Last weekend, the third fight was between Mexican Saul Alvarez and Kazakh Gennady Golovkin. And finally, their confrontation went without court scandals – Canelo won a victory by unanimous decision of the judges and defended the title of undisputed world champion in the super middleweight division. The fight itself was objectively disappointing, but we have already given our analysis in pursuit.
Alvarez, with this unspectacular victory, nevertheless “closed” his second defeat in his career – in May this year, the Mexican lost in all respects to the Russian WBA (Super) light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (Canelo suffered his first loss in 2013 to Floyd Mayweather Jr.). In the contract for this fight, there was an option for a rematch if Bivol won, but officially the Mexican’s team has yet to take advantage of this opportunity. But right after the victory in the trilogy with Golovkin, Canelo remembered the Russian boxer with the words “I will beat Bivol”.
After some time, “” contacted Dmitry Bivol himself, who honestly admitted that he did not watch the trilogy, and also philosophically responded to all of Alvarez’s attacks on him.
Bivol, 31, has 20 wins (11 by knockout). The Russian has owned the WBA belt since 2017 and during that time he made nine successful defenses. On Nov. 5 in Abu Dhabi, Bivol is set to face Mexican mandatory contender Gilberto Ramirez, who has 44 wins in the professional ring.
“HE IS INSPIRED BY GOLOVKIN’S FIGHTS, HE DID A LOT FOR ME”
– I cannot say anything specific about the fight between Canelo and Golovkin. I personally did not watch this match, Bivol started an interview with . – I thought about doing it, but in the end I never looked. Now I’m in my training and focusing on it. I’ll say even more – so far I haven’t really watched even Ramirez’s fights. I want to get into a normal state first, practice a bit, and then add specific developments specifically for the upcoming opponent. And watching fights with the participation of even potential rivals during the period of your own preparation … It’s confusing. Although many have already told me about the trilogy of Canelo and Golovkin, but, again, I did not watch. I try not to disperse my attention and concentrate. If I hadn’t been prepared, I definitely would have watched. But now his focus is on Ramirez – he’s not an easy opponent.
— Did the result of the trilogy surprise you?
– Of course not. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Golovkin won. It seems like it’s hard to surprise me with something – I’ve watched so many fights already. For many, Canelo’s victory was expected. Although there were hopes for Gennady’s triumph. But it happened like that.
– What comments on this fight did you receive?
– I heard Canelo’s first eight rounds were better and Gennady had less activity. But in the last four laps, Golovkin was better. That’s all I heard.
– Golovkin is 40 years old. And now there are active discussions about whether to pursue a career as a Kazakh. Although GGG himself intends to continue playing.
I don’t know if it should end or not. Obviously not for me and not for you to talk about this subject. Gennady must decide for himself. In any case, Golovkin is a legend, he contributed enormously to the development of boxing. I can say that I was inspired by his fights, as well as the fights of Ruslan Provodnikov, Denis Lebedev, Sergey Kovalev and others. At least they did a lot for me.
“AFTER THE FIGHT WITH ME, CANELO STARTED LOOKING DIFFERENT”
– There is an opinion that Alvarez is degrading from fight to fight.
– I didn’t see him fight Golovkin. But it often happens when a person loses… It turns out that people saw his drawbacks and some weaknesses that they just didn’t want to notice before, seeing all this fame. I find it hard to reason. But look… Anthony Joshua won and won everyone, then Oleksandr Usyk showed his holes, and we immediately look at him a little differently.
– You basically showed Alvarez the holes, and people started looking at him differently.
– Partly. Why not? Everyone saw the same benefits. Someone even thought he could win in the cruisers, fight someone in the heavyweight division. We are all human, we all have our pros and cons. Plus, there are weight categories for a reason. Yes, there is a media component which very often eclipses the cold mind regarding the analysis of any boxer.
– Alvarez said after the fight that he was going to beat you in a rematch.
– Let’s see. Vengeance… I must have my fight. I have already made statements about this, and nothing has changed. Ready for revenge, let’s negotiate.
– And these words “I will beat Bivol”?
We can say what we want. He had already said before that he would beat me. These are just words. I too can say something now, but it doesn’t mean anything, it’s just words. In fact, you have to show it. And how it will be – only God knows. We can just believe, connect and prepare.
Source : MatchTV
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