The time is right for the faster, primer Canelo Álvarez to put it all together against Gennady Golovkin, whose pace and pressure are not what they once wereKevin Mitchell on why Golovkin will beat CaneloThis is a closer fight in the public eye today than it was two years ago when it first became an obligation. Back then, after Gennady Golovkin’s eight-round destruction of David Lemieux and Canelo Álvarez’s career-best win over Miguel Cotto for the lineal middleweight title (at a catchweight of 155lbs), few would have fancied Álvarez over the Kazakh puncher known as Triple G, who’d spent the better part of a decade ripping through the division with a rare blend of patience, technique and concussive power in...
Gennady Golovkin has a rhythm of fighting that almost ignores the activity of his opponent, an ominous pace that will leave Canelo Álvarez with no escapeBryan Armen Graham on why Canelo will beat GolovkinThis is a fight with no bad guys. You don’t get that often in boxing. Saul “Canelo” Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin are bona fide class acts in the ring and now they are pitted against each other in a fight that maybe should have happened a couple of years ago, but at least it’s on. It will be the fight of the year and, if it’s not, some of the blame will be down to the promoters who milked it, who delayed the action until it was...
The upcoming fight in Las Vegas between the aggressive Kazakh and the wily Mexican has the look of a bout from boxing’s golden ageIt is time for boxing to fix its house. Two weeks after Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor did each other a mutual favour in a cross-discipline public spar that delivered them an estimated $400m to share (the Irishman getting a quarter slice), Gennady Golovkin and Saul “Canelo” Álvarez meet in the same ring on Saturday night to decide who is the best middleweight in the world. Related: Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather the only ones enriched by this fight | Kevin Mitchell Related: Golovkin and Álvarez start the hard sell for middleweight title defence in Vegas Continue...
The crowd-pleasing Kazakh is unhappy that a superfight with Canelo Álvarez has been tabled yet again, which could spell bad news for stand-in Danny JacobsStop me if you’ve heard the one about the middleweight who was too good to get a big fight, the prodigious talent who time and again found himself on the raw end of the elemental risk-versus-reward calculus at matchmaking’s essence. Once upon a time it was Charley Burley, described by no less estimable fistic minds than Eddie Futch and Ray Arcel as the greatest all-round fighter either had ever set eyes on, whose formidable ability and skin color in the 1940s cruelly conspired to earn him the unenviable title of best ever boxer to never be...
Froch is 39, he’s been retired for 30 months and only Canelo Álvarez can offer Golovkin the career defining fight he craves before he hangs up his own glovesThere are several reasons Carl Froch would come out of retirement to fight the most dangerous opponent he could imagine, Gennady Golovkin.And, without even reading between the lines of the latest rumours, you already know what they are: the noughts on whatever upright digit the middleweight champion’s promoter, Tom Loeffler, comes up with. I’m guessing it would have to at least look as pretty as this for the former super-middleweight champion: £2,000,000. Related: Carl Froch, the Cobra who just loved fighting | Kevin Mitchell Related: Álvarez-Golovkin is the new mega-fight, but we’ll...