Golovkin's Trainer: GGG's Main Focus is Cotto's Belt

By Edward Chaykovsky

WBA/IBO/WBC-interim middleweight champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (32-0, 29KOs) is a man on a mission and he wants the green belt that is currently around the waist of Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32KOs).

Last December the World Boxing Council issued an order that allowed Cotto to make a voluntary defense before his mandatory obligation to face Golovkin. Golovkin returned two weeks ago and battered Martin Murray over eleven rounds. Cotto is scheduled to return in June.

Abel Sanchez, who trains Golovkin, wants his boxer to get that mandatory shot. He says GGG is capable of being ready to fight Cotto as early as June. Cotto is still without a finalized opponent, with names like Tim Bradley, Brandon Rios and Cornelius 'K9' Bundrage being mentioned as opponents.

"I want to see what he wants to see and what that is, is a unification fight. I think that the public deserves it, boxing itself deserves it. Right now his main focus is the WBC title, that title is held by Cotto. I don’t know if Cotto will fight us this year, he’s mandated to fight us by the WBC, he’s got one optional which I think is supposed to happen on May or June and then after that he’s supposed to fight us," Sanchez told On The Ropes Boxing Radio .

"At this point Cotto doesn’t have an opponent for May or June, so we’re ready and prepared to make some kind of arrangement and make some kind of concession so that we can fight him in June. He wants to fight on the Puerto Rican parade or the Puerto Rican day, we’re more than happy to accommodate."