Floyd Mayweather Fight News: Gennady Golovkin's Coach Responds to Mayweather's Offer for 'GGG' to Fight Andre Ward
Retired undefeatead boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently teased about a possibility of coming out of retirement and fighting fellow undefeated fighter Gennady Golovkin.
Mayweather, however, stipulated that the only way he would agree to do so was if "GGG" would be willing to face former lineal middleweight world champion Andre Ward.
"He's gotta call out Andre Ward, beat Andre Ward, then I'll fight him," Mayweather said in a recent interview with Fight Hype.
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Golovkin and Ward have been reportedly in talks to face each other since the latter part of 2015. In September, Ward even ripped on the Kazakh knockout artist for rejecting the offer.
For their part, Golovkin's promoter Tom Loeffler responded to Ward in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, stating that the fight "would've been a bad deal to take" as they demand more than 50% of pay-per-view numbers.
Loeffler also went on to point out how Ward has "barely fought" outside the state of California.
As for Mayweather's demands, it was Golovkin's coach Abel Sanchez who issued a response. In a report by Boxingscene, Golovkin was said to have agreed to face the likes of Carl Froch, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Bernard Hopkins and James DeGeale at 168 pounds, but his team wanted a fight against Ward at a 164-pound catch-weight.
Ward, however, rejected the proposal.
The potential fight against Mayweather, on the other hand, is being targeted at 154-pounds. And for Sanchez, moving up and down in weight would be a "stupid" move.
"Why would he come up to 168, and then come down to 154? Do you see what he weighed the other day? At 164," Sanchez said. "When he captures all of the middleweight titles, then we can talk about moving up to 168," he added.
Golovkin is currently slated to face fellow undefeated fighter Dominic Wade on April 23rd, at the Forum in California. He will be defending his IBO, WBA, and IBA world middleweight titles, as well as his WBC interim 160-pound title.
