Gennady Golovkin wants to unify middleweight titles in 2015

LOS ANGELES - Gennady Golovkin plans to stay active, no matter how bright his star shines.

While most fighters of his ilk compete just twice a year, GGG has designs on fighting four times in 2015.

The 33-year-old middleweight champion defeated Martin Murray by TKO in February and faces Willie Monroe Jr. on Saturday (10 p.m. ET) in the main event of HBO's World Championship Boxing from The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. But he has plenty more planned for the second half of the year.

"I remember (Julio Cesar) Chavez Sr. or a lot of great champions fighting four, five, six times per year. Why not? My sparring is harder than my fights," Golovkin said with a laugh during a sit-down with a small group of reporters. "I'm sparring four guys, 12 rounds in the mountains, like OK, I'm going to fight three or four rounds, easy work, easy day for me like that."

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Golovkin (32-0, 29 KOs) has maintained a torrid pace even now that he regularly fights on HBO. He competed four times in 2013 and three times last year.

"If everything goes the right way (Saturday), then potentially September and eventually December if everything goes according to schedule," said Tom Loeffler, Golovkin's promoter.

Golovin has yet to secure that elusive big fight and it's unlikely to materialize this year with Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto circling each other like sharks. However, GGG has a plan to bait them in next year.

"I want a unification fight. My goal is all the belts in the middleweight division first," said Golovkin, the WBA beltholder. "… Maybe Andy Lee, the WBO champion. Maybe David Lemieux or (Hassan N'Dam) N'Jikam, the French guy - IBF belt. I want all belts and big fights - unification fight - with WBC, too."

Cotto, of course, is the WBC champ and would represent the massive fight Golovkin so badly seeks.