Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will square off in their huge trilogy bout this weekend.
Alvarez and Golovkin will come face-to-face in the third instalment of their bitter rivalry at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas this weekend. The Mexican star will return back to 168lb to stake his undisputed titles after an unsuccessful weight switch to 175lb saw him handed a second career defeat by Dmitry Bivol.
Meanwhile his Kazakh foe will be looking to right the events of the past after being held to a draw and losing to Alvarez in their first two clashes despite many inside the sport suggesting he should have been declared the winner on both occasions.
We take a look at all you need to know ahead of this weekend's huge trilogy bout...
What time does Alvarez v Golovkin start in the UK?
This weekend's Las Vegas main event is expected to get underway on the early hours of the morning on Sunday September 18 at around 5am in the UK, with fighters making their ring walks ahead of a fight start around 5:15am.
The overall card will get underway at around 1am UK time with a whole host of top level fighters taking to the ring before the headline act including Jesse 'Bam' Rodriguez.
How to watch via TV and live stream
The trilogy bout will be broadcast exclusively live by streaming service DAZN on their pay-per-view platform. Viewers can begin a subscription to DAZN for £7.99 a month here. Existing subscribers will then be able to purchase the event at an extra cost of £9.99 in the UK while new subscribers will required to pay £16.98 which includes a one-month subscription to the platform.
Full fight card
Main Event: Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin – WBA (Super), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring super middleweight titles
Jesse Rodriguez Franco vs Israel Gonzalez – WBC super flyweight title
Ali Akhmedov vs Gabriel Rosado
Austin Williams vs Kieron Conway
Diego Pacheco vs Enrique Collazo
Marc Castro vs Kevin Montiel Mendoza
Aaron Aponte vs Fernando Angel Molina
Anthony Herrera vs Delvin McKinley
Odds
Canelo 1/6
Golovkin 10/3
Draw 25/1
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Quotes corner
Canelo: “I love boxing, but I feel more motivated for this fight. This fight was arranged before my fight with Bivol. “Golovkin won’t talk bad about me now, because I’m here. But he says that I’m scared, I’m running away, when I’m fighting the best guys out there while he’s fighting class D fighters, so that’s a lot of it.
"I hope he thinks it’s personal like I do. He always pretends he’s a nice guy, he’s all about the people. No. he is two different people. He’s just an asshole! It is what it is. I think GGG will be surprised just how much I’ve improved; my resistance and my strength will definitely surprise him.
“I will be the last guy that Golovkin fights. I will retire him – for sure! I will knock him out, and when I’m standing over him, I will feel satisfaction.”
Golovkin : “If this fight is personal for him, then it’s personal. In the fights, you learn something about your opponent, and I believe we have learned something about each other. I don’t see it as anything personal, and my question would be, why? But maybe I did not learn that well, maybe there was something I did not grasp. But that’s his problem, not mine.
“It’s hard to make predications about retirement. When you make a decision to retire, it’s generally not based on just one reason. For this fight, to have your hand raised, you have to do a lot. Both of us realize that. We commit 100% to that. We both want this to happen.
“I don’t think it’s a proper way to put it; try to get a knockout. You always put your best side out there.”
