Gennady Golovkin: 'If it's so personal to Canelo, why did he wait four years?'

If the build-up to one of boxing’s much-anticipated trilogies in recent memory has been fuelled by uncharacteristically intensified trash talk from Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, then it doesn’t seem to have landed too cleanly on its intended target.

If at all.

“To be honest, I do not think about anything Canelo says,” Gennady Golovkin tells The National from his US base, ahead of this weekend’s blockbuster third skirmish with Alvarez in Las Vegas.

“If this fight was so ‘personal’ to him, why did he wait four years for it? Maybe he is trying to be like a promoter and sell the fight. Maybe he is just trying to motivate himself. Maybe he is looking for attention."

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