most people here would pick Canelo to lose and probably score it a shutout for GGG regardless of what happens. at 168 Canelo has an advantage this time. however I did score both fights for GGG
I'm not optimistic about the outcome for GGG, but will for sure be an action fight. Better than some choices he could have made, I imagine. Sure I wanna' see Alvarez fight Benevidez but I doubt that GGG (even at 40) will end up being any kind of cherry pick.
This is a fight where the longtime middleweight champion is moving up tp fight the undisputed, unified super middleweight champion. This is what you want in boxing on a more regular basis. It's made even better by the fact that their first two fights are hotly disputed by fans and the fighters. Where they are in their careers and what skills they still possess are facts and details used to decide who you think is going to win and how they will do it. You don't pass up this opportunity just because it may be a mismatch.
As a fan I have absolutely no interest in this fight GGG got beat tf up last fight and outside of seeing him get KO’d to quiet his remedial fans I’d rather see something fresh. Saying that though even though GGG has avoided Andrade and Charlo, on paper him unifying vs a weak Murata and being IBF&WBA 160 Champ is better than anybody else you can name currently which speaks more on lack of ambition of other fighters than GGG being a good fight so if it must happen I can’t be mad and will likely be laughing by the end of the fight.
I get why some of their die hard fans would want to see it and sure there's still plenty of beef between the two fighters but Golovkin looked horrible in his last fight. Yeah he turned it around but if he starts that slowly vs Canelo he has no chance of winning on the scorecards. While it's not as bad as say Bhop/RJJ 2, this fight really is meaningless because one of them is way over the hill. Even if Canelo shuts Golovkin out this time and everyone recognises it as a clear win it wouldn't alter the reality that it was an old GGG and that the first 2 fights are still highly controversial for many. There's better fights out there to be made for Canelo. Fighting GGG is just retreading old ground and people would say he now just cherry picked an old GGG. I'd rather see him rematch Bivol or fight Benavidez or if he really wants to make a statement take on Beterbiev.
I'm not interested, for reasons already stated; Golovkin does nothing for Canelo in 2022 except make him some bucks, and Canelo can make bucks regardless. Leave the Kazakh stood with his hand out, I'd much rather see Canelo-Benavidez.
