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Opinion: ‘GGG’ Situation Highlights Boxing’s Matchmaking Problem

Certified knockout artist and current WBA (Super), IBO, IBF and interim WBC middleweight titleholder Gennady “GGG” Golovkin has his eyes set on big fights in 2016; and he could clearly use them considering that his pay-per-view numbers for his October fight against David Lemieux didn’t exactly set the world on fire.

The fight everyone wants to see is “GGG”-Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. However, Team Canelo isn’t quite ready for that fight to happen yet despite Alvarez holding the WBC title and Golovkin being his mandatory challenger. A deal was struck that would allow both “GGG” and “Canelo” to take a fights this spring in hopes of staging the highly anticipated battle in September.