By Hilmar Rojas
The championship board of the World Boxing Association announced today their decision to officially appoint Gennady Golovkin as the middleweight champion of the organization, due to the Felix Sturm bein pushed up to the status of "super champion.
Also announced that Hassan Ndam N'Jikam and Avtandil Khurtsidze will officially fight for the interim middleweight championship on October 30 2010 in Paris, France.
In the first instance, the WBA, sums up the resolution to all of the events that have occurred in the middleweight division, which was dominated by Sturm, who asked to be considered as super champion.
At the 88 WBA Convention in Medellin, Sturm made a formal request for an extension of his obligation to defend the title, against Gennady Golovkin, who at the time was the mandatory challenger to Sturm.
Finally, on February 15, 2010, Sturm said that hr would make the fight with Golovkin, but there were problems with the money for the fight.
The request was confirmed on February 24 and asked to be named super champion. On April 8, 2010, the committee decided to appoint him, and ordered the candidates to fill the vacancy of the regular title.
Later in the official classification in March of this year, Anthony Mundine and Gennady Golovkin were picked as the candidates for the 160-pound belt.
On March 5, 2010, Richard Simon, legal representative of Golovkin, said his fighter was available to challenge the world belt and on April 19 the Championship Committee of the WBA called a purse bid for Mundine and Golovkin .
Epic Sport Management in partnership with Top Rank, won the rights with a bid of $1,210,000 million. However, Mundine decided not to fight.
On July 1, 2010, Golovkin's representatives requested to fight for the middleweight championship on July 31 in Mexico, but the request wasn't granted until August 14 when he fought against Milton Nunez, whom he beat.
