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Former junior middleweight champion, and now top middleweight contender, Demetrius Andrade (25-0, 16 KOs) - and his team - have pushed hard to replace Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez as the opponent for IBF, WBC, WBA, IBO champion Gennady Golovkin on May 5th.
Eric Gomez, the president of Golden Boy Promotions has advised BoxingScene.com that Spike O'Sullivan is no longer in the running to face unified middleweight champion Gennady Gololvkin, on May 5th. Gomez explained to BoxingScene - "Ultimately, short time, short money. Two negatives don't make a positive, here. So he's not going to do the fight. He'd have three weeks to get ready for Golovkin and he wants to win.
While there is speculation that IBF, WBC, WBA, IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) may end up not fighting on May 5th, Tom Loeffler, the head of GGG Promotions, insists that he is still working on securing a fight for the unified middleweight champion on that date.
Currently Shawn Porter (28-2-1, 17 KOs) is in limbo as he waits for the World Boxing Council to make a ruling on their welterweight title. The WBC champion at 147, Keith Thurman (who also has the WBA title), has been sidelined again for the time being. Thurman has been out of the ring since last March, when he won a twelve round split decision over Danny Garcia to unify the WBC, WBA world titles.
Julian Williams scored a decisive twelve round victory over the brash Nathaniel Gallimore, in a Showtime televised fight which took place last Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It's his third consecutive victory since losing to then IBF world champion Jermall Charlo in December of 2016.
Coming into their bout, Nathaniel Gallimore (20-1-1, 17 KOs) has been bold and boisterous as he readies to face Julian Williams (24-1-1, 15 KOs) at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in a bout that will lead off Saturday night's Showtime broadcast.
So with Keith Thurman pulling out of his scheduled return to the ring on May 19th with a hand injury, the likes of Shawn Porter are now forced to wait even longer to fight for the WBC welterweight title. Porter, who lost a narrow decision to Thurman in the summer of 2016, defeated Andre Berto last year in what was sanctioned as a WBC final eliminator for a mandatory title shot.
WBC/WBA welterweight titlist Keith Thurman (22-0, 22 KOs) has not fought since defeating Danny Garcia last March at the Barclay Center but has been idle for over a year now. After the win over Garcia, Thurman underwent elbow surgery and then elected to take some time off after getting married.
WBA/IBO super welterweight titlist Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) attempts to unify his belt against IBF belt-holder Jarret Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs) at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in what is the featured attraction on Showtime this Saturday night.
It was announced earlier this afternoon that Saul Alvarez would be pulling out of his May 5th rematch against Gennady Golovkin. Alvarez is scheduled to appear before the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) regarding his positive tests for clenbuterol.