Gennady Golovkin: record, next fight and profile →
By Andreas Hale - There’s no need to waste any time. A rematch between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin needs to be solidified for Cinco De Mayo weekend in Las Vegas. Aside from agreeing on the money split and the other financial nuances, it shouldn’t take much to get a rematch of their hotly contested split dr...
Future Hall of Famer and Golden Boy shareholder Bernard Hopkins was very impressed with Canelo Alvarez's performance against Gennady Golovkin on September 16th. The blockbuster pay-per-view event took place in front of a record crowd at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The two boxers fought to a controversial twelve round split draw. The final scores were 115-113 for Golovkin, 114-114 and Adalaide Byrd's infamous 118-110 score for Alvarez.
By Keith Idec - It took less than two minutes Wednesday for much of the Twitter world to declare Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin, the fight that took nearly two years to happen, a complete commercial failure. The criticism was so strong among some fans, you would’ve thought that the that the Los Angeles T...
According to the World Boxing Council, they received a report from the Voluntary Doping Agency (VADA), and they detailed to the sanctioning body that both Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Gennady "GGG" Golovkin came up clean in all of their pre and post-fight anti-doping tests.
While everyone at Golden Boy Promotions and GGG Promotions appreciate the media's recognition that the fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin was an enormous success, the figure that is being cited by some news outlets is simply inaccurate.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin middleweight title fight on Sept. 16 generated $27,059,850 from 17,318 tickets sold, according to figures released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin didn’t come anywhere near the “close to 3 million” domestic pay-per-view buys promoter Oscar De La Hoya predicted, but their middleweight title fight easily surpassed 1 million buys. The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that Alvarez-Golovkin generated 1.3 million buys in the United States. Mexico’s Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) and Kazakhstan’s Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) fought to a controversial 12-round draw September 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin delivered at the box office, too. The card featuring their entertaining middleweight championship bout September 16 generated more revenue from tickets sales than all but two events in boxing history. According to information released by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, Alvarez-Golovkin produced $27,059,850 in revenue from 17,318 tickets sold to their 12-round draw at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Mexican superstar Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) has made it clear that he wants a rematch with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KOs) in 2018 - and he wants that fight before anything else. The two boxers collided on September 16th in a high profile fight from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
A healthy amount of boxing fans took another long look at the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin fight Saturday night. According to Nielsen Media Research ratings released Tuesday, the replay of their 12-round draw was watched by a peak audience of 840,000 viewers. An average of 726,000 viewers tuned in to see another airing of their highly competitive middleweight title fight from the previous Saturday night.