Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin exchange hard looks at the press conference to present their battle in September. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images / AFP)
Perhaps it was due to the recent defeat against Russian Dmitry Bivol. Perhaps because of the need to quickly bring the spotlight back to him. Perhaps there is indeed a residue of anger towards his future rival. Or perhaps a combination of all of this. Anyway, Saul. Cinnamon Álvarez was angry as rarely in the presentation of his next match against the Kazakh Gennadiy Golovkin, whom he described as “idiot” and “two-faced”.
Unusually tense was the first meeting between the contenders at the Hollywood Legion Theater in Los Angeles, where dog-faced Álvarez has spent too much time exposing personal differences with the man she has already dealt twice with and with whom she will meet. again on September 17 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a duel in which the four belts of the supermedium division belonging to the Mexican will be at stake.
“It’s like two different people. He pretends to be a good guy in front of you, he always says, “I’m a good guy.” He is not. He is an idiot. He always talks bullshit about me, “shot the Guadalajaran during the press conference, while Golovkin looked at him, impassive, a few inches away.” For me, this is personal because he said a lot of things. I can’t wait to face him. because I’m angry, “he added.
Over time, the 40-year-old Kazakh veteran denied his rival’s allegations and tried to lower the tension. “I don’t understand what you’re talking about because after the second match we shook hands and I think at that moment we left everything behind. If he says he still has something against me, it’s his problem, not mine. “
“I don’t take it personally. This is a sport. And I’m not a different person from the camera as you say CinnamonExplained the current world middleweight champion of the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Federation. And he wondered, “If this is so personal to him, why did he postpone the third meeting for so long?”
The two disputes between these two men were resolved on highly contested points of pronouncement. On September 16, 2017, they tied in a split decision. Three hundred and sixty-four days later, Álvarez prevailed by a very narrow majority decision. Four years later, they will cross gloves for the third time.
Canelo Álvarez drew with Gennadiy Golovkin in September 2017 and defeated him a year later. (Photo: Isaac Brekken / AP)
After these two controversial resolutions, the redhead born 31 years ago in Juanacatlán, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, has anticipated that this time the judges will not have a job. “I will try the knockout from the first round. This is the only way I want to end this game. This will be her last fight. I want to finish her career, I will, for sure, ”she predicted.
Golovkin, who has a record of 42 wins (37 before the limit), 1 loss and 1 draw, has accepted the challenge of moving from 160 pounds to 168 for this race. Neither this nor his age seem to intimidate him. “I’m 40, but I want to continue in boxing. I want to try super middleweight like he tried light heavyweight. I feel 100% comfortable. I don’t care if we fight in their division, “he said.
For Álvarez, this will be an opportunity to redeem himself after his May 7 defeat to Bivol in a frustrated attempt to clinch the WBA light heavyweight title. That was his second career defeat (the first was against Floyd Mayweather in 2013), which also includes 57 wins (39 fast lane) and 2 draws.
Canelo Álvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin are already preparing for the last chapter of the trilogy. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images / AFP)
“(Losing to Bivol) It was sad, but there is no other fighter in my position who would risk gaining weight. I didn’t need to do that, but I want to grow my legacy and when you look for greatness, there will be hits, “he explained. And he said:” I don’t want to make excuses, but only we on the team know what happened, because I was so tired after the first five rounds “.
Cinnamon He believed this defeat had made him “a much more dangerous fighter than before” and said he was “more motivated than ever”. “A lot of people take a year or two to come back after a defeat, but I’m in boxing because I want to be one of the best in history,” he said.
For the friendly Golovkin, the Mexican’s stumbling could have served as fuel for his future. The loss surprised many, but for him it was an experience. He probably feels more focused on boxing now, “he reasoned.
Source: Clarin
