If Khan defeats Alvarez, would he fight Golovkin?

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LAS VEGAS — Middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez is the heavy favorite to defeat Amir Khan, who is moving up from welterweight, when they meet at a catch weight of 155 pounds on Saturday night (HBO PPV, 9 ET) at the new T-Mobile Arena.

And should Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) win as most expect, he has been mandated to fight unified titleholder Gennady Golovkin, the mandatory challenger by virtue of his also holding an interim belt, next. Whether that would happen or not is up in the air because Mexico’s Alvarez and Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya have been evasive on whether they will honor their end of the deal they made with the WBC and Golovkin to fight in the fall. If they don’t, Alvarez is supposed to be stripped of his belt.

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TV lineup for the Golden Boy-promoted HBO PPV card on Saturday night (9 ET) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas:

•Middleweights: Canelo Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) vs. Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs), 12 rounds, for Alvarez’s …

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