Gennady Golovkin has hit out at rival Canelo Alvarez's "indecent" behaviour after the pound-for-pound king branded their rival personal.
The Kazakh star is set to face Japanese fighter Ryota Murata in a unification clash in April - and victory should set up a trilogy bout against Alvarez in September. A war of words was ignited by Alvarez who blamed Golovkin for their rival becoming personal and accused the middleweight champion of "talking s***".
Golovkin has now fired back at Alvarez by claiming that he has not said one bad word about his failed drug test and has just followed the "proof". “I’ll be honest with you. If he believes it was something I said and that it was personal, where has he been all these years? Three or four years already," Golovkin told Ariel Helwani.
“If it’s personal, what has he been waiting for? Secondly, I have not said anything bad, whatever has been said was tied to those scandals, and he was the cause of those scandals. There were arguments and proof. It’s not me, it’s the entire world, If he believes I’m talking s***. That’s the entire world using the arguments and everything can be proven.
“For him to be making arguments now and framing it in this way it’s kind of low, I would say. It’s kind of mean. It’s indecent behaviour and I do not have any hate. I honestly don’t talk about him at all."
Alvarez failed two drugs tests three days apart in 2018 when he tested positive for banned substance clenbuterol, which saw him handed a six-month suspension. He attributed the positive tests on both February 17 and February 20 to tainted meat consumed in Mexico.
The Mexican has shared the ring with the Kazakh star twice before with honours controversially shared even in their opening clash with Golovkin aggrieved not to have been handed the decision. The pair later renewed their rivalry at the back end of 2018 after Alvarez's suspension when the Mexican prevailed by a narrow majority decision.
Both Golovkin and Alvarez have had some choice words for each other since their previous clashes. Alvarez will face light-heavyweight Dmitry Bivol to set up the clash, but believes the rivalry has now been made personal. "Yeah, it’s personal," he said. "He talks a lot of s***. "He says a lot of things. We’ll see. First things first. We still have to win May 7. I am one percent focused on May 7. After that, we will talk about that fight.
"But with this deal, they wanted a fight with Golovkin. So I said, ‘Why not? Everyone wants (me to) fight Golovkin, right?’ Maybe a little late, maybe not, but everybody wants the fight.”
