WBO, IBO, and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is certain to get a chance at unifying all the middleweight belts after the World Boxing Council mandated the winner between Miguel Cotto and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to defend their title against “GGG.” A match between either Cotto or Canelo would put Golovkin’s undefeated streak to test, but according to his trainer Abel Sanchez, the Kazakh boxing sensation will only fight at 160 pounds.

Alvarez revealed that Golovkin’s priority is to conquer the middleweight class by unifying all the belts, rather than chasing a potential superfight against Cotto or Canelo at catchweights of less than 160 pounds. Alvarez explained that whoever wins in the Canelo-Cotto clash on Nov. 21, Golovkin is sure to get his hands at the WBC title, with both fighters only open in fighting the Kazakh boxer in a catchweight-stipulated bout.

"Gennady is not after Cotto or Canelo," Sanchez said, reports Sky Sports . "Gennady is after the middleweight belt and he wants all four of them, the major ones.”

Cotto has already told in past interviews that he will have his opponents subject to catchweight stipulations. The Puerto Rican’s bout against Canelo is at catchweight of 155 pounds. Canelo, on the other hand, told SB Nation’s Bloody Elbow that he is not yet ready to fight a 160-pounder like Golovkin, which suggests that whoever wins next month would probably relinquish the title to the undefeated Kazakh.

"'Canelo' hasn't got a leg to stand on if he's going to demand to fight at catchweight," Sanchez added. "If he can't fight at 160 pounds then he can vacate the belt and we can fight somebody else."

Golovkin defeated David Lemieux via eighth-round TKO earlier this month in a sold-out Madison Square Garden, although the pay-per-view numbers generated by the fight was not enough to entice big-name boxers to fight “GGG.” But despite low PPV numbers, Golovkin is certainly on his way in completing his goal of conquering the middleweight class with Cotto and Canelo trying to avoid a 160-pound bout.

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