By Radio Rahim
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya seems very willing to match Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) against IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) - if Canelo defeats WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) on November 21st at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Golovkin did his part by stopping David Lemieux in the eight round of their unification on Saturday night at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Golovkin-Lemieux was a final eliminator for a mandatory shot at the WBC championship. The World Boxing Council has already ordered the Cotto-Canelo winner to make their first defense against Golovkin.
Cotto-Golovkin might be a harder fight to make, should Cotto win, because he's not very interested in fighting at the full middleweight limit of 160-pounds. The fight with Canelo takes place at 155-pounds and his previous bout with Daniel Geale was fought at 157.
Team Golovkin have made it very clear that a fight with Cotto would only take place at the middleweight limit and they have no desire to do a catch-weight.
Canelo has sparred with Golovkin in the past and wants to fight him in the near future.
De La Hoya, who also promotes Lemieux, says a fight between Canelo and Golovkin is inevitable.
"Why not [do Canelo-Golovkin]? That's a fight that should be made. Why not? Eventually it should be made. I have no reason not to make it. Canelo wants to fight him," De La Hoya told BoxingScene.com. "A fight between Canelo and Golovkin - it has to happen, no reason for it not to."
