Comments Thread For: Golovkin's Trainer Open To Facing Johnson in February

[Barcham]

I think you are right. A fight against Cotto/canelo, especially Cotto will take some time to make and if GGG fights in February it would push that fight into late 2016.

If GGG fights in Feb, it only gives him 2 months to train and go on a promotional tour for the bout if he were to face Canelo for Cinco de Mayo wknd. Not a good move in my opinion. It'll be cutting it too close.

The Cotto/Canelo fight is just 1 month away. Wait for the winner and put the pressure. That's what I advise he does.

There is no chance in hell that Golovkin is going to sit around for SEVEN MONTHS waiting for the Cotto - Canelo winner. He could fight Johnson in Feb and fight the WBC champ the weekend after with no problem at all. A three month break from Feb to May would be normal for Golovkin who is used to fighting four times per year.

Or maybe he should follow Ward's lead and look for a rookie fighter from a lower weight class in Australia and force him to move up to MW for a fight.

[RED REP]

Hold on, isn't Ward fighting on the undercard of Cotto - Canelo against a guy with 4 loses and not even 20 victories!? Hahaha

[NEETzsche]

i don't think k2 will do anything until at least 15 days after the cotto-canelo result. as someone mentioned above, they don't want a wilder-povetkin situation

[Ca$trO]

I would be happy with a GGG v Lara

[Barcham]

I would be happy with a GGG v Lara

Talk to Al Haymon about it.

[bojangles1987]

That would be a serious beating. I don't have a problem with him staying active since there's no way Cotto or Alvarez would want to fight when Golovkin will want to next, but I'd rather he try and get the Lee/Saunders winner in the ring.

Beating Johnson would be preemptive defense of a soon-to-be mandatory, so it's not a huge problem.

[SchoolTheseCats]

Talk to Al Haymon about it.

It's not an al haymon problem it's a HBO problem that banned his fighters from network

[The Big Dunn]

A glorified sparring session that gets GGG some heavy spending money and keeps him busy makes sense for his team. There is always an injury risk. Feels too close to the next fight but again, its Johnson.

Besides, while I think Canelo wins, if he loses, GGG isn't fighting on Cinco de Mayo weekend. Canelo will be in his comeback or we will have cotto/Floyd 2 at the new MGM.

[SchoolTheseCats]

That would be a serious beating. I don't have a problem with him staying active since there's no way Cotto or Alvarez would want to fight when Golovkin will want to next, but I'd rather he try and get the Lee/Saunders winner in the ring.

Beating Johnson would be preliminary defense of a soon-to-be mandatory, so it's not a huge problem.

Lee-Saunders fight in December so that won't happen for February either he mines well get his mando out way for ibf belt now cotto-canelo winner in May-June depending on who wins and lee fight if he wins close out year Saunders already stated he staying away from Golovkin

[The Big Dunn]

It's not an al haymon problem it's a HBO problem that banned his fighters from network

Barcham is just anti Haymon for whatever reasons. He could care less about the real impediments to a fight.