By: Sean Crose
Oscar De La Hoya is unimpressed with former protégé Canelo Alvarez’ efficiency in opposition to arch rival Gennady Golovkin final September. Canelo defeated Golovkin handily of their third battle, however De Ha Hoya tells FightHype Canelo shouldn’t have needed to win by choice. “It was boring,” De La Hoya says of the tremendous middleweight title bout. “It was slow. I actually expected Canelo to knock him out…and that’s exactly what he should have done.” As far as De La Hoya is worried, Canelo at his finest places the Golovkin of 2022 away. “If Canelo throws three, four, five punch combinations,” says De La Hoya, “and presses the action and has the conditioning, he knocks out GGG hands down.”
De La Hoya admits Golovkin’s age might have had one thing to do with the Kazakh warriors’ lower than stellar ring efficiency. “He’s an old forty,” De Ha Hoya says of Golovkin. “Bernard Hopkins was a young forty.” De La Hoya makes it clear Golovkin couldn’t have saved time from altering, however that Canelo may have taken benefit of Golovkin’s age. “Father time catches up to you man, that’s it,” De La Hoya says “If Canelo would have taken advantage of that, he’d have knocked him out.”
Although few if any observers felt Golovkin regarded nice in September’s battle, De La Hoya signifies that the person might have a street again to redemption. “A fight against Jaime Munguia would be perfect for both guys,” he says. “Golovkin beating a Jaime Munguia would get him back on top…among the hard core boxing fans he would be on top of the world again.” As for Canelo, De La Hoya is vital of extra than simply the person’s efficiency final September. “As a fan,” he says, “I don’t like that Canelo is beating the drum that he doesn’t want to fight Mexican fighters.”
De La Hoya stays puzzled in regards to the concern. “I don’t really understand it,” he says. “I think any Mexican fighter out there that has a name, that has a record, that has a world title, can be very dangerous for Canelo.” The man referred to as the “Golden Boy” throughout his ring profession might really feel that is significantly true now that Canelo did not impress him within the third Golovkin battle. “The first and second fights were a lot better,” he says. “It seemed like if Canelo couldn’t take it to second gear maybe he was worried about conditioning.” And why would that be? “Maybe something happened in his camp,” De La Hoya stated.
