LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez has become an avid golfer, and while the undisputed super middleweight champion is unlikely to approach his many great feats he's accomplished in the ring on the golf course, he concedes that playing golf has helped him in boxing in at least one way.
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY - JUNE 30: Canelo Alvarez plays his tee shot on the 7th hole during day one of the ICON Series at Liberty National Golf Club on June 30, 2022 in Jersey City, New Jersey. has become an avid golfer, and while the undisputed super middleweight champion is unlikely to approach his many great feats he's accomplished in the ring on the golf course, he concedes that playing golf has helped him in boxing in at least one way.
Alvarez’s most recent “bad shot” was a loss in May to Dmitriy Bivol in a bid for a light heavyweight championship. Alvarez was the consensus pound-for-pound king of the sport heading into that bout, but the loss to Bivol knocked him off of that perch. And so if the Bivol fight was a bad shot in golf, he’s put it in the past and is looking ahead toward the next one.
Strong legs are critical for a boxer and Alvarez did some remarkable things while at less than his best in the past four years: He defeated Golovkin in their rematch, he stopped Sergei Kovalev to win a light heavyweight belt and he became the undisputed super middleweight champion.He doesn’t hide the fact that he wants a win on Saturday, badly. He’s one of boxing’s fiercest competitors, but he carries an enmity for Golovkin that he can’t contain. It seeps into his conversations repeatedly.
That comment brought to light the reason why Golovkin and Alvarez don’t get along. There was no bad blood between them in the first fight, but before the second fight, Alvarez failed two anti-doping tests, testing positive for the banned substance clenbuterol. “He can say whatever he wants, but he doesn’t know anything about what happened with me,” Alvarez said. “He knows what happened with him, but you can’t judge other fighters because you never know what happened.”
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