By Joshua Garcia
Gennady “Triple G” Golovkin was born in Kunandaga, Kazakhstan, but after seven of his biggest professional fights he calls midtown Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden home. At his home, G entered to tremendous cheer and praise but left the ring in a completely different fashion all together.
Boos rained down heavy from the Garden crowd as they heard the judges scores from legendary ring announcer Michael Buffer. 115-112, 115-112, 114-113 a unanimous winning decision for the new IBF champion Gennady Golovkin. Most of the non-G fans, and even some of them as well, voiced the displeasure in scores not representative of the close battle their eyes had just witnessed.
Sergiy Derevyenchenko with only a handful of professional fights gave one of the greatest pound for pound fighters of his generation the battle of his life. Throughout the Canelo duo, Kell Brook, and Daniel Jacobs wars, G may have not faced a stiffer challenge than that of the tough Ukrainian Derevyenchenko.
As G was being interviewed in the ring post-fight he didnt exactly give the seal of approval to his winning decision saying, “Right now it’s bad day for me, it’s a big day for Sergiy, his team.” G looked far from convincing that he is still at the top of his game at age 38, and without the judges leaning more toward his career resume than his performance at MSG Saturday night, a trilogy with Saul Canelo Alvarez could be in serious jeopardy.
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Both G and Canelo are signed to contracts with DAZN and it makes more than perfect sense to set up the mega third fight between two of the biggest names in the fight game under their umbrella. When asked G responded, “Absolutely I still want Canelo…Everything is ready just call Canelo. If he says yes, let’s do it.”
Saul Canelo Alvarez who is set to face light heavyweight Sergey Kovalev at two weight classes above his usual competition November 2nd in Las Vegas had a much different view of a trilogy in an interview with TV Azteca 7 in Mexico, “He no longer poses an challenge. I’ve already beat him. I gave him 24 rounds and he couldn’t do it. What’s going to happen in the third fight? I’m just going to beat him again.” Canelo is out to do what no-one else has and wants to be the best boxer in the history of his proud famed fighting nation of Mexico, and until G can show he deserves again to be toe-to-toe, Canelo will only be accepting challenges that separate his boxing career from the greatest to ever lace up gloves.
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