Canelo Alvarez has revealed he went into Saturday night’s fight with Gennadiy Golovkin carrying an injury.
The Mexican superstar has torn the cartilage in the wrist of his left hand and he admitted the pain it caused him was “really bad”.
“It hurts everywhere. I had these issues since the Caleb Plant fight. I was like it’s okay, it’s okay, later, later, then it started [to get] really bad. I need surgery,” Alvarez said.
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Alvarez lashes his right to the body of Golovkin
Despite the injury he roundly outboxed Golovkin over 12 rounds to bring an end to their rivalry, win a unanimous decision and defend his unified WBC, IBF, WBA and WBO super-middleweight titles.
“With my hand problems I outjabbed the best jabber in the world in Gennadiy Golovkin,” Alvarez said.
“I think towards the end of the fight I obviously started to get a bit fatigued and that’s because we’ve not been able to work explosively in the gym. But despite all the problems that we’ve had, I was really happy with my performance tonight,” he added.
“I wanted to get that KO but it didn’t come because he’s a great fighter. That’s why there are 12 round
