The WBC have been promoting Golovkin non-stop for almost the past year. They have been pushing him more than any other fighter and he does not even hold the WBC title. They went out of their way to declare him the mandatory challenger for their title before the Rubio fight, unheard of to make the champion of another sanctioning body a mandatory, and confirmed it by making him interim champion after the Rubio fight. After his last fight in Monaco, Suleiman personally went in the ring to put on a WBC t-shirt on GGG. GGG has been featured on the WBC website on numerous occasions over the past year, most recently with huge congratulations for him retaining the interim title and being the mandatory challenger.
Now does anyone think that after all that promotion the WBC will suddenly change their mind and tell GGG "Sorry, you have to step aside for Floyd or Canelo to have a title shot. Yes, we know that neither of them have earned a middleweight title shot, and that we have promoted you non-stop for the past year, but that is our decision."
If they do that, they destroy whatever dignity they have rebuilt that Mauricio has gained since taking over from his father. They make themselves look like fools and destroy all the good will they have built with the other sanctioning bodies in the goal of title unification.
Not gonna happen. Cotto defends against GGG or he will be stripped.
Thanks, you just saved me the trouble of making those points myself!
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