The biggest fight of 2018 seems to be on the cards, RING lineal world middleweight champion, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (49-1-2) will once again lock horns with unified undefeated WBA, IBF, IBO and WBC world middleweight champion, Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin (37-0-1) on May in Las Vegas.
Golden Boy President, Eric Gomez has now confirmed to the LA Times that contracts have been exchanged and there are majorly important lingering details to negotiate anymore.
“We’ve exchanged contracts,” Gomez told the Los Angeles Times.
“We’ve gone through three revisions. I’m hoping for the last revision [Thursday night or Friday] and we’ll see. All the major points have been worked out.”
“There (are) some details that are important, but they’re not the major points.”
However, Gomez did share that unlike the first fight, for this rematch there is rematch clause which will bind a fighter to a third fight.
There’s no denying the fighting spirit. After successfully defending his Middleweight Championship twice in 2017, @GGGboxing was named fighter of the year by the @WBCBoxing. Thank you for continuing to inspire us GGG. Here’s to fighting for it in 2018! #GGG#Chivas#FightForItpic.twitter.com/Rnh7st2PXb
— Chivas Regal US (@ChivasRegalUS) January 12, 2018
On the topic of a rematch clause, Gomez added, “It’s going to be another great fight, so it’ll likely be a natural to do another rematch. But it’s not in the agreement.”
“We want to concentrate on getting this [second fight] done and then we can talk about a third fight later.”
As you might expect, Gomez believes Alvarez will win their rematch convincingly to take Golovkin’s IBF, IBO and WBA titles.
Golovkin also owns the WBC title, but Alvarez isn’t expected to pay a sanctioning fee to fight for it due to his well-documented dispute with the Mexico City-based organization.
Eric Gomez tells me the #CaneloGGG2 rematch is 98% complete. A#he tells me a announcement is imminent.
— FIGHT HUB MARCOS (@heyitsmarcosv) January 11, 2018
“I know Canelo’s going to win,” Gomez said. “I think Canelo figured him out in the last three rounds. Look at the fight.”
“Canelo handled [Golovkin] those last three rounds.”
“This time around, Canelo’s going to have an easier time with him. Not an easy fight, but he has the experience now and he wants this fight.”
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