By Robert Segal: Canelo Alvarez disagrees with people about the first two fights, with Gennadi and Golovkin being controversial. Canelo feels that he clearly beat both of them and believes that he did well in the first fight.
Interestingly, Canelo (57-2-2, 39 KOs) believes he did well in the first fight with Golovkin in 2017 because many boxing fans would disagree with him.
The important thing now is that Canelo finds a way to win the trilogy fight with Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs) without controversy this Saturday night, September 17 because he benefits from a questionable score for the third time, it goes to damage his legacy.
What Canelo has going for him that suggests he will win convincingly is Golovkin’s age and his recent performances.
Golovkin is now 40 years old, and he looked and performed his age in his fights against Ryota Murata and Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
“I just wanted to hear the opening bell. I was dying to go out and fight. To beat him and prove that I was better than him,” Canelo Alvarez told DAZN’s Making of a Trilogy about her second clash with Gennadiy Golovkin.
“I was not happy with the lottery they gave. We wanted the rematch to dispel any doubts,” Canelo said. “I told Eddy [Reynoso]’I’m going to win this fight, no matter what it takes.’
“Obviously we wanted that rematch because I wasn’t happy with the draw that they gave me.”
“Most of the people who saw the first fight thought GGG won, and that didn’t sit well with Canelo, obviously,” Todd Grisham said. “GGG was, ‘Bring me Canelo. I want Canelo’.
“So people thought Saúl Álvarez was dodging Golovkin, and you can’t blame him because the guy was a knockout machine. I think a lot of people thought that Canelo was taking the fight against GGG because he had to, not because he wanted to,” Grisham said.
“That never crossed my mind. I knew he had done really well in that fight,” Canelo said of his first contest with Golovkin. “We wanted the rematch to dispel any doubts.”
“We see a lot of rematches in boxing, but we don’t see fighters fundamentally changing the way they fight. That’s what Canelo did,” Chris Mannix said.
“The two GGG fights were the best fights the sport has ever seen,” said Eddie Hearn. “Two absolute wars, epically”.
