Saul Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin is official! HBO Boxing announced the middleweight super fight after Canelo coasted to a unanimous decision against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in Las Vegas.
The pair posed in the dismounted ring and will meet on September 16 with a venue yet to be announced.
It is thought that the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium is a contender along with the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Alvarez had an easy night’s work against Chavez Jr, winning every round on all three judges’ score cards for a unanimous decision (120-108 X 3).
Golovkin had a far more difficult fight in his last outing, with a tight decision against Daniel Jacobs – many contested the American edged it in the Kazakh’s toughest night of his career.
The highly-anticipated fight will also likely decide who is the pound-for-pound No.1 in the sport with the winner of Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev also a contender.
