MEXICAN FIGHTER Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has agreed to a 5 May rematch against three-belt middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, the Los Angeles Times reported last night.
The report said Golovkin’s camp was expected to greenlight the bout in “the next few days”, noting there was no rematch clause for a third fight in the agreement.
“It’s going to be another great fight, so it’ll likely be a natural to do another rematch, but it’s not in the agreement,” promoter Eric Gomez told the Los Angeles Times at a workout for welterweight title fighter Lucas Matthysse in Indio, California, east of Los Angeles.
“We want to concentrate on getting this (second Alvarez-Golovkin fight) done and then we can talk about a third fight later,” added Gomez, president of Golden Boy Promotions.
Undefeated Golovkin, who was making his Las Vegas debut, and Alvarez fought to a draw in a 16 September thriller that lived up to its hype as a showdown between the top two middleweights in the world.
Kazakhstan’s Golovkin, 35, came away from the bout with a record of 37-0-1 with 33 wins inside the distance and kept his World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation belts.
Both he and 27-year-old Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) said they wanted a rematch.
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Sorry… England Argentina 1998, Owens class goal Beckham sending off… that was a game and a half.
I agree that game had everything but welbecks goal last might was fantastic.
Sorry, that is actually meant to say Euro 2004… not Euro 94 (it as a World Cup that year!) … agreed. The Argentina game was exceptional.
even Andy Carroll’s goal was a cracker
Englands tactics were well thought out. Hodgson got so much right recognising Swedens weakness in central defence with Carroll coming in , his inspired substitution to bring on Walcott, and imagine how long Welbeck would have to wait for his chance under Trappatoni
The match last night was exciting and unpredictable. That’s how to do it!
Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck injected a unique enthusiasm to England’s play again.
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