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Golovkin, Alvarez deliver classic middleweight bout
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Three-belt champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez look set to rule the resurgent middleweight division for years to come after their 12-round slugfest on Saturday which fittingly ended in a stalemate.
鈥淚t was a great fight,鈥 said boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya. 鈥淭his is one of the best fights we have seen in recent years.鈥
Golovkin, who was making his Las Vegas debut, and Mexico鈥檚 biggest star Alvarez delivered on all levels as two of boxing鈥檚 pound-for-pound best met at the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday in a highly-anticipated fight that was two years in the making.
The evenly-matched fight ended in a draw which meant Kazakh Golovkin would keep his World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation belts.
鈥淲e knew going into this it would be a war,鈥 said Golovkin鈥檚 trainer Abel Sanchez.
Golovkin will earn US$3 million and Alvarez US$5 million.
Golovkin is considered one of the fittest athletes in boxing and he needed every ounce of that conditioning and every extra breath of air to withstand the force of Alvarez鈥檚 punches.
Alvarez says he would use his rematch clause for a second fight against knockout king Golovkin, who has now gone the distance his last two fights. In March, he had his streak of 23 consecutive knockouts snapped when he outpointed Daniel Jacobs.
Some said Golovkin was showing his age as Jacobs had an unexpected surge over the final three rounds before losing by a narrow decision.
Alvarez doesn鈥檛 think Golovkin is ripe for the picking but says he might have lost some of the fear factor. 鈥淗e has a different power than others I have faced,鈥 Alvarez said of Golovkin. 鈥淏ut he is not the monster everybody is talking about. I didn鈥檛 feel that.鈥
Golovkin has 19 straight title defenses and now needs just one more victory to tie Bernard Hopkins for the most middleweight title defenses in a row at 20.
Golovkin waited a long time to get his first fight on boxing鈥檚 biggest stage in the US. He has fought in 22 cities in 7 countries but never before in Sin City.
This fight should have already happened and Golovkin had to push hard to get a deal. But it was left to marinate until there was no other option for Alvarez, who was fighting for just the second time over 155-pounds.
Golovkin wasn鈥檛 going to let anything distract him while training for this fight. He even missed the birth of his daughter on September 8 because he was in the gym training for the fight. His wife, Alina, gave birth to the couple鈥檚 second child.
While Golovkin plans to enjoy more time with his expanding family, Alvarez is going to take several months off. 鈥淚 am going to rest for the rest of the year and we will fight again next year.鈥
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