Canelo Álvarez v Gennady Golovkin II: world middleweight championship – live!

16 September 2018 01:43
Golovkin defends WBA and WBC titles against Álvarez in rematchTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.43am BST Jaime Munguia has just defended his WBO junior middleweight title with a third-round TKO of Canada’s Brandon Cook. The 21-year-old emerging star from Tijuana dominated from the opening bell, dropping Cook early in the third before referee Tony Weeks waved it off at the 1:03 mark. Munguia improves to 31-0 with 26 knockouts.And so the three televised undercard bouts have ended in a fifth-round TKO, a first-round KO and a third-round TKO. The last one ended at 9:32pm local time, which means we’ve got at least an hour and a half of time to kill before Álvarez and Golovkin make their ringwalks. Should make for an interesting telecast. 2.19am BST Two of the three televised preliminary bouts are in the books. They lasted a combined six rounds. The second was finished at about 8:45pm local time and Álvarez and Golovkin won’t be making their ringwalks any sooner than 11pm. That means broadcasters will have a lot of time to kill between now and the main event.In the opener Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, the former four-division world champion from Nicaragua, stopped Mexico’s Moises Fuentes with a vicious one-punch knockout. 2.11am BST Hello and welcome to the Las Vegas strip for tonight’s hotly anticipated rematch between Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin. We’re ringside at the T-Mobile Arena where a capacity crowd of more than 22,000 is expected to watch two of the most accomplished fighters of their generation attempt to stamp a definitive conclusion on what’s become a highly caustic rivalry since their first meeting last year ended in controversy.That first encounter was a contest of extreme physical and psychological intensity, a rare superfight that managed to not only meet but exceed the hype. Until, that is, the decision. Most at ringside, in the crowd and watching at home believed the Kazakh knockout artist known as Triple G did enough to win on points. But the official verdict – including the mystifying score of 118-110 to Álvarez handed down by Adalaide Byrd – was a widely disputed split draw that denied Golovkin what should have been the defining moment of his career. 11.30pm BST Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s his report from Friday’s weigh-in. Related: Gennady Golovkin scoffs at 'clown' Canelo Álvarez at contentious weigh-in Continue readingread full article

Source: TheGuardian