Canelo Alvarez’s return to the ring is currently scheduled for early May 2018. Who he’ll touch gloves with remains the question.
The top priority for Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is still a rematch between Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin to settle the controversial draw decision on Sept. 16.
“We’re talking and we are also going to meet soon with Canelo,” De La Hoya told ESPN.com. “But that’s the fight that has to happen next. The fight everyone wants is GGG-Canelo next and that’s what I will push for.”
Some thought De La Hoya would aim for next September to schedule GGG-Canelo II while he promotes a Dec. 16 fight between middleweights Billy Joe Saunders and David Lemieux.
Earlier this week De La Hoya said (via boxingscene.com) that Glolovkin ”is on the first place on our list, but so much depends on the negotiations.”
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler had said he wants the rematch details worked out by December. If the an agreement isn’t reached he’s prepared to schedule another fighter.
"We can’t wait forever for Canelo to decide,” Loeffler told RingTV (via boxingnews24.com). “If it gets to a certain point, we have arenas ready on hold and I need a contingency plan and contingency opponents as well. Canelo is clearly Plan A, and the priority, but we also have a Plan B and C in place in order that Gennady’s career isn’t held up.”
