He’s solid, Mexican and a risk. A win over Zurdo would open up new challenges after the middleweight division. If he loses, he still has his titles and can unify vs Saunders in September.
Ya'll F@gs realize Golovkin has mandatory responsibilities to fulfill as champion right??
Not now. At least the WBC approved an optional defense. And I doubt the others can order anything on a month notice. Canelo's fight was an optional anyway since Canelo is no champion.
He is the middleweight champion. Why should he disadvantage himself by fighting a super middleweight champion? He is one fight away from tying the record of 20 successful title defenses and he is almost 36 years old. He should make a title defense against the best middleweight available. Assuming he wins that fight he should fight Saunders next. That would give him a chance to be the only completely unified champion in boxing and break Hopkin's record of 20 successful title defenses if he beats Saunders. Zurdo has good opponents available in his own weight class including other 168 pound champions..
Ideally they should just scrap the date and fight Saunders in June and hope for a short suspension of Canelo and fight him (after 6 months of testing) in September.
I doubt that anyone other than HBO is going to make a decision on this. They are the one's who are taking it in the shorts on this no matter what they do.
Not a option don’t know why people even bring it up
He’s with Arum and a ESPN fighter l. Arum wouldn’t let him fight on HBO
Plus I think they have him fighting another stiff in June or something