By Allan Fox: Legendary trainer Freddie Roach is excited to see Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin in the main event this Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Roach feels that Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs), 40, has a good chance of winning despite his advanced age.
Golovkin’s power is what gives him a decent chance to pull off an upset against the 32-year-old Canelo.
Even with Golovkin getting older, he will likely still be able to outplay Canelo, which is what his trainer Johnathon Banks wants him to do.
Canelo was outclassed by his last opponent, Dmitry Bivol, and ended up losing a 12-round unanimous decision last May. If Golovkin can duplicate what Bivol did, he can win, as long as he doesn’t take as many hits as he did the last time he fought Canelo in 2018.
Roach fighter Gabe Rosado will fight Ali Akhmedov in a 10-round bout on the Canelo vs. Golovkin III.
“The main event is going to be great. This is their third time together, and the first two were fun to watch,” Freddie Roach told Fighthype of Saturday’s trilogy between Gennadiy Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez.
“He’s fighting again, GGG. Canelo is a tough guy. He has a lot of muscles, it seems that he has new muscles. I’m not sure where he got those muscles from. He could go to that store. Hopefully, it’s all natural. must be a great fight
“Youth and speed are great, but power is perhaps the most overwhelming. Maybe it’s for the best there is. In the first two fights, they fought toe to toe. That is why I am very excited to be in this fight.
“The main event is going to be a fun fight to watch. It’s going to be a good fight anyway, and it should be a lot of fun to watch. That’s why I’m happy Gabe [Rosado] brought me inside
“A little bit. Big fighters, big names. The crowd is going to be massive. That’s what wrestling is all about. Not those Cinderella guys fighting each other.
“Two very good fighters. GGG, I’m a very good friend of mine. He came to my gym to meet Manny Pacquiao. Where in the world does a world champion come to a gym to meet another fighter?
“They met and took photos. It was very, very nice of him to make that move as a world champion by coming to see an up-and-coming fighter at the time named Manny Pacquiao. Not everyone knew him at the time. He made it a little bit more famous,” Roach said.
