Canelo Alvarez Open To One More Fight Against Gennadiy Golovkin Under One Condition: “It Would Be At 168 Pounds”

By: Hans Themistode

Canelo Alvarez made a bit extra room on his championship mantle. The unified tremendous middleweight titlist added the WBO belt beforehand held by Billy Joe Saunders to his WBA, WBC and Ring Journal champions. The 2 confronted off this previous weekend on the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

Saunders, 31, referred to as it an evening on the finish of the eighth spherical after struggling a quadripod facial fracture. With the win, Alvarez is just one title away from turning into the primary undisputed tremendous middleweight of all time. So as to take action, Alvarez will look to tackle IBF titlist, Caleb Plant.

Whereas negotiations between each side are but to start, present IBF middleweight champion, and long-time rival, Gennadiy Golovkin, could try and interject. With the pair sharing an extended historical past with each other, Alvarez admits that the 2 could meet within the ring as soon as extra. Be that as it might, Golovkin must wait his flip.

“The reality is, I’m open for something,” stated Alvarez throughout an interview with Ring Journal. “If the combat occurs after unifying at 168 kilos, I’m open for something.”

For Golovkin, the longer term first-ballot Corridor of Famer nonetheless has a bone to select with Alvarez. In September of 2017, the Kazakstan native was compelled to accept a extremely controversial break up resolution draw towards Alvarez. Unhappy with the outcomes, Golovkin opted to have a direct rematch and was subsequently defeated for the primary time in his profession by way of majority resolution.

Since then, Golovkin has gotten again to his profitable methods, stopping each Steve Rolls and Kamil Szeremeta whereas sandwiching a choice victory towards Sergiy Derevyanchenko in between. Alvarez, after all, has been busy including up the wins as nicely. The pound-for-pound star has picked up world titles at middleweight, tremendous middleweight and light-weight heavyweight earlier than in the end settling in at tremendous middleweight.

Though Golovkin has now been a professional for a decade and a half, he has spent his complete profession within the middleweight division. Regardless of Golovkin’s consolation at 160 kilos, Alvarez is having fun with his time eight kilos north. If Golovkin expects to get his arms on the Mexican star one ultimate time, he’ll must marketing campaign at the next weight class for the primary time in his profession.

“I’m open for something, however it will be at 168 kilos,” continued Alvarez. “If he desires the combat with me, he has to do it. Why wouldn’t he do it? I went up from 154 as much as 160 to combat with him. I’ve fought lots of good fighters, lots of champions. I beat him.”