Gennadiy Golovkin knows the story of the disappointment he felt over the controversial results of his two middleweight championship fights against Canelo Alvarez, but said a win in his long-awaited third fight will by no means make those decisions.
“No, I don’t think so and I don’t want people to think that the result of the third fight is going to erase the results of the first two because we need to separate the first two and the third fight,” Golovkin said. he told Fight Freaks Unite and Big Fight Weekend through an interpreter. “This is a different time, a different weight class, and the first two fights were very interesting.
“They have already gone down in history. So any outcome, any outcome of the third fight, shouldn’t affect the memory of the first two and shouldn’t erase what happened there.”
The third fight will see unified middleweight champion Golovkin move up to super middleweight to challenge undisputed champion Alvarez on Saturday (DAZN PPV and PPV.com, 8 p.m. ET) at T-Mobile Arena, the same venue for all three. fights, in Vegas. and all three will take place on the weekend of Mexico’s Independence Day.
The first fight in 2017, for Golovkin’s unified middleweight title, ended with one of the most controversial decisions in boxing history, a split draw in which the majority of GGG clearly won, even though the judge who he gave it to Alvarez, Adalaide Byrd, he had it against him. impressive 118-110.
The 2018 rematch resulted in Alvarez (57-2-2, 39 KOs), 32, of Mexico claiming a hotly contested majority decision victory to take the middleweight belts from Golovkin and end his historic reign of the title in 20 successful division-tying defenses.
Now, almost four years after the rematch, and five years since the first fight, they will meet again.
“Finally! That explains it all. Finally! I’m so happy it’s happening,” Golovkin said of securing a fight he’s wanted since the rematch and one that guaranteed him his DAZN contract when he signed with the streaming service. after Alvarez did.
The problem was that Alvarez’s contract didn’t bind him to the third fight and he decided to go another direction and make Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs), a Kazakhstan native fighting out of Santa Monica, California, wait until that he was 40
“So many things happened. You are very conscientious,” Golovkin said. “He was avoiding this fight for four years. We have been waiting, plus the pandemic times. So finally, I’m excited for this fight to happen.”
GGG said he has never stopped at scoring the first two bouts, both of which have legions of boxing fans who believe he won both.
“Those two fights were great fights, very interesting, fascinating, very competitive,” Golovkin said of their 24 rounds together that produced a pair of action-packed classics. “I am satisfied with those fights.”
He has a different view of the judges who scored against him.
“As for the judges, the decisions are in their conscience,” he said. “They were used as disposable napkins. He got used to it. That’s what they were and I went over it. I didn’t think much of it. I am a professional athlete. I know what I have to do in the ring. I do my job. I strive for the best.”
