After holding onto his WBC and WBO crowns against Daniel Jacobs, Gennady Golovkin has set his sights on a showdown with Canelo Alvarez.
Golovkin outlasted Jacobs in a superb 12-round defence of his middleweight titles on Saturday night.
The Kazakh won 115-112 on two judges’ cards and 114-113 on the other in Madison Square Garden.
‘I thought I won it by at least two rounds, minimum,’ said Jacobs, nicknamed Miracle Man after he overcame bone cancer in 2011-12 to win 10 straight fights. ‘I did feel like I had to win the 12th round to make sure.’
He won it on two of the three cards, but it wasn’t enough, perhaps because he was knocked down in the fourth round, which went to Golovkin 10-8 on all three cards.
‘This is boxing, I need the decision,’ the 34-year-old Golovkin said. ‘I wasn’t thinking that I needed the 12th round to win the fight. This was my first test at 12 rounds. I needed a quality fight, not just the 12th round.’
Jacobs is 32-2 and lost his WBA crown to Golovkin in the HBO pay-per-view card.
