The boxing world expressed utter disappointment when Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin didn't fight on Saturday night even though Alvarez said this to Golovkin, while the undisputed middleweight champion was in the ring after he knocked out Amir Khan in May.
"I invited him to come to the ring," Canelo told HBO's Max Kellerman. "Like we say in Mexico 'we don't f—k around.' I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport. I fear no one in this sport. Right now I will put on the gloves again and fight him."
Well, Alvarez put on the gloves on Saturday night, knocking out an overmatched Liam Smith in the ninth round recapture a junior middleweight title in front of 51,240 people at AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas.