Certainly one of boxing’s greatest feuds will quickly be settled when Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin meet for a 3rd time.
The primary struggle resulted in a draw, the second was a win for Canelo and now all eyes will likely be on struggle no.3.
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And it was through the first encounter that Canelo realised the size of the duty in entrance of him as he watched Golovkin, also called GGG, casually eat the identical shot that left Amir Khan loud night breathing on the canvas.
In spherical 9, Canelo caught GGG with an ideal punch however his opponent remained unmoved, and the Mexican even appeared to look barely anxious concerning the obvious zombie stood in entrance of him.
The 2 middleweight champions have been hoping to settle the controversy about who’s the very best pound-for-pound boxer on the planet once they met in 2017.
Regardless of the epic Las Vegas struggle, followers have been left with extra questions than solutions after the bout was declared a draw.
One factor was sure, although, Golovkin has the very best chin in boxing given Canelo is used to folks falling when he lands his signature overhand proper.
The middleweight duo re-matched on May 5, 2018, and this time we had a winner.
After a nip-and-tuck 12-round fight, Canelo walked away from the bout with a controversial majority decision victory.
A third fight seemed inevitable and four years later we finally get to see them complete their trilogy.
Alvarez has since conquered the super-middleweight division, beating Caleb Plant, Billy Joe Saunders and Callum Smith to become the first Mexican undisputed champion in boxing history.
Golovkin has continued to campaign at 160lbs and has beaten Steve Rolls, Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Kamil Szeremeta while also becoming a world champion once again.
GGG put his IBF and IBO titles on the line against the Japanese fighter Ryota Murata and beat him in Japan in April, taking his WBA (Super) title in the process.
His great rival, however, slipped up when he fought Dmitry Bivol for the WBA light heavyweight title in May.
There is a genuine dislike for each other and Canelo has spoken about wanting to retire his Kazakh rival, who turned 40 this year after their third fight.
It will be his 62nd fight, with that loss to Bivol being only the second time in his career he has lost.
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