By Miguel Maravilla

Still no opponent for WBC/WBA/IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin. The Golovkin Team updated the press today. GGG says he wants to fight May 5. No PPV now, regular HBO. Promoter Tom Loeffler says there are a lot of moving parts, not just getting an opponent and venue, but getting approval from the three sanctioning bodies. IBF mandatory Sergiy Derevyanchenko might be the best option, but the short promotional time frame would be disadvantageous for GGG and Derevyanchenko to be properly compensated. “At some point, we’re going to run out of time…April 18th will answer a lot of questions.”

Gennady Golovkin: “May 5th. Biggest Day. Nobody wants to fight with me. Are you serious?”

Tom Loeffler: “There is no official announcement. Gennady has mentioned to me he wants to fight May 5th. We’re under the gun to save May 5th.

“Gennady knows the importance of fighting May 5th. There are a lot of fighters that have called willing to fight Gennady. Vanes has expressed interest and he is from LA. We will see what we can work out.

“We are trying to come up with solutions. If there is an amicable deal with the IBF without Golovkin’s being stripped. The main goal is if Canelo is available for September. We don’t want to risk Gennady’s future. He wants to fight Canelo as soon as he able to get back in the ring. It’s the biggest fight in the sport of boxing,”

More Golovkin: “I feel great and I want to fight May 5th but this is a crazy situation for boxing.

When asked how confident he feels about fighting Golovkin replied, “I don’t know.”

HBO continues to express interest for Golovkin’s next fight along with potential host sites Carson, California’s Stub Hub Center, MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and New York’s Madison Square Garden.

More info coming

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