![]() ![]() Few dispute that Golovkin was the clear winner the first time around. While the vast majority saw the Kazakh as the clear victor, the official tally was a split draw, accompanied as it was by the outrageous scorecard of one Adalaide Byrd, who tabbed Canelo the winner by an absurd eight points. The fight itself was lively and highly competitive, but the judges made a mockery of it. That was back in 2015, when Alvarez defeated Miguel Cotto, but for various reasons a Golovkin vs Canelo showdown did not happen until September of 2017.Īnd when Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin vs Santos Saúl Álvarez Barragán, Part I, finally did go down, it left a bad taste in the mouths of fans hungry for some coherence in the sport they love. The word ‘finally’ here is a loaded one, with various connotations, and it applies equally to the interminable wait suffered by action-starved fight fans after it became crystal clear that the two best fighters competing at 160 pounds were Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin. It was three years ago today that boxing finally got the rematch it needed: Golovkin vs Canelo II. ![]()
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