MOSCOW, Sep 18 Kazakh boxer Gennady Golovkin said he hopes for an impartial refereeing in a duel against the world champion according to the World Boxing Association (WBA), the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the World Boxing Council (WBC) and the International Boxing Federation (IBF) in the second middleweight Mexican Saul Alvarez. night of September 18 in Las Vegas. All four of Alvarez's super middleweight titles will be on the line. Golovkin, for whom this fight will be his debut in the division, will retain the WBA and IBF middleweight titles. «I really hope that the judges will evaluate our fight impartially. That they will be as reasonable as possible,» Boxing Scene quotes Golovkin. noted that Alvarez did not look his best in a light heavyweight bout against World Boxing Association (WBA Super) world champion Russian Dmitry Bivol. «I didn't like the way Alvarez looked during this fight. I don't want to belittle Dmitry Bivol's performance, don't get me wrong Bivol deserved the win. I just want to say that Alvarez didn't look his best. He didn't show what he was capable of.» I am sure that during our fight he will be a different fighter,» said Golovkin. The first fight between Alvarez and Golovkin took place in September 2017 in the USA and ended in a draw. In September 2018, Golovkin lost his WBA Super and WBC titles to the Mexican. This defeat was the first in the professional career of a boxer from Kazakhstan. Golovkin won 42 professional victories (37 by knockout), suffered one defeat and one fight ended in a draw. On account of the 32-year-old Alvarez won 57 fights (39 by knockout), two failures and two draw fights.
