Once ggg unifies what will canelo do?

[satiev1]

If ggg holds all the belts and canelo can't make 154 anymore, what will the excuses be now? He won't have anywhere to hide anymore. He'll be the guy fighting at 160 for non title fights. All roads will lead to ggg. Golden boy know this so that's why they don't want the saunders fight to happen. If it does, canelo has no choice but to fight ggg or be a laughing stock. GB hopes ggg dosen't face saunders meanline they come up with a new offer every 6 months. 10 million, 15 million, flat fee, no fight in between, etc.....

[animelive]

Canelo already showed fans he doesn't care about titles by dropping the WBC belt and handing it over to Golovkin rather than having to fight him. He's fighting Chavez jr in a non-title fight next. He only cares about making money not making history.

His options will run low and surely unified champ is a lucrative title.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

He'll make money while GGG fizzes out as the man who turned down 15 million dollar to fight canelo.

[Redd Foxx]

In case you aren't aware of recent events, Canelo has nothing to be scared of any more

[original zero]

In case you aren't aware of recent events, Canelo has nothing to be scared of any more

danny jacobs would destroy canelo.

[Beercules]

Fight at 164.5 forever

[Shaolin Sword]

[Scipio2009]

If ggg holds all the belts and canelo can't make 154 anymore, what will the excuses be now? He won't have anywhere to hide anymore. He'll be the guy fighting at 160 for non title fights. All roads will lead to ggg. Golden boy know this so that's why they don't want the saunders fight to happen. If it does, canelo has no choice but to fight ggg or be a laughing stock. GB hopes ggg dosen't face saunders meanline they come up with a new offer every 6 months. 10 million, 15 million, flat fee, no fight in between, etc.....

Alvarez is still the sport's biggest current star, basically beyond the belts at this point. You add that he'd still have the Golden Boy ****zine middleweight belt (unifying all of the belts, in my opinion, establishes a new lineage at the weight), and he'd likely still do what he's been doing. Take on the biggest fights possible and the biggest events possible.

Alvarez vs David Lemieux (after the performance against a fading Curtis Stevens) is now the type of explosive fight that would entice MGM Resorts to host, Willie Monroe Jr's style still sucks (and the beef being what it is), but Alvarez vs Jacobs/Khurtsidze/Monroe Jr are the types of potential fights that Alvarez could likely sell out NYC with.

You add that Saul Alvarez just got 50k people to come see him fight an unknown fighter in the US, at AT&T Stadium, and he's basically at the point where he can fight anyone and do massive business in TX, all while owing no obligations to anyone (likely until he decides that he wants to challenge for a belt at 168lbs).

Golovkin could hold all of the belts, but that also means that he'll have to fulfill his obligations; Khurtsidze is currently owed a title shot by the WBO, Jermall Charlo and Sergiy Derevyanchenko are likely 1-2 fights away from being owed shots by the WBC and IBF, respectively and, with the Jacobs fight having happened, the WBA's clock has already started and Hassan N'Dam is their lead challenger.

While Golovkin is left to simply cycle through his mandatories (none of the four possible fights mentioned are earnestly PPV fights, whether they end up on PPV or not), Alvarez is simply left chasing the biggest, most marketable fights that he can make at whatever weight he wants (keeping to his 2 PPV/1 regular HBO schedule).

Alvarez doesn't thirst after the trinkets the way Golovkin does, so Golovkin having all of the shiny trinkets isn't really going to change this for Alvarez.

[Ce1ska]

Move up to SCaneloMW and drain boxers.

[Scipio2009]

His options will run low and surely unified champ is a lucrative title.

not when you can still fight "Zurdo" Ramirez, for a title in a third weight class, at AT&T Stadium.

Alvarez fights Chavez Jr this coming May(PPV), can have either the Cotto or Chavez Jr rematches in September(PPV), can fight David Lemieux/Willie Monroe Jr in January(HBO), have a spectacle fight against Timothy Bradley in May 2018(PPV), fight for the WBO 168lb title against Zurdo Ramirez in Texas in September 2018(PPV), and fight a tickover fight January 2019 (HBO) all before even starting to sweat Golovkin.

With the early notes coming from Golovkin-Jacobs, folks are most definitely overstating the lucrativeness of fighting Golovkin, even with all of the trinkets.

Golovkin-Jacobs, if the initial info is to be believed, will end up doing comparable business to what Ward-Kovalev did (more money at the live gate, but significantly less money on PPV).