HBO television channel analyst and commentator Jim Lampley expressed his opinion on the rematch between the WBC middleweight champion, WBA (Super) and IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) Mexican Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs).
“No question in my mind GGG and Abel have for months now been engaged in psychological warfare aimed at luring Canelo Alvarez into being more aggressive,” Lampley responded. “Makes all the sense in the world for them to do that. The question, as you sense, is how does Alvarez react?
“Hard for me to believe there isn’t a part of his character that would like to not just win, but win in the role of GGG, aggressively destroying the destroyer. This is made more tempting by the reality that Gennady won the first fight, but not in the role of GGG. He was actually a little more of a middleweight Lomachenko that night, gaining his edge from the jab and body positioning more than from sheer power. So there is pressure on both fighters to give a little more to the audience," said Lampley to badlefthook.com.