The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee has ordered a mandatory bout between super middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and middleweight champion Erislandy Lara as part of the world title reduction plan.
Golovkin and Lara will have a month to reach an agreement for the fight, which ends on October 23. The winner of this fight will be the only WBA 160-pound champion.
The pioneering organization granted special permission to the Kazakh monarch to move up a division and fight Saúl Álvarez on September 17, with the condition that he would return to middleweight to face Lara and no other special permission would be granted.
The WBA has made the decision attached to said resolution and to rule C.11, which establishes that the champion must defend his championship against the official contender 120 days after winning the title.
“GGG” won the title on April 9 by defeating Ryota Murata, so the deadline expired on August 8 and he will have to face the Cuban in his next fight.
In case the teams do not reach an agreement or one of them refuses to do so, the fight will be sent to auction with a split of 75% for Golovkin and 25% for Lara.
