Bernard Hopkins will have his hands full tonight with Sergey Kovalev but if “The Alien” wins the fight he has his eyes set on Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin.
Oscar De La Hoya, Hopkin’s trainer & head of Golden Boy Promotions, spoke on the possibility:
“I think it would be an interesting fight, one of the biggest fights of the next year, but there are a lot of things that would need to be agreed to,” Loeffler said. “I don’t think it would be realistic for Gennady to fight above 168. Other than that, it would be a huge fight.”
“If Hopkins wins Saturday — I mean, when he wins Saturday — he wants Golovkin next,” De La Hoya exclusively told Yahoo Sports. “I’m serious. He wants big fights and that’s a huge fight.”
Golovkin’s trainer Abel Sanchez would love to fight Hopkins:
“From my standpoint, I would love it,” said Sanchez, who turns 59 on Saturday. “I think it’s a good fight for Gennady. We’d like to negotiate and hopefully get it at 169, 170, but if we have to fight full light heavyweight [175 pounds], no problem. That all has to be talked about and negotiated and everything, but if they ask me as his trainer ‘Can he do it?’ and ‘Do you like the fight?’ I’d say yes to both of them. No question.”
