With Miguel Cotto's emphatic fourth-round knockout of Daniel Geale this past weekend at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, the immediate focus turned to a fall showdown versus Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - in what would be one of the most anticipated fights of 2015.
But Cotto, who has the WBC middleweight title in his possession, still has an obligation to face Gennady "GGG" Golovkin, who is currently the WBC interim-champion based on his victory over Marco Antonio Rubio last October.
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If those are the terms, Cotto vacates the title, fights Canelo at 155 at some venue somewhere, and the sanctioning body miss out on their fee, to then sanction Golovkin vs Heiland instead.
Cotto- I'm not fighting canelo next.
Wbc-you are stripped.
Cotto-im fighting Floyd for the belt.
Wbc-ok, keep belt and leave sanctioning fee on the way out
GGG-where is the belt?
Wbc-cotto is fighting Floyd, sorry. Maybe you can get next after that.
GGG fans-waaaaaaah.
Loeffler is a naive if he believes that any agreement about the next fight in which the winner agreed to fight GGG means anything in this day and age. On June 10, 2016, we'll be here reading the same nonsense. Not to use a cliche, but this is boxing's version Lucy moving the football on Charlie Brown. And I find it to be intolerable. The WBC should just strip Cotto if his very next fight isn't against GGG. Naturally the WCB won't do anything about it.
Cotto- I'm not fighting canelo next.
Wbc-you are stripped.
Cotto-im fighting Floyd for the belt.
Wbc-ok, keep belt and leave sanctioning fee on the way out
GGG-where is the belt?
Wbc-cotto is fighting Floyd, sorry. Maybe you can get next after that.
GGG fans-waaaaaaah.
Roc Nation gonna work it out with Haymon? yeah, I don't think so
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