Saul Alvarez, the undisputed world super middleweight champion, stated that Gennady Golovkin In their third fight, he was afraid of being knocked out, so he didn’t throw power punches.
“Yeah, I wanted to knock him out. I tried to do that, but if you study the fight, you'll see that he was trying to avoid getting knocked out. He never started hitting with his right hand. He didn’t throw power punches, so he was worried about my counterattacks. Accordingly, he was more focused on not losing early, which made the task more difficult.”
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