The now retired Mikey Garcia was in London this past weekend and gave his prediction on the September 17 fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin.
Last month the former four-weight world champion made one small change to his Instagram bio which read ‘Retired World Champ’. Confirmation soon came that the 34-year-old had indeed hung up the gloves after 15 years in the ring. His last fight was a surprising 10-round majority decision defeat to Spain’s Sandor Martin in October last year.
On Saturday night Garcia was at the O2 Arena to take in the main event which saw heavyweight Dereck Chisora avenge his loss to Kubart Pulev six years ago by winning on a split decision.
Boxing Social’s Ayman Khan caught up with Garcia afterwards and amongst other subjects asked him for his Canelo-Golovkin 3 prediction.
“I think Canelo wins. I think Canelo stops GGG this time.”
“I like GGG, I’ve been a fan, but I think at this time of their career I think Canelo wins by knockout.”
If his prediction is right, it would set the record at two wins for Canelo, a draw with no victory for Golovkin and would surely draw a line under the rivalry.
Canelo defends his Undisputed Super Middleweight crown against his rival on September 17 at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. He is going into the fight on the back of a loss having suffered only the second defeat of his career when challenging Dmitry Bivol for the WBA light heavyweight title in May.
Golvovkin celebrated his 40th birthday on April 8 and 24 hours gave himself the perfect present by unifying the middleweight division stopping Ryota Murata after nine hard fought rounds in Saitama, Japan.