IBF and IBO world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin from Kazakhstan (41-1-1, 36 KOs) gave an interview to Chris Shiflett on the Walking the Floor podcast, in which he shared his opinion on the fairness of the verdict in two fights against the Mexican Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KO), bbabo.net reports.
Recall that their first fight in September 2017 ended in a controversial draw, and exactly a year later, the judges gave the victory to Alvarez. Thus, Golovkin suffered the first defeat of his career.
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- I know that you are already tired of answering questions about Canelo. But I think that you won both fights: 8-4 or 7-5 in rounds. Did the fact that the decision of the judges was not in your favor somehow clouded your attitude towards the business side of boxing?
- I agree with Chris. This is what I live with, and my decision about the results of these fights will never change. I believe that I won these fights. I will say more - if people are accustomed to living in deceit and are okay with this, then let them live with it. These are their problems. Has my attitude towards the boxing business changed? I will say yes. At that time, there was no bigger fight in boxing than ours. How could you treat it like that? When the whole world is watching, and you treat all this this way, you turn this scam, and all this goes unpunished, thoughts appear: “Can it really work like that?”. And there are also thoughts that this boxing has the right to be treated this way. That you can not only love boxing as a sport, but also approach it as a business, and it will work - it will remain unpunished and legal. The option just appears. It's not that disappointing, it's just that looking at it all, you suddenly understand that it works.
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According to insiders, Golovkin and Canelo are close to a trilogy. Moreover, this time the antagonists will converge in the limit of the second middleweight (168 pounds), and four titles of the Mexican will be at stake.
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