by Steve Kim

In the wake of his latest bout, many are wondering where the once relentless body attack of Gennady Golovkin has gone. While the majority of observers believed he did enough to beat Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, he had to settle for a disputed draw.

The two fought this past Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with Golovkin retaining his IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight belts after scores of 118-110 (Canelo), 115-113 (Golovkin) and 114-114 came down.

But the question has to be asked: why didn't Golovkin go downstairs more in this fight?

The question was posed to his trainer Abel Sanchez, who explained to BoxingScene.com in a recent interview - "I asked him in the corner. I just don't think that he saw the possibility going there. We had a guy with a lot of mobility that was countering well. I just think he didn't see those. I asked him several times in the corner to go to the body and not even so much to the body but punch just a little bit lower.

"They see things different than what we see and I said this in an interview before, he'd only gone eleven or twelve rounds once before so that right there... when you're knocking everybody out, your confidence on going twelve is a little bit different when you have a lot of twelve rounders and you know how the fight is going to go. So I think that had a little bit to do with it, but I think this was a fight that we as a corner and he as a fighter have to learn from, have to see what we're going to do different and what we're going to do different.

"I did ask him in the corner, like I said, in his mind he didn't see the shots."

Credit has to be given to Alvarez, who has very good upper body movement and has become adept at slipping punches and countering.

There is a lot of talk of a rematch between the two and already Sanchez has begun to mentally prepare for it as a trainer.

''Oh, absolutely," stated Sanchez, who arrived back to Big Bear on Monday night.

"That Sunday we were talking about that. We talked a little bit about what we could've done different, Max (Golovkin), Gennady and I, we talked. But until we let him digest it a little bit and let him rest, than we'll talk about it some more."

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.