The Gennady Golovkin vs. Canelo Alvarez rematch might be the last time we see either man on an HBO platform in the foreseeable future.
Just days after the Los Angeles Times reported that Golovkin’s HBO contract was nearing expiration, journalist Lance Pugmire has got another scoop confirming that this is also the final fight of Canelo Alvarez’s deal with the premium cable giant.
Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler indicated that he wasn’t exactly satisfied with the $1 million purse for the Kazakhstan native’s May fight vs. Vanes Martirosyan, and according to Pugmire’s article, Golovkin himself apparently felt that “HBO seemed unsupportive of his plan to fight a replacement opponent in May after Alvarez was suspended for six months for submitting two positive tests for clenbuterol.