By Edward Chaykovsky
Talks are ongoing to for Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) to step aside from his mandatory shot at WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto.
The Puerto Rican star is looking to defense his world title this fall in a very high profile fight against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez of Mexico.
Golovkin, who holds the WBA/IBO titles, is not necessarily looking to fight Cotto - but actually wants to fight whoever holds the WBC title to unify the entire division.
Abel Sanchez, who trains Golovkin, wants Golovkin to get Cotto - who knocked out division ruler Sergio Martinez last year - but he feels Cotto wants nothing to do with his fighter.
"Gennady is the mandatory and the interim champion, but it does not appear that Miguel Cotto wants anything to do with him. But that’s ok, we want to fight for the WBC middleweight title and if Cotto vacates we’ll go for that. Right now Tom Loeffler and his managers, the Herman brothers, are hard at work trying to find us an opponent. I hope it’s one of the bigger names, whomever they come up with we’ll be training and preparing for," Sanchez told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.