Tonight at 8 pm ET on HBO pay-per-view from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, a year of talk and increasingly nasty hype comes to an end as Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin square off in a long-awaited rematch. Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO) and Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KO) met last September and went to a highly controversial and much debated draw. Their scheduled May rematch was scrapped when Canelo failed drug tests. But now they’re ready to go, with Golovkin’s WBA and WBC middleweight titles on the line, in a fight that could be legacy-defining for the victor. There will be a three-fight televised undercard first. In the opener, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-2, 38 KO) looks to shake off two straight losses as he takes on Moises Fuentes (25-5-1, 14 KO) in a 10-round super flyweight bout. After that, middleweights David Lemieux (39-4, 33 KO) and Spike O’Sullivan (28-2, 20 KO) meet to end their own pretty nasty rivalry. And in the featured undercard bout, Jaime Munguia (30-0, 25 KO) defends the WBO junior middleweight title against Brandon Cook (20-1, 13 KO).
PPV broadcast starting momentarily. For those wondering, expect Canelo-GGG in the ring by 11 PM ET or thereabouts.
Here we go fuckers. Got the 2 TVs on th patio already set up. The crew and woman are coming over right now. Wings and food on the way. Cigars and liquor are here. Let’s fucking GO
Going to be a lottttt of filler coming up. One undercard fight left, and Munguia probably is getting an early KO too.
No doubt. We saw in his last fight before tonight that he's definitely hittable, but man, you've got to go through the fire to hit him. At that size, no one is signing up for that.
Was just wondering the same thing. Looked around. Buffer is now exclusive to Eddie Hearn’s new outlet, DAZN. He’ll be doing Joshua-Povetkin next weekend.
Abel mentioned before the fight about how a rematch is like taking a test, then taking the same test a week later and knowing the questions/answers. Not sure GGG has the answers so far for how to get inside consistently on Canelo.