Canelo Álvarez Upsets Gennady Golovkin In Rematch

Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez eked out a narrow majority decision win over Gennady “GGG” Golovkin in Las Vegas tonight to hand the Kazakh slugger his first career loss and snag the WBA, WBC, and IBO championship belts. The rematch was a much closer fight than the first go-round, which GGG won in the ring but was ruled a draw because of a truly Dadaist scorecard from Adelaide Byrd. Canelo earned his victory in the early rounds, as he got inside GGG’s longer arms and mixed up his punches nicely.