CANELO ALVAREZ has vowed to knock out Gennady Golovkin after the pair squared up in Los Angeles.
The duo go head-to-head for the middleweight world title on May 5 after their previous bout was controversially declared a draw.
One judge declared it a 114-114 draw, one had 115-113 win for Golovkin but another judge was lambasted for scoring the close-knit fight at 118-110 to Alvarez.
And in front of thousands of fans in LA, the pair declared judges wouldn’t be necessary this time around as Alvarez signalled his intentions to end the fight before 12 rounds.
He said: “I’m not afraid of nobody, and I’ve shown that. The first time, they were saying he was gonna knock me out and I wouldn’t fight him. And look, here we are again.
“There’s a saying in Mexico – a parrot’s green anywhere he goes. I’m not afraid of him. I’m gonna knock him out.”
Golovkin, 35, criticised the scoring in the last fight and insisted he just wants fairness this time around before also slamming the commentary.
The Kazakhstan fighter added: “I’m always for fairness. This first fight didn’t have any fairness. This type of judging is what’s hurting boxing.
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“What I saw inside the ring, and what I heard from the ringside commentary, it did not match up.
“I was disappointed in that. What I watched did not match what I heard. What it seems to me is stats and the commentary didn’t match.
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“Commentators are entitled to their own opinions. It’s not bad for me, but it’s bad for the sport. I think I won. The stats prove it and the HBO expert [Lederman] thought I won.
“And the fans thought I won. I wasn’t the one getting booed when I walked out [of the ring].”
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