Now retired Mikey Garcia was in London last weekend and gave his prediction for the September 17 match between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin.
Last month, the former four-weight world champion made a small change to his Instagram bio. ‘Retired World Champ’. Confirmation soon came that the 34-year-old had indeed hung up his gloves after 15 years in the ring. His last game was a surprise 10 inning loss to Spain’s Sandor Martin last October.
On Saturday night, Garcia was at the O2 Arena for the main event considered heavyweight Dereck Chisora avenges his loss to Kubart Pulev six years before winning a split decision.
Boxing Social’s Ayman Khan catches up with Garcia then and among other subjects asked him about his Canelo-Golovkin 3 prediction.
“I think Canelo wins. I think Canelo stops GGG this time.”
“I like GGG, I’m a fan, but I think at this point in their career I think Canelo will win by knockout.”
If his prediction is correct, it will set a record with two wins for Canelo, a draw without a win for Golovkin and a draw for sure.
Canelo defends his undisputed super-middle class took the crown against his opponent on September 17 at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas. He will join the fight after losing suffered only the second failure of his career when challenging Dmitry Bivol for the WBA light heavyweight title in May.
Golvovkin celebrates his 40th birthdayorder birthdays on April 8 and 24 o’clock gave themselves the perfect gift by unifying the middleweight division to stop Ryota Murata after nine tough rounds in Saitama, Japan.
