Saunders' Promoter Aims To Finalize Golovkin Deal For June

Frank Warren, promoter for WBO world middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs), is hoping to finalize a deal to face IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC world champion Gennady Golovkin.

Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs on Saturday night at New York's Madison Square Garden.

Following his latest victory, the 34-year-old from Kazakhstan said: “Saunders is my dream fight for unifying all the middleweight titles. It is my ambition to take from him the only belt I am missing.”

Saunders is very keen to take on Golovkin and views the fight as his biggest test since turning professional after representing GB at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

There is talk of the potential showdown taking place on June 10 in Golovkin’s home country.

Warren is currently in negotiations with Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions.

“Golovkin-Jacobs was a fantastic fight and I thought Golovkin won it by a couple of rounds. Having said that, I can understand why people say it was a closer fight than that because some of the rounds were very close but the way I scored it I made Golovkin the winner,” Warren told Boxing News.

“We’re trying to make that fight [Golovkin-Saunders] but whether we can get it done I don’t know. I thought there were some things that will encourage Bill in that fight, when Jacobs turned southpaw that was when he was most successful. Bill’s a big middleweight and obviously a southpaw and Bill’s tough, he’s got a good chin. It’s an intriguing situation but we’ve got to get it over the line.

“We are talking and we’ll see where it goes.”