![]() ![]() How then to strategize against an opponent whose hors d’oeuvres crack like howitzers? Certain studies have found the punch capable of packing more velocity than a cross, but typically it’s a weapon deployed to accrue points, find a boxer’s range and conserve energy - not end a fight. Here are three keys to their fight: Will Golovkin’s jabs take their toll?Ī jab is a fighter’s appetizer, a small taste before the main course of hooks, crosses and uppercuts. The animosity has risen steadily between the two world champions raised thousands of miles apart: Alvarez grew up hawking ice cream on the streets of Juanacatlan, Mexico, while Golovkin was forced at a young age to fight grown men in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.Īlvarez (49-1-2, 34 knockouts) and Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 knockouts) are two of the finest active fighters, universally considered to be among the sport’s top pound– for– pound talents. Both are far more evident this time around, the mutual respect of their first fight a distant memory. Alvarez-Golovkin has been the best pure bout that contemporary boxing has produced in essentially three years, so it’s perhaps no surprise that a slab of contaminated meat couldn’t delay its second installment for more than six months.īoxing’s ecosystem subsists on manufactured hatred and braggadocio. Almost exactly one year after they fought to a controversial draw - prompting a near-aneurysm from ESPN’s Teddy Atlas - Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin will meet once again in Las Vegas at T-Mobile Arena in a middleweight world title rematch.
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