Canelo boxing news and latest headlines
As fight fans may have read yesterday, talks between current middleweight champ Canelo Alvarez and former king Gennady Golovkin have, for the time being at least, broken down.
The way former middleweight king Gennady Golovkin tells it, he is absolutely certain he won both of his fights with Canelo Alvarez and that he remains an undefeated fighter.
Gennady Golovkin is planning on winning decisively against obscure contender Steve Rolls on June 8 to ensure that he can get the trilogy fight against Saul Canelo Alvarez that he so badly wants.
As Canelo Alvarez outpointed Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs to unify the WBA, WBC and IBF middleweight world titles on Saturday night, more than 1.2 million people worldwide watched live on DAZN across the company’s eight current markets.
BILLY JOE SAUNDERS has dared Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez to face him at either middleweight or super-middleweight.
Saunders was boosted over the weekend when it was confirmed that his showdown against German based Albanian Shefat Isufi at Stevenage FC’s Lamex Stadium on Saturday May 18 will be for the vacant WBO world super-middleweight championship, live on BT Sport.
Oscar De La Hoya is rightfully proud of his fighter and friend Canelo Alvarez. As the Golden Boy CEO said in question form: “I mean, who fights Golovkin back to back and then Jacobs?”
The fight between Daniel “The Miracle Man” Jacobs 35-3-0 (29 KO) and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez 52-1-2 (35 KO) at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, was an example of the Sweet Science.
Well, there was no controversy, and that’s a good thing for a sport that has seen far too much controversy over the past few weeks or so.
Canelo Alvarez (52-1-2, 34 KOs) successfully defended his WBC, WBA, Lineal and Ring Magazine Middleweight World Titles and became the new IBF Middleweight World Champion by defeating Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs (35-3, 29 KOs) via 12-round unanimous decision.
Saul Canelo Alvarez (52-1-2, 35 KOs) boxed his way to a 12 round unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs (35-3, 29 KOs) on Saturday night in their much talked about fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.