By Geoffrey Ciani: Coming up on September 17 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, in a championship fight that will air on the relatively new DAZN PPV, Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will square off for the third time.
That first fight between Canelo and Golovkin happened on September 16, 2017. Going into that fight, Gennady was the undefeated unified IBF/WBC/WBA middleweight champion, and Canelo had a legitimate claim to the title of world champion. linear medium weight. The fight ended in a controversial draw where most observers believed Golovkin deserved to win.
The rematch occurred almost exactly one year later, on September 15, 2018. Golovkin had been stripped by the IBF, making it their unified WBC/WBA, against Canelo’s valid lineal claim. This time, Canelo was awarded a 12-round majority decision in a very close and competitive contest, where again, there were many observers who believed that Golovkin deserved to win, but this decision was much less controversial.
Since they last saw each other 4 long years ago, the two boxers seemed to be on divergent paths. Golovkin has gone 4-0 since the rematch, including a victory over Sergiy Derevyanchenko to win the vacant IBF belt, and most recently beat Ryoto Murata in a unification fight to also win the WBA belt. Canelo has gone 7-1, where he won a middleweight unification fight against Daniel Jacobs, won the WBO light heavyweight belt against Sergey Kovalev and beat Callum Smith, Billy Joe Saunders and Caleb Plant, three undefeated champions in the super middleweight. making Canelo the first undisputed world champion in the history of the 168-pound weight class. In his most recent fight, Canelo lost a unanimous decision when he challenged Dmitry Bivol for the WBA 175-pound belt.
Gennady Golovkin is 40 years old. Gennady is no spring chicken, and his skills have eroded at least a little since they last met 4 years ago. Gennady is also a career middleweight, so this will be his first fight at 168. On the other hand, Canelo is coming off his first loss in a long time, and that in itself makes this trilogy fight inherently more intriguing.
So who will win the upcoming September 17 battle for undisputed super middleweight supremacy between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin?
This edition of Rummy’s Corner will attempt to answer that question while providing a quick preview of the upcoming super middleweight matchup between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. Watch and enjoy the video to get a man’s opinion. This is Rummy’s Corner (produced and narrated by Geoffrey Ciani).
