Johnathon Banks, the head trainer for WBA, IBF, IBO middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin, has put together a carefully crafted gameplan to take down Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez.

The two boxers will collide for a third time on Saturday night, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Canelo (57-2-2, 39 KOs) is coming off his first career defeat since 2013, when he lost a twelve round decision to WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in May.

Golovkin (42-1-1, 37 KOs) is moving up to the super middleweight limit to challenge Canelo for his undisputed championship.

Abel Sanchez trained Golovkin for his first two encounters with Canelo. The first, in 2017, ending in a controversial twelve round split decision. And in 2018, Canelo won a close twelve round majority decision.

Banks did not bother studying the first two fights.

"I didn't have to do much studying because I've seen them so many times... nobody really studies 'GGG' because they've seen him so many times over the years," Banks told the Los Angeles Times. "You learn ways on how to fight him, so for me, I don't have to look at his first two fights and see what we can do here or there.

“I think both fighters fight extremely different today than they did the first two times, they are really different. Canelo established himself in boxing from those two fights, as a mega puncher. He was not known as a puncher, nor as a fighter who moves up or down divisions, but now he's a fighter who moves up and is now bigger, like a heavyweight.

"I think the media gives too much attention to [Golovkin's] age. Some people feel that as soon as you reach a certain age, you have to retire. Some fighters can perform into old age and some can't, Golovkin still looks great."