Gennady Golovkin's Next Fight: GGG Comments on Facing Canelo vs. Cotto Winner

Gennady Golovkin (34-0) is the most unstoppable force in boxing, and he proved that again Saturday night in front of a packed house at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The IBF, WBA and interim WBC titleholder defeated David Lemieux (34-3) by eighth-round technical knockout. According to ESPN Stats & Info, Golovkin has now knocked out 21 consecutive opponents while stringing together 15 straight middleweight title defenses.

According to ESPN.com's Brian Campbell, Golovkin outclassed Lemieux while setting himself apart from the rest of his middleweight peers:

"We are building a global star with GGG, and our goal is to keep promoting him on a global level," K2 Promotions managing director Tom Loeffler said, per ESPN.com's Dan Rafael.

With Saturday's convincing result in hand, Golovkin and the boxing world will now turn to the champion's next opponent in the middleweight division. According to Rafael, Golovkin will have to fight the winner of the November clash between Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto.

"I want all the belts, now I have two," Golovkin said, per Yahoo Sports' Kevin Iole. "[I want] the winner of Cotto-Canelo, for sure."

But as the Los Angeles Times' Lance Pugmire relayed following the fight, questions have cropped up regarding Cotto's willingness to fight such a stout opponent: 

Elsewhere, Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix passed along encouraging words from Oscar De La Hoya regarding a prospective fight with Alvarez: 

According to Rafael, Golovkin told reporters during his post-fight press conference that if he can't come to an agreement with the Cotto-Alvarez winner, he would be game to fight the winner of the Dec. 19 showdown between Andy Lee and Billy Joe Saunders.

Taking recent results and tactical tendencies into account, Golovkin would face his stiffest test yet if Alvarez is able to take care of Cotto.

Fighter	W	L	D	KOs	Last 5 Fights
Canelo Alvarez	45	1	1	32	4-1
Miguel Cotto	40	4	0	33	3-2

"Golovkin is aggressive and heavy-handed, while Alvarez is a strong counterpuncher with power of his own and respectable, if not Mayweather-level, speed," Bleacher Report's Lyle Fitzsimmons wrote. "Such a blend almost guarantees an action fight while almost equally ensures that one of the fighters won't be around for the final bell."

Conversely, Cotto isn't a shifty presence who can parlay speed and power to keep Golovkin off-balance.

And while Cotto has responded to back-to-back losses against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Austin Trout with consecutive wins over Delvin Rodriguez, Sergio Gabriel Martinez and Daniel Geale, none of those fighters packs power punches like Golovkin does. 

But as GGG's words have indicated, he seems interested in squaring off against the best fighters the sport has to offer. That means a matchup with Canelo—who has dispatched every opponent except Mayweather—could offer boxing the super showdown it deserves.