Canelo vs GGG 3 LIVE!
Saul Canelo Alvarez settled his long-running feud with Gennady Golovkin by producing a dominant victory in Las Vegas on Saturday night. The pound-for-pound great executed the perfect gameplan in front of a partisan crowd on Mexican Independence weekend at the T-Mobile Arena, cruising to a comfortable unanimous decision win that finally closes the book on one of modern boxing’s most enduring and high-profile recent rivalries.
Canelo plans to avenge his shock defeat by light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol next after retaining his undisputed super-middleweight status, but first he will require a rest and likely surgery on a long-running left hand injury. Golovkin, meanwhile, says he has no plans to retire aged 40 and could now seek to become undisputed back at middleweight, where he is still a unified champion.
An intriguing undercard tonight saw boxing’s youngest active world champion Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez successfully defend his WBC super-flyweight title against Israel Gonzalez, while Britain’s Kieron Conway was bested by Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams and Gabriel Rosado was shut out by Ali Akhmedov.
Boxing schedule and results
Canelo Alvarez bt Gennady Golovkin
Jesse Rodriguez bt Israel Gonzalez
Ali Akhmedov bt Gabriel Rosado
Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams bt Kieron Conway
Diego Pacheco bt Enrique Collazo
Marc Castro bt Kevin Montiel Mendoza
Aaron Aponte draw Fernando Molina
Anthony Herrera bt Delvin McKinley
