Arum: No Way Will De La Hoya Risk 'Cash Cow' Canelo With GGG
By Miguel Rivera
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum believes the heavily anticipated fight between Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez and IBF, WBA, WBC, IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin will not happen in 2017.
Golovkin returns to the ring next Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City - where he makes a mandatory defense against Daniel Jacobs. If he wins, and Canelo wins his scheduled fight with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on May 6th - the two sides are in talks to stage a potential fight in September.
"I don't think that [Canelo's promoter] Golden Boy Promotions is going to accept that fight between 'Canelo' and Golovkin, because chances are that GGG will beat Canelo, who is, for now, the only great figure under Golden Boy," Arum told ESPN Deportes. "I do not think they're going to expose him to GGG."
If Jacobs or Chavez Jr. upset the odds in their respective fights, that will surely end any hope of a Golovkin vs. Canelo fight in the near future. The fight has been talked about since early 2016.
"If Chavez beats Canelo, that is something that also destroys any possibility of that meeting between Canelo and GGG," Arum said. "Anyway, I do not see Canelo and GGG in the same quadrilateral for the remainder of this year."
Arum believes that Golden Boy CEO, Oscar De La Hoya, is playing is safe and won't do anything that would harm his company cash cow. De La Hoya has recently assured reports that his company is doing everything possible to make that fight happen in the fall, but Arum does not believe that.
"I do not see that fight happening, because I believe that Oscar de la Hoya will not risk his sacred cash cow, which he milks the dollars from, in a fight against GGG. Because, in my opinion, Golovkin would be a big favorite to win that fight."
