by October 10th, with the fight needing to be staged within 120 days.

Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions, who promote Golovkin, is speaking with Jacobs' manager/adviser Al Haymon to reach an agreement. The target for staging this fight is an HBO televised date of December 10th at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Sanchez wants that fight to happen and hopes a deal is finalized, but he's not holding his breath. In the past, Jacobs has called for a showdown with Golovkin - but he also makes it clear that he wants to be paid very well for the fight.

Jacobs' monetary requirements have made it difficult to put the fight together, because while the fight is one of the best matchups to make at 160-pounds and likely to sell a ton of tickets in New York - it doesn't have enough power to sell on a pay-per-view platform. That means the fight would have to take place on network television, and HBO has only so much money in their budget.

Golovkin-Jacobs recently got a financial boost of sorts. Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez was originally scheduled to fight on HBO on December 10. He injured himself during last Saturday's knockout of Liam Smith and won't fight again until 2017. With Canelo's withdrawal, HBO is able to use the budget set aside for Canelo's fight and combine it with the license fee for Golovkin's planned return.

"Absolutely [we want to fight Jacobs next], but you have to remember that when they say things like this [that they want Golovkin], there’s always a second part of it. The second part of it is that they have to 'make it worth my while, that fight is worth X amount of dollars.' How the hell do they know how much it’s worth? It’s however the market will bear, there’s only so much in a budget and when he hasn’t made the kind of money that he’s asking for, it’s kind of difficult for a fight to be put together that way," Sanchez told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.

While the two sides are talking, Sanchez wants the negotiations to play out between the promoters and not on social media.

"I think that it’s a fight that has a lot of meaning in a lot of areas. The fact that he’s a cancer survivor, the fact that he’s able to beat cancer is a great for Danny. I think he counts his days as lucky just like a lot of us do that have had a life threatening injury or sickness, but it has to be made not on Twitter or on Facebook, it has to be made [by] going to the people that can make the fight, instead of putting it out there and making yourself look like a fool when it doesn’t happen,"  Sanchez said.