The report said Golovkin’s camp was expected to greenlight the bout in “the next few days”, noting there was no rematch clause for a third fight in the agreement.

“It’s going to be another great fight, so it’ll likely be a natural to do another rematch, but it’s not in the agreement,” promoter Eric Gomez told the Los Angeles Times at a workout for welterweight title fighter Lucas Matthysse in Indio, California, east of Los Angeles.

“We want to concentrate on getting this (second Álvarez-Golovkin fight) done and then we can talk about a third fight later,” added Gomez, president of Golden Boy Promotions.

Undefeated Golovkin, who was making his Las Vegas debut, and Álvarez fought to a draw in a September 16 thriller that lived up to its hype as a showdown between the top two middleweights in the world.

Kazakhstan’s Golovkin, 35, came away from the bout with a record of 37-0-1 with 33 wins inside the distance and kept his World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association, and International Boxing Federation belts.

Both he and 27-year-old Álvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) said they wanted a rematch.