“Saul really is angry with Bivol, not with me, but he wants to blame me," Golovkin told Ernest Amador. "I don't care about what Canelo says or what he does, the truth is I can only tell you not to underestimate me and that without a doubt the issue of age is just a number, I'm taking this very seriously.
“I know about my legacy and what I will leave written in boxing It will remain for future generations, but without a doubt when the time comes, I will surely enjoy talking to my grandchildren, if I have them, about what I did and left as a legacy in the ring. Many Mexicans love me and nobody in Kazakhstan loves Canelo."
Canelo is mad that he got whooped by Bivol and the judges could not help him.
GGG will be 40½ years of age when he faces Canelo in September.
His record during the last four years hasn’t been good.
Golovkin didn’t look impressive against the mediocre and horrendously inactive Ryota Murata.
Gennadiy's bouts against Kamil Szeremeta and Steve Rolls were blatant mismatches. Most fans realised these were weak opponents when these bouts were announced.
Many believed GGG genuinely lost the second Canelo bout and also the Sergiy Derevyanchenko fight.
And to make matters worse, Gennadiy has been very inactive lately.
I’m not suggesting GGG is garbage by the way, but those are the facts. Recent track-record’s matter.
The 32-year-old Canelo’s record over the last the last four years is vastly superior by comparison.
And mainstream fans and die-hard’s alike expect the outcome of the third GGG-Canelo bout to be a foregone conclusion.
So I strongly suspect the self-promoted self-managed GGG realises he needs to sell the fight to maximise his payday by marketing the “grudge match” angle
I feel that Canelo is doing the same, because he’s also acting out-of-character.
And I reckon both men will be under pressure from DAZN to engage in trash-talking WWE theatrics to sell the fight, but in reality, behind closed doors,both guys actually like and respect each other.
