By Rick Reeno

Things are certainly heating up between the respective teams of WBA/IBO middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) and WBA super middleweight king Andre Ward (28-0, 15KOs).

In a Friday night article on krikya360.com , Roc Nation executive Michael Yormark, who promotes Ward, lashed out at Golovkin's promoter, Tom Loeffler of K2 Promotions - regarding Team GGG's statements regarding a potential fight with Ward.

In a video interview (and article) that ran a few days ago on BoxingScene, Golovkin's trainer, Abel Sanchez, called Ward "a liar"; when discussing Ward's position that Golovkin and his team are avoiding him. That wasn't the first or last interview where Sanchez branded Ward a liar.

Attorney Josh Dubin, who represents Ward, was offended by Sanchez's comments and intends to take action if those type of comments continue.  

"Andre is a man and a professional fighter of the highest integrity, so when he sees or hears these comments or we see or hear these comments - 99% of the time we just ignore them and just chalk it up to people just trying to use his name to promote their own event. And we understand that and it's fine if they want to do that," Dubin explained to krikya360.com.

"But Abel crossed a line when he called him a liar. I'm not going to stand by and allow someone to insult my friend and my client's integrity and professionalism by calling him a liar when it completely untrue."

"Abel Sanchez would be well served to get himself an attorney, because if he continues to make comments like that or doesn't retract what he said - he'll be walking out one day to take his 'Little G' on a run and there will be a process server standing there to hand him a lawsuit. And if he doesn't think that's the case, he can keep on making the comments that he's making and then we'll see what happens."

At this point, a Ward-Golovkin showdown is very unlikely. The two fighters are going in completely different directions.

On October 17th, Golovkin will face IBF champion David Lemieux in a unification on HBO Pay-Per-View from New York's Madison Square Garden. If Golovkin wins, he will become the mandatory challenger to the winner of Miguel Cotto vs. Saul "Canelo" Alvarez - who battle for the WBC middleweight title on November 21 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

Ward is expected to make a full jump to light heavyweight, with his debut at 175 taking place on the Cotto-Canelo HBO Pay-Per-View undercard. The plan for Ward would be an HBO Pay-Per-View fight with WBO/WBA/IBF light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev in 2016.