By Victor Salazar
Miguel Cotto is the lineal middleweight champion of the world along with holding the WBC title. Gennady Golovkin might be the consensus best fighter in the division and is the WBA title holder. What else is there after? That was a question posed to head trainer Abel Sanchez, whose fighter Gennady Golovkin returns to the ring against a lesser known fighter in Willie Monroe Jr. If Golovkin is victorious and there’s no Miguel Cotto, where does Golovkin go?
Sanchez feels that there are still fights to be made even if those fighters are lesser than the level that Golovkin is on.
“Between Peter Quillin and Andy Lee, I mean I agreed with Gennady when he said that that fight was boring,” Sanchez told Boxingscene.com. Those guys are a level below but of course Lee has a title (WBO) and we would definitely go to Ireland because a fight like that would be huge.”
Sanchez wasn’t holding his tongue regarding Quillin. “I think Quillin took a step back. He could have finished Lee in the first but didn’t. I don’t even know if Peter can make the weight anymore but he has to build himself back again in my opinion”
The other alphabet title outside of the ones held by Cotto, Golovkin, and Lee, is the IBF title held by Hassan N’Dam. N’dam may be facing Canada’s David Lemieux sometime in June. Sanchez says his team is keeping a keen eye on the winner of that fight as well.
“I think if Lemieux wins, that’s a fight we would travel for to Canada,” Sanchez said. “It would be big business over there. Obviously if N’dam wins, we could make that fight here in the United States. Gennady has always wanted to unify and we have said we would move up and down for a big fight. But at 160, we want to hold all the belts.”