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Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez, Gennadiy Golovkin will do it one more time

Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin will do it one more time Saturday in Las Vegas.

FIGHT WEEK

Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin will close out their rivalry in a third fight on pay-per-view Saturday night in Las Vegas.

CANELO ALVAREZ (57-2-2, 39 KOs) VS. GENNADIY GOLOVKIN (42-1-1, 37 KOs)

  • When: Saturday, Sept. 17
  • Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: Pay-per-view
  • Cost: $84.99 in U.S. ($64.99 for DAZN subscribers)
  • Division: Super middleweight (168-pound limit)
  • At stake: Alvarez’s undisputed championship
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: Alvarez No. 7, Golovkin No. 13
  • Odds: Alvarez 4½-1 favorite
  • Also on the card: Jesse Rodriguez vs. Israel Gonzalez, junior bantamweights (for Rodriguez’s WBC title); Ali Akhmedov vs. Gabriel Rosado, super middleweights; Austin Williams vs. Kieron Conway, middleweights; Diego Pacheco vs. Enrique Collazo, super middleweights
  • Prediction: Alvarez UD
  • Background: The third fight between these rivals is four years coming. They fought to a disputed draw in 2017 and Alvarez won the rematch by a close decision the following year, after which the Mexican star indicated that the rivalry was “finished business.” However, fans have always embraced the idea of a third fight and DAZN – with which both men are affiliated – has pushed for it. So here we are. Alvarez is coming off his first loss since he fell to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, a unanimous-decision upset against 175-pound champ Dmitry Bivol in May that knocked him out of the top spot of most pound-for-pound lists. He’s moving back down to 168 for the fourth defense of his titles and a more-winnable matchup against a 40-year-old moving up from 160 for the fight. Golovkin began to show signs of decline in a close decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko in October 2019. He subsequently stopped Kamil Szeremeta and Ryota Murata (for two titles this past April) but he didn’t convince many observers that he had regained his old form. Of course, this is a golden opportunity for Triple-G to prove everyone wrong. Also on the card, talented “Bam” Rodriguez (16-0, 11 KOs) of San Antonio defends his title against Mexican Israel Gonzalez (28-4-1, 11 KOs) after spectacular back-to-back victories over Carlos Cuadras(UD)  and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (TKO 8) this year.

 

ALSO FIGHTING THIS WEEK

WEDNESDAY

  • Bryan Acosta vs. Jon Martinez, featherweights, Toronto (DAZN)

FRIDAY

  • Arslanbek Makhmudov vs. Carlos Takam, heavyweights, Montreal (ESPN+)
  • Luis Torres vs. Cesar Gutierrez, lightweights, Obregon, Mexico (Canela TV)

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Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez, Gennadiy Golovkin will do it one more time

Fight Week: Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin will do it one more time Saturday in Las Vegas.

FIGHT WEEK

Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin will close out their rivalry in a third fight on pay-per-view Saturday night in Las Vegas.

CANELO ALVAREZ (57-2-2, 39 KOs) VS. GENNADIY GOLOVKIN (42-1-1, 37 KOs)

  • When: Saturday, Sept. 17
  • Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
  • TV/Stream: Pay-per-view
  • Cost: $84.99 in U.S. ($64.99 for DAZN subscribers)
  • Division: Super middleweight (168-pound limit)
  • At stake: Alvarez’s undisputed championship
  • Pound-for-pound ranking: Alvarez No. 7, Golovkin No. 13
  • Odds: Alvarez 4½-1 favorite
  • Also on the card: Jesse Rodriguez vs. Israel Gonzalez, junior bantamweights (for Rodriguez’s WBC title); Ali Akhmedov vs. Gabriel Rosado, super middleweights; Austin Williams vs. Kieron Conway, middleweights; Diego Pacheco vs. Enrique Collazo, super middleweights
  • Prediction: Alvarez UD
  • Background: The third fight between these rivals is four years coming. They fought to a disputed draw in 2017 and Alvarez won the rematch by a close decision the following year, after which the Mexican star indicated that the rivalry was “finished business.” However, fans have always embraced the idea of a third fight and DAZN – with which both men are affiliated – has pushed for it. So here we are. Alvarez is coming off his first loss since he fell to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, a unanimous-decision upset against 175-pound champ Dmitry Bivol in May that knocked him out of the top spot of most pound-for-pound lists. He’s moving back down to 168 for the fourth defense of his titles and a more-winnable matchup against a 40-year-old moving up from 160 for the fight. Golovkin began to show signs of decline in a close decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko in October 2019. He subsequently stopped Kamil Szeremeta and Ryota Murata (for two titles this past April) but he didn’t convince many observers that he had regained his old form. Of course, this is a golden opportunity for Triple-G to prove everyone wrong. Also on the card, talented “Bam” Rodriguez (16-0, 11 KOs) of San Antonio defends his title against Mexican Israel Gonzalez (28-4-1, 11 KOs) after spectacular back-to-back victories over Carlos Cuadras(UD)  and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (TKO 8) this year.

 

ALSO FIGHTING THIS WEEK

WEDNESDAY

  • Bryan Acosta vs. Jon Martinez, featherweights, Toronto (DAZN)

FRIDAY

  • Arslanbek Makhmudov vs. Carlos Takam, heavyweights, Montreal (ESPN+)
  • Luis Torres vs. Cesar Gutierrez, lightweights, Obregon, Mexico (Canela TV)

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Canelo Alvarez’s trainer says he’d KO Gennadiy Golovkin in third fight

Canelo Alvarez’s trainer, Eddy Reynoso, said Gennadiy Golovkin won’t survive to the final bell if he fights the Mexican star a third time.

Canelo Alvarez’s trainer said Gennadiy Golovkin wouldn’t survive to the final bell if he fights the Mexican star a third time.

Alvarez and Golovkin reportedly agreed before the coronavirus pandemic took hold to fight one another in the fall. Alvarez was tentatively scheduled to face Billy Joe Saunders on Cinco de Mayo weekend but that fight was postponed indefinitely.

Eddy Reynoso, Alvarez’s trainer, said a third fight with Golovkin would probably be his protege’s last at 160 pounds. The trainer mentioned Saunders, Callum Smith, Caleb Plant and David Benavidez as possible opponents at super middleweight.

The rivals fought to a controversial split draw in September 2017 and Alvarez won a majority decision the following September.

Golovkin turned 38 on Wednesday.

“Without a doubt, if this fight happens, Canelo-Golovkin III, no doubt we’ll knock him out,” Reynoso told ESPN KnockOut. “We’ll look to take the fight to him like in the second one, from the start, try to push him back. But this time things are going to be very different.

“This time, we’re going to knock him out. That’s a promise to all the people who believe in us.”

Alvarez had hoped to fight three times this year but, Reynoso said, that is no longer a realistic plan.

“I think right now we’ll only be able to fit in two fights,” Reynoso said. “We want to fight Golovkin at 160 pounds. We’ll see afterward if there is something there at 160, and if not we’ll go up to 168. Canelo has been fine-tuning over the years, and we’re going to make a lot of noise at 168.”

Reynoso went on: “We’ll have to see how things go and then see how the economy is [when boxing resumes]. There are a lot of fighters who were left without fights. We’ll have to see what happens with them first as far as dates, so we’ll see how all of this pans … out.”