This Saturday, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will be fighting for the second time.
When you watch as many fights as I do, you develop an incurable disease which forces you to make comparisons between fighters from different eras. And, being an ill man, I often look at the basic tenets of Canelo Alvarez’s style and think of the great James Toney. The specifics of technique are often quite different, of course--Canelo can shoulder roll, and pretty nicely, but he has yet to master the technique half as well as a fighter like Floyd Mayweather, and frankly, not even Floyd understood the shoulder roll as well as Toney, nor ever felt comfortable using it in so many different…
