Hunter: Andre Ward Already Said He'd Fight Golovkin

By Edward Chaykovsky

One of the bigger matches that fans want to see is a future meeting between WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (27-0, 14KOs) and WBA/IBO/WBC interim-middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (31-0, 28KOs).

Golovkin is scheduled to defend his belts against Martin Murray on February 21 in Monaco. Ward has been inactive since November 2013, mostly due to an ongoing legal dispute with current promoter Goossen Promotions.

Virgil Hunter, trainer of Ward, says his boxer has already agreed - verbally - to face Golovkin - and says K2 Promotions, who promote the feared middleweight, are not looking to place their fighter in with Ward in the near future.

Golovkin is planning a move to 168 in the future, but only after he's cleaned out the middleweight division.

"He already stated he would fight Golovkin, but K2 Promotions has other plans, and K2 is doing a wonderful job with Golovkin, and I’m sure he fits into HBO’s plans. It’s quite obvious there is a lot of hype behind Gennady, justifiably so. What the network intends for him to be, he’s got a great opportunity to achieve that. So I don’t assume fighting Andre Ward would be a wise move for the plan they have because we could very well set him back because fans are very unforgiving after one fight," Hunter told On The Ropes Boxing Radio .

"When the day comes that hopefully things can be worked out, that can benefit everybody and take everything under consideration, we can continue to put on the great fights the people want to see. I think both those fights would be great for the public, Ward vs. Golovkin, Ward vs. Kovalev. Hopefully Andre fits into HBO’s plans of continuing to put on great fights."