Gennadiy Golovkin definitely didn’t get the result he wanted on Saturday, losing a decision to Canelo Alvarez that nobody is arguing with other than thinking the judges scored the fight too close, but the 40-year-old GGG says he will fight on.
Golovkin (42-2-1, 37 KO) said in the ring post-fight that he would look to continue in the ring, as he still holds the WBA and IBF middleweight titles, and stressed that he has no intention to retire during his post-fight press conference.
GGG also talked about his approach in the fight, his success in the latter rounds, and whether Canelo (58-2-2, 39 KO) was better than before. On starting slow in the fight
“It probably was a tactical mistake on my part to start slow, but on the other hand we wanted to see how the fight would develop. I believe we both started rather slowly, did some reconnaissance, and that reconnaissance probably went too long for me.” On the scoring of the fight
“It’s not up to me to talk about scoring. I just did my job, and if judges came up with those scores, that’s their decision.” On what he’d planned to do pre-fight
“The strategy was to win this fight, and we shouldn’t attribute my loss to the strategy. I felt great and those minor shots with which Canelo was successful did not surprise me. Maybe I was not that successful with my shots, and ultimately the judges scored in his favor.” On how he and Canelo “squashed the beef” so quickly post-fight
“I’ve always said I did not feel any animosity in our rivalry; he was the one who said it was personal. My response to that was, ‘Why did he wait so many years for this fight to happen?’ But after the fight, when we looked each other in the eye, we had no (issues) toward each other anymore. We congratulated each other, we said, ‘Excellent fight,’ and we moved on. We realize that at this level, this sport is so dangerous. We were very content with how this fight played out and how our rivalry ended.”
