By Edward Chaykovsky

Abel Sanchez, head trainer of WBC/WBA/IBO/IBF middleweight world champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs), has serious doubts that Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (47-1-1, 33KOs) will honor a verbal agreement that will see them fight in September of 2017.

The World Boxing Council ordered Canelo and Golovkin to fight each other earlier this year. Canelo held the WBC middleweight championship and Golovkin was his mandatory challenger.

Canelo made a voluntary defense when he knocked out Amir Khan in May, he accepted Golovkin's challenge and promised to begin negotiations the following day. The fight never happened and their negotiations never went anywhere. Canelo vacated the title, and Golovkin was installed as the full champion by the sanctioning body.  

Canelo is now dropping back to junior middleweight and takes on WBO 154-pound champion Liam Smith on September 17th at AT&T Stadium in Texas. Golovkin is back on September 10th at the O2 Arena in London, when he defends his titles against Kell Brook.

Sanchez predicts the fight will happen when Canelo feels Golovkin got old.

"I thought Canelo was never going to fight us, at least not now anyway. It may happen when Gennady is 60. For right now I didn't think he's going to fight us," Sanchez said to Fight Hub.

"I think it's a fight that the fans really want to see. I don't think it's a walkover fight. I think Canelo is a warrior, that he will get in there and fight and make Golovkin fight too. I think the business of boxing is why this fight is not happening. It's not happening today, it's not happening in September of this year and may not happen in September of next year - but its got nothing to do with [Canelo] not being ready. Its the business of boxing that I think they are basing their decision on."