By Edward Chaykovsky
Abel Sanchez, who trains WBC/IBO/IBF/WBA middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (36-0, 33KOs), finds it very ironic that WBO Billy Joe Saunders is making a lot of noises regarding a potential showdown - but then schedules a fight for October 29th in Manchester.
Golovkin was in action last Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London. He went up against IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook, who was moving up in weight by thirteen pounds to take the fight. Golovkin took a lot of punches during the contest, but closed the show and stopped Brook in the fifth.
Saunders' next opponent has not been set, but his fight takes place as part of the Tyson Fury-Wladimir Klitschko II undercard.
Golovkin is looking to fight against at the end of the year. The WBA recently ordered him to fight mandatory challenger Daniel Jacobs - but whether or not that fight will happen is anyone's guess. Even Sanchez has no idea if they will be capable of securing Jacobs, Saunders, or someone of that caliber for their third fight of the year.
"Daniel Jacobs is the mandatory and has been ordered by the WBA to face Gennady. Whether that fight can be put together, I don’t know, it’s up to Tom Loeffler and the Herman brothers. BJ Saunders is talking all kinds of smack about fighting Golovkin, yet he schedules a fight for October," Sanchez told On The Ropes Boxing Radio.
"It’s difficult to say who can be next until Tom and the people who are in charge of those fighters get together and discuss it and come up with a plan. I don’t know, I wish I could tell you that we’re fighting so and so, but I know we are fighting before the end of the year, hopefully it’s in late November or early December, but against who, I don’t know."
