Alvarez, Golovkin fight to a draw
Las Vegas: It wasn’t anywhere close to Hagler-Hearns, and it’s probably not the Fight of the Year, but Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez gave the sell-out crowd of 22,358 at T-Mobile Arena its money’s worth in their heavily hyped middleweight title fight yesterday despite a deflating outcome.
A hard-fought, close and competitive fight was a split draw, with Adalaide Byrd favoring Alvarez 118-110, Dave Moretti taking Golovkin 115-113 and Don Trella calling it even 114-114. Yahoo Sports had it 115-113 for Golovkin.
Byrd’s card appeared way out of line in a fight in which Golovkin attacked all night and repeatedly backed Alvarez to the ropes. Byrd only gave the fourth and the seventh to Golovkin and appeared to see a different fight than everyone else. Yahoo Sports
The heavily pro-Alvarez crowd booed as he was interviewed by HBO Sports’ Max Kellerman in the ring after the bout. There were no knockdowns, but there were plenty of hard shots landed by each man.
After a relatively slow start, the fight picked up a pace by the third round and its flow was similar.
Golovkin would race after Alvarez and fire rights. But Alvarez boxed smartly, backing up but countering well. Alvarez landed a series of good body shots, including one in the 10th that appeared to make Golovkin wince. Golovkin went hard to the body as well, but he landed more head shots and several times appeared to hurt Alvarez.
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