'Horrific' judges ripped as champ wins trilogy fight

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Mexican champion Canelo Alvarez dominated his aged foe Gennady Golovkin to triumph their trilogy combat and clasp his rubric arsenic undisputed ace middleweight king.

But fans and commentators were near stunned by the judges' scorecards, which work 116-112, 115-113, 115-113 successful favour of Alvarez.

Most pundits thought helium dominated Golovkin portion the scorecards suggested a overmuch person contest.

The brace shared a lukewarm clasp aft the last doorbell and paid tribute to 1 different successful the ring.

"Thankyou truthful much, my friend," Alvarez said to Golovkin.

"Thankyou for everything. We gave the fans 3 bully fights."

Four years aft the fighters' astir caller gathering ended successful a narrow, disputed triumph for Álvarez (58-2-2, 39 KOs), the four-division satellite champion near small uncertainty astir this verdict. The 32-year-old Mexican prima delivered a broad pummeling of the now-40-year-old Golovkin (42-2-1) successful the archetypal 8 rounds, repeatedly investigating Triple G's famed chin with combinations and overhand rights.

Golovkin started acold excessively dilatory with nary wide strategy to instrumentality the inaugural distant from Álvarez. Fighting astatine 168 pounds for the archetypal clip successful his career, the Kazakh middleweight prima inactive had moments of his dynamic champion successful the aboriginal rounds against a wearier Canelo, but they weren't capable to crook the bout against a younger hostile much comfy astatine ace middleweight, wherever helium reigns arsenic the undisputed champion.

The judges each scored it amazingly intimately for Álvarez: 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113. The Associated Press besides favored Canelo, 117-111.

Golovkin landed lone 23 per cent of his 521 punches, and helium lone threw 10 punches to Canelo's body, according to CompuBox. Álvarez wasn't overmuch much accurate, landing lone 26 per cent of his shots, but the Mexican prima landed 85 powerfulness punches to Golovkin's 46 and controlled the ringing for agelong stretches.

With a wide triumph to wrapper up 1 of the livelier rivalries successful caller boxing history, Álvarez rebounded splendidly from lone the 2nd nonaccomplishment of his career, a reasonably one-sided airy heavyweight decision delivered by Dmitry Bivol past May.

Golovkin has said helium won't discontinue aft this bout, but the longtime middleweight champion took lone his 2nd nonaccomplishment — and the archetypal that was decisive. All 3 blemishes connected his vocation grounds are the results of his trilogy with Álvarez.

The bitter rivals embraced and spoke warmly to each different aft the last bell, possibly signaling a thaw successful their frosty relationship.

After their archetypal 2 fights resulted successful a gully and a constrictive majority-decision triumph for Álvarez, the fighters yet met again 4 years later, again warring conscionable disconnected the Las Vegas Strip successful beforehand of a pro-Canelo crowd.

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