By Radio Rahim
IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence is really looking forward to the biggest fight in the middleweight division and currently the biggest fight in boxing, when IBF, IBO, WBC, WBA world champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) will defend his belts against Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs).
After two years of hype, they will collide in the main event of an HBO Pay-Per-View event on September 16th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
The contest will be the first for Canelo at the full middleweight limit of 160-pounds.
captured the IBF title with an eleven round stoppage win over Kell Brook back in May.
Coming into that fight, Brook was coming off a five round TKO loss at the hands of Golovkin. For that contest, Brook moved up by two full weight divisions. Prior to suffering a fractured right orbital bone, which eventually led to his corner stopping the fight in the fifth round, Brook gave Golovkin some fits with his hand speed and rapid combinations that were landing right on the button.
Brook was not big enough to seriously hurt Golovkin, but Canelo is more than big enough.
Golovkin is used to applying the pressure and breaking down his opponents, round by round, until they crumble. But Spence believes the opposite will happen when GGG collides with Canelo.
The former Olympian believes Canelo will be too fast, too active and will turn the tables on GGG by outworking him to secure a career defining victory.
"I'm going for Canelo. I think Canelo is faster. I think fundamentally he throws more punches, even though they are in spurts, he throws punches from different angles. He just lets his hands go more than Triple G. I feel like Triple G throws only one shot at a time. I feel like Canelo is going to press the issue and win," Spence told BoxingScene.com.
2023-10-19 02:18:36
