I would release this statement today:
In reply to the recent comments made by World Boxing Organization President Francisco Valcarcel, I would like to remind Mr Valcarel that when I recieved the offer from Roc Nation Sports, for a fight between Gennady Golovkin and Andre Ward, at 168 lbs, to take place in the summer of 2016, Gennady was in the position of mandatory challenger to the WBC MW title, and had been guaranteed a shot at the winner of the upcoming fight between Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez.
If Saul Alvarez had honoured the pledge he made to the WBC and to Gennady, he would have defended the WBC and lineal MW titles against Golovkin in either the spring or late summer of 2016, which was the same time frame as the one stipulated in the offer I recieved from Roc Nation. I therefore had no alternative but to reject that offer on Gennady's behalf.
In reply to the recent comments made by World Boxing Organization President Francisco Valcarcel, I would like to remind Mr Valcarel that when I recieved the offer from Roc Nation Sports, for a fight between Gennady Golovkin and Andre Ward, at 168 lbs, to take place in the summer of 2016, Gennady was in the position of mandatory challenger to the WBC MW title, and had been guaranteed a shot at the winner of the upcoming fight between Miguel Cotto and Saul Alvarez.
If Saul Alvarez had honoured the pledge he made to the WBC and to Gennady, he would have defended the WBC and lineal MW titles against Golovkin in either the spring or late summer of 2016, which was the same time frame as the one stipulated in the offer I recieved from Roc Nation. I therefore had no alternative but to reject that offer on Gennady's behalf.
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