Canelo Alvarez won't fight Gennady Golovkin? Champ wants to 'fight for a title'
by Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times
May 06, 2019
3 minutes
LAS VEGAS - In his backstage exhalation, Canelo Alvarez spread his arms back wide on a couch, surrounded by championship belts on each side of him, content that the boxing world is his.
"That's the wonderful thing about being the man," said someone who would know, Alvarez's promoter, Oscar De La Hoya.
Alvarez's unanimous-decision victory in Saturday night's middleweight unification over Brooklyn's Daniel Jacobs at T-Mobile Arena both bolsters his case as the sport's No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter and provides him a wealth of leverage in negotiations for his next fight.
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