LAS VEGAS — In the four years since Gennadiy Golovkin last fought Canelo Alvarez at T-Mobile Arena, much has changed. Alvarez rode a victory over Golovkin in that second fight to even greater heights.
at T-Mobile Arena, much has changed. Alvarez rode a victory over Golovkin in that second fight to even greater heights.
The verdicts in each of those fights has been much debated, though if a fighter doesn’t want to be at the mercy of the judging, they have to finish the fight. As it is, he goes into Saturday’s fight regarded as the best middleweight of his era, but not really in the discussion for Top 5 middleweight of all time. And he’s no longer regarded as one of the pound-for-pound best in the world.
Yahoo Sports asked him about a comment his trainer Johnathon Banks made to Ring magazine about the fight being brutal. Golovkin turned it into a shot at promoter Eddie Hearn even though Hearn’s name had not come up in the conversation to that point. He’s 40 years old now and has been at or near the top of his sport for more than a decade. His two fights with Alvarez combined to sell 2.4 million pay-per-views in the U.S. on HBO Sports and they had a combined gate of over $51 million. They were the third- and fourth-highest boxing gates in Nevada history.
“Being a big fan of boxing, I have high hopes that this fight is an opportunity to bring boxing back to the high level it deserves,” Golovkin said. “Those first [two] fights were on HBO and they were different times with a different approach. When HBO decided not to continue supporting that, new companies appeared with a different vision.
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