By Keith Idec

Austin Trout wasn’t the least bit surprised Gennady Golovkin didn’t get the credit on the scorecards he deserved against Canelo Alvarez.

Trout knows all too well what it’s like to box well against Alvarez, only to have one judge score the fight as if it were a blowout. When Alvarez beat Trout in April 2013, judge Stanley Christodoulou scored what was a competitive 12-round bout 118-109 for Alvarez.

The former WBA super welterweight champion felt for Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) once the IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion was forced to settle for a 12-round draw September 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Like virtually everyone else, Trout was appalled by judge Adalaide Byrd’s scorecard, 118-110 for Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs).

“I thought Golovkin won the fight,” Trout told BoxingScene.com. “At the same time, Canelo did show that he’s got a hell of a chin and he’s got a hell of a punch and he’s got a nice set of balls. But I didn’t think he won the fight. I think a draw was ridiculous, too.

“But they didn’t downright rob Golovkin with the loss, which I guess he should be thankful for in this boxing game. Dealing with Canelo, as we know and as we’ve seen, any close fight is gonna go his way. They even tried to rob Floyd Mayweather when he fought Canelo, and he’s the ‘Money’ man. So Golovkin should be happy he got the draw.”

Trout referred to judge C.J. Ross scoring the one-sided Mayweather-Alvarez fight a draw (114-114). Mayweather won a majority decision over Alvarez because the two other judges – Craig Metcalfe (117-111) and Dave Moretti (116-112) – scored the fight for him.

The 32-year-old Trout, a southpaw from Las Cruces, New Mexico, is preparing to challenge IBF junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (20-0, 14 KOs) on October 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn (Showtime). He hopes at some point, though, to get a rematch with Alvarez.

“I don’t think Canelo’s coming back down to junior middleweight,” Trout said. “I’m comfortable at junior middleweight, but for the right fight, I wouldn’t mind going to middleweight.”

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.