This month should’ve featured the rematch between unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) and Canelo Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs), but Canelo’s drug test failure for clenbuterol led to the bout’s cancellation and a six-month ban for Alvarez. Golovkin wound up boxing Vanes Martirosyan on a regular HBO card, knocking out the Edmond Tarverdyan trained fighter in just two rounds.
With the glorified stay-busy bout now completed, you would think that it’s full speed ahead to booking the rematch again, but this is boxing, and you know it’s never that simple.
The revenue split for the first fight was 70-30 in Canelo’s favor, with the May 5th rematch supposedly marked at 65-35.