Saunders, weight change and IBF belt. Promoter Golovkin Announced Plans After Revenge With Canelo – Boxing News

Boxers will find themselves in the arena of T-Mobile at Las Vegas (Nevada, USA) where exactly one year ago the fight took place. ended with a controversial match. The HBO television channel will show a duel through the Pay Per View (PPV) system.

Golovkin, however, had a back-up plan in case of vengeance breaking with Canelo. The GGG team accepted in August with WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders (26-0, 12 KOs), but this option was not helpful.

"We agreed on all the conditions for the fight, Golovkin would have been happy to fight with Saunders to unify the belts," Leffler said in an interview with IFL TV. "It would also be a big fight, but not as financially attractive as the Canelo return match, which the fans wanted to see.I called Frank Warren (Saunders promoter) and I said," If the revenge breaks, let's do a unification fight. "Maybe this fight (with Saunders) will take place in the future.Now Billy is fighting with Andrade, we'll see what he's doing The winner of this fight will be an excellent candidate for the GGG, but now he is focusing on Canelo

At the same time, the promoter of Golovkin has not ruled out that the Kazakh can take advantage of it. magnitude to fight IBF champion James DeGale (24-2-1, 14 KOs) .In addition, Leffler named the names of other potential rivals.

"Charlo is a great option, as the winner of the fight Derevyanchenko – Jacobs or the strongest in the pair Saunders – Andrade. In 168 books, there are David Benavides, James DiGeil and Gilberto Ramirez. It could be a good fight for Golovkin. He sees no problem climbing 168 pounds and fighting with James in Britain – local fans love him, he's already beaten there on the O2 Arena with Kell Brook. Gennady had a good time there and I think he could return to Britain with a sensational fight, "adds Leffler.

Earlier, WBO named Saunders a mandatory challenger in the person of Demetrius Andrade (25-0, 16 KOs). The boxers did not agree on the fight at the appointed time, after which the organization announced a call for promotional offers

As for the Ukrainian Sergey Derevyanchenko (12-0, 10 KOs) and American Daniel Jacobs (34-2, 29 KOs), they will challenge the vacant IBF middleweight champion title, which in June this year was chosen from Golovkin .