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On Saturday, September 17, Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will return to the ring against Gennadiy Golovkin in a trilogy fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in 2017. A rematch in 2018 saw Canelo win a close twelve round split decision over Golovkin.
In the first two meetings, Canelo had just made the move to the middleweight division.
This time around, Golovkin will head up to super middleweight to challenge Canelo for his undisputed championship.
While GGG is now 40 years old, and many view him as being past his best, Canelo’s head trainer and manager – Eddy Reynoso – expects a very tough fight.
“It’s a complicated fight for both of them, very tough because they already know each other, they are high-level fighters, with a good punch and it will be a very tough fight,” Reynoso told Little Giant Boxing.
“We have to work as always, we had a good 24 rounds against Golovkin, and we have to make [the rounds] even better [in the trilogy]. Saúl at 168 has looked very strong, he is the champion of the four [sanctioning] organizations and we have to prove [his status] and what he learned [since the first two bouts].”
Canelo is coming off his first defeat since 2013. He moved up in weight back in May and suffered a twelve round decision loss to WBA world champion Dmitry BIvol.
Reynoso explains that Canelo can only get better from defeat.
“Defeat always helps everyone, especially when you are a competitive boxer, a fighter with honor. A defeat always helps you improve in many things. We have to win this fight and we are going to look for Bivol next year,” concluded Reynoso.