
Over the course of 12 rounds in Las Vegas on Saturday night, “GGG” took on an unfortunate new meaning for Gennady Golovkin, as his chances of securing “justice” in his trilogy with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez were rapidly going, going, and then gone at last.
Judging controversies marred the rivals’ first two encounters, in 2017 and 2018, denying Golovkin one if not two victories over Canelo, and the irony on this occasion was that the Kazakh might have finally been on the “right” end of one, had he not left it too late to start firing.