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Gennadiy Golovkin had no excuses for his lack of activity in many of the rounds in the trilogy showdown with Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez.

At the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Canelo (58-2-2, 39 KOs) dominated Golovkin (42-2-1, 37 KOs) for the majority of the fight for a twelve round unanimous decision to retain the undisputed super middleweight crown.

The scores were 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113.

Most observers saw the fight was being much wider in favor of Canelo. The majority of scorecards at ringside gave Golovkin no more than two or three rounds.

Golovkin, now 40-years-old and inactive over the last few years, was very tentative, especially in the first eight rounds, before he finally began to open up more often in the ninth.

Golovkin admits that he was overly cautious of being countered by the much faster Canelo.

"Everybody knows who is Canelo, everybody knows [that if you take] a bad step, you lose the fight," said Golovkin.

"You [can] lose [from] one punch, you lose the fight. Look at his face, look at my face. We're like this because it was a high-level fight because we trained well and we did a very good quality fight. This fight was more tactical, like chess. Today Canelo was better."

The trilogy fight lacked the punch and drama of the first two meetings.

In their first encounter, back in 2017, they fought to controversial twelve round split draw. There were many who felt Golovkin should have been the winner. The rematch, which took place a year later, saw Canelo win a very close twelve round majority decision. It was a close fight that could have gone either way.

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Golovkin: This Fight Was More Tactical, Like Chess, Canelo Was Better - BoxingScene.com