A victory wouldn’t have much of an impact on Canelo Alvarez’s legacy given Gennadiy Golovkin’s current limitations; a loss could damage it significantly, Michael Rosenthal (mrosenthal_box) writes.
Canelo Alvarez is in a no-win situation if you put a guaranteed windfall aside.
However, potential disaster lurks ominously around the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue in Las Vegas, the site of T-Mobile Arena.Golovkin isn’t what he used to be but he can’t be written off entirely, as some seem to be doing. He has only lost once in his 16-year professional career, after all. And he remains an elite fighter if you put stock in his middleweight titles and four victories following the second fight with Alvarez.
He had seemed to be all but unbeatable after that, reeling off a series of impressive victories over elite opponents to build a Hall of Fame career and climb to the pinnacle of the sport. And he was hot as ever as recently as last year, when he knocked out Billy Joe Saunders and Caleb Plant to become the undisputed 168-pound champion.No one was surprised that he made the decision to challenge the talented Bivol, a light heavyweight titleholder.
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