Via Adam Baskin: Jermall Charlo said he will be waiting to challenge the winner of match 3 between Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennadiy Golovkin 3 next September.
Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs) tried to battle Mexican star Canelo, but he turned down a huge offer and went in a different direction to get an ill-fated header against Dmitry Bivol.
Jermall has been waiting for a big fight during his 14-year professional career, and he is finally on the threshold of a big game that could make him a star.
Charlo will voluntarily defend his WBC middleweight belt this month against Maciej Sulecki on June 18 in the headlines on Showtime Championship Boxing at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.
After that, Charlo will freely face the winner Canelo-Golovkin III. Canelo, 31, is expected to play this December on DAZN, and that would be the ideal time for him to take on Charlo if he successfully overcomes Golovkin.
“We tried to make that fight happen. It didn’t happen,” Jermall Charlo told Fighthype on why his fight with Jaime Munguia failed.
It was no big deal that Charlo’s showdown with former WBO 154-lb champion Munguia fell through as it was a smaller matchup than winner Canelo-Golovkin 3.
“I want winners,” Charlo said when asked about his picks for the Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennadiy Golovkin III. “Whoever wins, give them to me,” said Jermall.
This fight could help Jermall overtake his twin brother Jermell, who has already surpassed him in career achievement to become the undisputed champion at the age of 154.
However, the guys Jermell had defeated in the junior middle class were nowhere near Canelo or Golovkin.
If Jermall can beat the winner of the Canelo-GGG 3 fight to become undisputed at 168, it will far surpass anything the Jermell twin has done in his career. me.
Jermell’a best victory went to these boxers: Brian Castano, Jeison Rosario, Tony Harrison, Erickson Lubin and Austin Trout.
“They give Canelo some money for Floyd Mayweather, and he didn’t take it. They can blame me all they want. I’m just a boxer, and I’m going to sit here and fight,” Jermall said of Canelo Alvarez turning down a big money offer to fight him.
“I will sit here and throw these hands no matter which way they go. I don’t know, man. I couldn’t even answer,” Jermall said.
As for Canelo’s refusal of the huge sums offered to him against Jermall Charlo it shows that he is nervous about joining that fight.
Not long ago, the World Boxing Council named Canelo the WBC Franchise middleweight champion as Jermall was his must-competitor and sighed on his neck. If Canelo hadn’t been worried about fighting Jermall, he wouldn’t have accepted the Franchise strap.
