By Steve Kim

In the past K2 Promotions has placated the likes of Miguel Cotto and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez by allowing certain fights to take place and taking step-aside fees as they agreed to not enforce Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin's position as the mandatory challenge (which he earned by way of winning the WBC interim middleweight title back in 2014 against Marco Antonio Rubio.)

As Cotto and Alvarez fought last November, K2 and Golovkin agreed to allowed that fight to take place and afterwards entered into an agreement with Alvarez - who beat Cotto and captured the WBC belt - where both he and 'Canelo' would take another fight before the first half of 2016 before entering into negotiations for a fight in the fall.

If Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs) does not agree to face Golovkin (34-0, 31KOs) after his May 7th bout versus Amir Khan (and this is assuming he wins) he will be forced to hand over his title to Golovkin.

And the days of cutting deals are over for them. They either get the fight with Alvarez in the fall or get the WBC strap.

"Yeah [no more deals]," stated Tom Loeffler, the managing director of K2 Promotions.

"It doesnt make sense. I mean, we agreed to allow Cotto-'Canelo' to take place. It was a favor to the WBC because they wanted to have that fight sanctioned. It was one of the biggest fights in boxing and Miguel Cotto was the middleweight champion. So we had actually agreed to allow that fight to go on. 'Canelo' had asked for one defense, which he's doing May 7th.

"But after that, at some point it doesn't make sense anymore. So Gennady has earned his right to fight for the WBC title or to just get the WBC title as the interim champion."

Golovkin (34-0, 31 KO's) defends his WBA, IBO and IBF belts this Saturday night at the Forum in Inglewood, California versus Dominick Wade.

Steve Kim is the news editor for krikya360.com.