By Vadim Pushkin

WBA (Super), IBO,IBF and WBC (Interim) middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin is visiting his homeland. The fighter held a press conference in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

Golovkin fielded plenty of questions regarding his future and the most popular question of the bunch was regarding a possible unification with WBC middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.

Golovkin became the mandatory challenger after winning the WBC-interim belt with a knockout of Marco Antonio Rubio in 2014. The champion at the time, Miguel Cotto, was granted a voluntary defense against Daniel Geale last June. He was then given another voluntary defense against Canelo last November.

Cotto was stripped of the WBC title a few days prior to the Canel bout, because the Puerto Rican fighter refused to pay the WBC's requested sanctioning fee amount. 

Canelo won a twelve round decision over Cotto to capture the vacant belt.

After some negotiating between the parties, the World Boxing Council approved the plan for Canelo and Golovkin to take interim-fights - as long as they faced each other in the fall.

Golovkin will return on April 23rd against an opponent to be determined. His team is reportedly speaking with undefeated IBF mandatory challenger Dominic Wade. Canelo is booked for the date of May 7th, also without a set opponent.

Should the two of them win, the WBC expects them to fight in September - likely on the 17th as part of Mexican Independence Day weekend.

If Canelo does not comply with the order, he will be stripped and Golovkin will become the full WBC champion.

"I think there is a great possibility to have this fight this year. It is planned for September. So, right now we are waiting for September," Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs) told the local press.