By Brian Webber: Gennadiy Golovkin’s former trainer Abel Sanchez says he doesn’t see any improvement in Canelo Alvarez’s game from this fight to the previous one against Dmitry Bivol.
Sanchez feels that the 32-year-old Canelo (58-2-2, 39 KOs) has become very repetitive without any “variance.”
Sanchez didn’t say it, but the way Canelo is fighting right now, he doesn’t stand a chance against Dmitry Bivol in a rematch or against the likes of David Benavidez and David Morrell. Those guys would make Canelo look as old as Golovkin.
You hate to say it, but Canelo is almost as fired up as Golovkin is right now, and we’ll see that once he fights Bivol again or faces Benavidez. Most likely, Canelo will use his excuse of not wanting to fight Mexicans to sidetrack Benavidez for the rest of his career.
That’s not going to protect the Mexican star from absorbing losses because the boxing public will keep him on his toes and demand that he fight quality super middleweights instead of fodder.
We see Canelo walking forward behind a tall guard looking to hit single shots that he charges.
That approach worked against the 40-year-old Golovkin last Saturday to give Canelo a 12-round unanimous decision victory, but only because the Kazakh looked old and aged inside the ring.
The way Canelo is fighting now is identical to how he fought the flawed super middleweight champions of Europe whom he beat to become the undisputed 168-pound champion.
Against Billy Joe Saunders, Rocky Fielding and Callum Smith, Canelo lumbered behind a high guard, throwing one punch at a time.
It was dimensional, but it worked against this weak group because they don’t have much talent.
That’s exactly what it was. Canelo won 10 rounds; maybe for sure, nine,” Abel Sanchez told Fight Hub TV about his thoughts on Gennadiy Golovkin’s generous scoring in his loss to Canelo Alvarez last Saturday. “118-110, 117-111 is what it should have been for Canelo.
“Sure, he’s got him boxing more and doing some of the fundamental things he should be doing, but that’s not Gennadiy,” Sanchez said of Golovkin’s trainer, Johnathon Banks.
“That is not the Gennadiy that the judges and the fans are used to seeing. They are not used to seeing Floyd Mayweather in a Kazakh body. They want to see that warrior he told the Mexicans he was going to be.
“For the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, he [Golovkin] he pushed a little more, but at that point, Canelo was floating because he didn’t have to win any more rounds. I think he thought he had the fight in the bag. But as he comes out, he was probably closer than he thought.
“The Gennadiy who fought Canelo in the first fight would have destroyed Canelo in the third fight. Canelo has come through, not because he’s not fighting bigs, but because he’s not getting it.
“All that he [Canelo] does is the same. He is methodical. Is the same. There is no improvement there. There’s no difference; there is no variation in anything he does.
“Let him get tired in the last third of the fight, the Golovkin that we had in the first and second fights, if he had that kind of attitude, he beats Canelo.
“If he [Golovkin] He would have done what he did in the last four rounds, if he had started in the fifth, it’s a different fight.
“He’s [Canelo] doing the same; compare the fights,” Sanchez said when asked if Canelo is doing the same thing he did against Dmitry Bivol.
“My concern for Canelo is that I heard in the Bivol fight that he gassed towards the end of the fight, like he did in this fight. Why is he gassing him at the end?
“At least Gennadiy was better in the latter part of the fight than he was in the beginning. Canelo was the complete opposite. What is the reason for that? He gets tired in the Bivol fight, he gets tired in this fight, but he doesn’t get tired in the first two fights with us.
“We will see if in the next one he presents the same excuse,” Sánchez said when told that Canelo excused himself after his loss to Bivol that he had not been able to train properly.
“That’s something I’d be looking at. Is she running out because she doesn’t train hard enough? You are top notch. You are supposed to be able to adapt and adjust. We will see what he says in his next fight,” Sánchez said of Canelo.
