The wait has made the anticipation greater. Finally, on Saturday night it will happen. Billed as the fight of the decade, two of the best boxers in the World (in any weight division) will meet for all the marbles at Middleweight. The lineal Champion will emerge from the inevitable fireworks that will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, America on the 16th. The unbeaten Kazakhstani professional Golovkin is the favorite-but not an overwhelming one. Nevertheless, with the same knockout ratio held by Mike Tyson when his career was at this stage he is an acknowledged ferocious puncher with devastating power in each hand. He also has a chin like stone which has enabled him to make errors, get hit, and still win and it could do so again on Saturday. He will have no fear of Alvarez, for Golovkin, its business as usual-seek and destroy. Canelo in contrast must fight the perfect fight in order to win. He is only recently fighting at Middle Weight having moved up from 147 pounds over a couple of years. He needs to stick to a well thought out game plan, show plenty of lateral movement to stay out of trouble, throw fast combinations while simultaneously using elusive head and body movement ‘bobbing and weaving’ combined with indefatigable stamina if he must go 12 rounds to win on points. He is only 26 so he’s young enough to put in such a performance but can he take the punches of a true, seasoned middleweight? Golovkin is a youthful 35 and has never been on the floor in more than 380 fights so it’s is difficult to imagine Alvarez hurting or stopping him. He must therefore clearly hit Golovkin more times than he gets hit and make it to the final bell. He must also not just get a debatable decision but win convincingly if he is to avoid the controversy of last year’s ‘pound for pound’ fight between Andre Ward and Sergey Kovalev. Ward won on a split decision which left a bitter taste in the mouth for many and even when Ward did a real job on his opponent and stopped Kovalev in a rematch earlier this year flimsy accusations of low blows blemished the victory for some so overall it was a less than satisfying experience even though the better man won. This has to be different if greatness is to be achieved by whoever proves to be the better man on Saturday. Read more http://www.boxingnews24.com/2017/09/canelo-golovkin-champion-champions-fight-decade-finally/
