By Ken Hissner: The boxing world has its places in this Saturday’s trilogy between the WBA Super World, the WBC World, the WBO World and the IBF super middleweight world champion. Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin, the world middleweight champion from Kazakhstan, on DAZN (The Zone) PPV.
Even the Main Event fighters are part of the promotions in Saul Alvarez (Canelo Promotions), Gennadiy Golovkin (GGG Promotions) along with Eddie Hearn (Matchroom Boxing).
What would have been an even bigger event if Alvarez and Golovkin had had this third meeting in May 2019?
In September 2017, in their first meeting, Alvarez was lucky enough to earn a split decision draw against Golovkin, who hounded Alvarez for the final seven rounds.
While Álvarez was inactive for a year before their second meeting, Golovkin defended his WBA Super World, WBC World and IBO World titles in May 2018, knocking out former WBC Silver Super Welterweight champion Vanes Martirosyan, who hadn’t fought in two years. put him into retirement.
It was Martirosyan’s debut at middleweight as, in his previous fight, he lost in a rematch to WBA super welterweight world champion Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara in May 2016, for whom he had a draw. former technician.
In September 2018, Álvarez won a majority decision rematch over Golovkin. Three months later, in December, he decided to challenge WBA super middleweight world champion Rocky Fielding, whom he held for the title and never defended, but defended his middleweight title again in May 2019, which would be his last fight at middleweight.
So instead of defending it against Golovkin, he chose Danny “Miracle Man” Jacobs, whom Golovkin had beaten in a title defense. That’s when the trilogy should have been, not this weekend.
Since Álvarez chose Jacobs to defend instead of Golovkin, the latter the following month in June knocked out previously undefeated Steve Rolls.
In November, Alvarez announced that he would drop out of the middleweight division and move up in weight even beyond super middleweight by knocking out WBO light heavyweight world champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev for another title he would never defend, but that he would win the WBA Super and WBC Titles a year later.
The month before Álvarez defeated Kovalev, Golovkin won the vacant IBF and IBO world middleweight titles again by defeating Sergiy “The Technician” Derevyancheko. So let’s hope that the third encounter between Álvarez and Golovkin lives up to the long-awaited trilogy!
