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SPORTS Friday 7 June 2019
Triple G awaits Garden bout

knowing what befell Joshua there

By BARRY WILNER "Also, Ruiz I trained togeth- loss to Alvarez for the WBA
AP Sports Writer er with. I am not surprised and WBC middleweight
NEW YORK (AP) — Gen- about this result. crowns last Sept. 15, and
nady Golovkin is all too "I could say a lot (about he has changed trainers to
aware of what happened that fight). It depends on Johnathan Banks.
last weekend at Madison your attitude." He's also looked fresh and
Square Garden. He prom- No one has ever ques- eager in workouts, and as
ises a repeat monumental tioned Golovkin's attitude, his promoter, Tom Loeffler,
boxing upset won't occur or his skills. He is 38-1-1 with mentions often, the Gar- In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019, file photo, Gennady Golovkin, of
Saturday night when he 34 knockouts. The loss and den is like his second home. Kazakhstan, boxes during a workout in New York.
meets Steve Rolls. draw were to Alvarez, and "It is good to be back at the Associated Press
Golovkin has been one of both were as close as prize Garden," Triple G said with
his generation's best cham- fights can get. a smile. "Very good." Rolls, who is facing, by far, dangerous an adversary as
pions. His two bouts with Triple G has taken on nearly Rolls could erase that smile. his most accomplished op- anyone Triple G could be
Canelo Alvarez were clas- all comers since his first U.S. The incentive certainly is ponent. Of course, so was fighting.
sics, and a third could be fight in 2012. He's beat- there for the 35-year-old Ruiz. "This is a very interesting
coming later in 2019 if Triple en Daniel Jacobs, David Canadian who is 19-0 with "I am more than ready to matchup here," he said.
G takes care of Rolls. Lemieux and Kell Brook, all 10 KOs. And he's switched take on this huge task and "Steve Rolls is fighting for his
Ah, but that's where Antho- with championship creden- dressing rooms at the Gar- the opponent presented in chance to have a new life
ny Joshua went so wrong tials. den to use the same one as front of me. I look forward and that never should be
while defending his four The 37-year-old Kazakh car- Ruiz did. to solidifying myself as one overlooked."
heavyweight belts against ries no titles into this bout. "It's been a long road and of the best in the division." Joshua did. Golovkin vows
Andy Ruiz Jr. Joshua had He hasn't fought since the a long time coming," said Banks believes Rolls is as he won't.q
his sights set more on what
figures to be ahead than
on who was in front of him
in the ring. Ruiz made him
pay.
Golovkin gives a wry smile,
shakes his head and swears
that all the tangential stuff
has been and will remain
exactly that. He notes that
all boxers should have
learned a lesson from Josh-
ua-Ruiz.
"Oh, for Joshua it was a
terrible day, and for Ruiz it
was a great day," Golovkin
said through a translator,
though his spoken English is
just fine. "That's how it was
on that night.
"There were various links
in the chain. It was Josh-
ua's first fight in the United
States, his first in Madison
Square Garden, his first with
different doping tests to
take. That was probably a
big lesson and an impor-
tant lesson for Joshua to
learn.