Jamie Munguia returned to Tijuana this week with a victory that his promoter hopes will finally lead to a fight with Gennadiy Golovkin.
Promoter Fernando Beltran said that Golovkin is “an ideal opponent’’ for Munguia.
“(GGG) is already [37] years old, but he is no longer the destroyer that he was three or four years ago,’’ Beltran said at a news conference welcoming Munguia home after his stoppage of Gary O’Sullivan last Saturday in San Antonio. “His reflexes are half-a-second or a second delayed, and the punches he receives are hurting him.
“I think that at this moment, it would be the fight that suits Jaime the most.”
A Munguia fight with GGG was discussed two years ago. But the Nevada State Athletic Commission said no, citing Munguia’s lack of experience against world-class middleweights. Munguia, trained by four-division champion Erik Morales, also was mentioned as a possible opponent for Canelo Alvarez.
The 23-year-old Mungia (35-0, 28 KOs) won a junior middleweight title, scoring a fourth-round stoppage of Sadam Ali on May 21, 2018 at Verona, N.Y. He defended the belt five times before moving up to middleweight for an 11th-round TKO of O’Sullivan.
“I’ll fight with whomever my promoter and my working team decide,’’ Munguia said at the news conference. “There are several options on the table, but we have to go step by step and see what is best for us.”