By Steve Kim

Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin successfully satisfied his mandatory obligation of the middleweight title on Saturday night, this time against his IBF mandatory challenger, Dominic Wade, who was stopped in two rounds. Golovkin also happens to be the WBA 'super' champion at that weight class. The 'regular' version of that belt is held by Danny Jacobs.

Soon, Jacobs (31-1, 28KOs) could be in line to face Golovkin (35-0, 32KOs).

"He is the mandatory for Golovkin," said Gilberto Mendoza Jr. the head of the WBA, who was at the Golovkin card this weekend.

"The thing we're trying to work out is I don't want any controversy with the WBC regarding the 'Canelo' (Saul Alvarez) situation. So we're trying to sit down with Mauricio (Sulaiman) and work it out."

What Mendoza is referring to is the WBC mandate that the winner of Alvarez and Amir Khan (who meet on May 7th in Las Vegas) must face Golovkin next or be stripped of the title. At which point Golovkin will be the full blown WBC belt-holder.

Mendoza, who says he wants to pare down the number of titlists in his organization, continued - "I have to work on the mandatory as soon as possible. I don't want to interfere with that one. The good thing is we're going to have two good contenders for 'Triple G' but I don't know exactly the plans but I'll have a meeting with Mauricio and perhaps wait a week and then send a letter of negotiations to them."

Whenever the WBC situation is cleared up, it's at that point the WBA will react accordingly.

"We used to work with rotations,"said Mendoza of unified champions and their mandatory obligations."It's supposed to be our turn, right now."

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.