By Jack Tiernan: Ryan Garcia is choosing Gennadiy Golovkin to upset Canelo Alvarez tonight in their highly anticipated trilogy fight on DAZN pay-per-view.
It probably won’t make Canelo happy to learn that his former lightweight teammate Ryan Garcia is attacking him, but he says he’s just being objective about it.
Ryan notes that Canelo (57-2-2, 39 KOs) seems “very angry” coming off a loss to Dmitry Bivol, and now faces the equally tough Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs) tonight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Canelo’s anger won’t help him tonight because it will only lead to him running out of gas faster.
As many boxing fans already know, Golovkin has given Canelo pure pain in two fights and should arguably be up 2-0 heading into tonight’s trilogy.
The worrying thing about Canelo is the fact that he denies his recent loss to Bivol. Instead of admitting that he was beaten by the best man, he made the excuse that something went wrong in training camp that prevented him from putting in 100% effort.
“I already said this before. I would think that Canelo would beat him in the past for the third time, but the way I see things, the way they are, I would give Golovkin the advantage for a reason,” Ryan Garcia told DAZN.
“Both fights were good fights. Not that Golovkin has ever been out of the fight, but two, Canelo is coming off a loss. [to Dmitry Bivol] and he looks very angry. He seems out of focus, and is not really the character from his past.
“But then again, he can put it all together and knock the guy out. For me, I wouldn’t be surprised if Golovkin wins. So I’m going to go with the underdog this time, but it’s nothing against Canelo. It’s all just boxing objectivity,” Ryan said.
“It’s the biggest rivalry of any rivalry that we’ve seen in the last five, ten, fifteen years, from the days of [Marco Antonio] barrier against [Erik] Morales,” Eddie Hearn told the DAZN Boxing Show.
“These guys are the best competitors. They [Canelo & Golovkin] know what they have to go through. They are going to have to go through horrible places.
“It’s the closeness of the fights, and it will be a close fight. There is no way this fight is going to be one-sided,” Hearn said.
