-Man: Rolling! -Man 2: Picture's up.
-Mark. -Director: Action!
Narrator: The time is the present,
but the story we're about to tell you
has been inspired by the past.
On September 16th,
27-year-old Canelo Alvarez,
now the unrivaled boxing superstar
at the pinnacle of his success,
will face the undisputed middleweight champion of the world,
35-year-old Gennady Golovkin,
also known as GGG.
Announcer: He has the highest knockout percentage ever
for a middleweight champion.
Narrator: It's a younger man, who has emerged the more popular,
facing off against the older pound-for-pound great,
looking to usurp his fame.
-Announcer 2: That's Gennady Golovkin.
A consensus is forming around him,
because he's annihilating anyone willing to get in the ring with him.
Narrator: It's a throwback fight that's history in the making,
inspired by a time when the best
fought the best more regularly.
Canelo Alvarez has lost once
in 49 professional fights.
-Men: Oh! -Announcer: And there it is.
-Narrator: In 37, GGG is undefeated.
Each knows what's at stake
as they prepare for the biggest fight
of their respective careers.
On this journey, the greatest legends
of the sport-- leading journalists,
the fighters, and the promoters--
will weigh in against the backdrop
of the making of this epic commercial...
-Director: Action! -...as we chronicle the unexpected path
in the ring of each fighter that has led up
to the now highly anticipated throwback super fight.
GGG, is there anything you'd like to tell Canelo?
-Canelo, anything you'd like to tell GGG?
(Alvarez speaks Spanish)
-Martin Rogers: This is the kind of fight
that appeals to boxing in 2017,
but it's also the kind of fight that would appeal
to boxing fans at any time, in any era.
-Narrator: Arguably, the biggest middleweight fight in decades.
You got Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta.
You got Hagler and Hearns, and Hagler and Leonard.
This is one of the great middleweight matchups ever.
Narrator: As youngsters, these two champions
grew up being inspired by moments like this.
On September 16th, they are set to inspire
a whole new generation.
This is the countdown
to Canelo-Golovkin.
-(bell dings) -(crowd cheering)
(men chattering)
Tom Loeffler: When I walked onto the set,
it was like going into a time warp.
The whole concept of the commercial
and promoting the fight,
with the ring there and all the--
you know, all the old boxing gloves, the shoes,
the trunks, and the suits that they were wearing,
it-- it just really took me back to, you know,
"These were the glory days of boxing."
Oscar De La Hoya: Canelo-GGG is a throwback fight.
It reminds me of, back in the late '80s,
when Roberto Duran
was fighting Thomas Hearns,
when Thomas Hearns was fighting Sugar Ray Leonard,
when Sugar Ray Leonard was fighting Marvelous Marvin Haggler,
and they were rotating each other, round robin with each other,
and creating these special fights.
Loeffler: Now you're getting this great matchup here
in the present time, but it just brought that
feel of an old-school boxing gym back.
-Director: Face off! -(cameras clicking rapidly)
-Director: We got it. -(applause)
Bernard Hopkins: This is the time to watch this middleweight unification.
The last time there was a unification
is when I represented
the middleweight division, Bernard Hopkins.
There's not every day you see a unification
in any weight division in boxing,
so when you get a chance
to see something rare,
and it happens in the middleweight division,
and the middleweight division has a lot of history--
Tommy Hearns, Roberto "The Hands of Stone" Duran-- into my era.
That's why this fight is a throwback.
Announcer: After having come out of the Mayweather-Pacquiao era,
when we didn't get to see that fight when it would be at its best,
I think there's a sense in boxing,
"No more messing around."
I think people want to see two fighters in the ring.
Those are the two best middleweights.
Interviewer: Do you think this fight has the potential
to be epic like the fight you were a part of in history?
-Man: The real deal right there.
-Boom! -Man: That's the real deal.
(Roberto Duran speaks Spanish)
(crowd cheering)
-Announcer: Target practice. -Announcer 2: Canelo doing whatever he wants.
Announcer: This has become a showcase
for Canelo Alvarez's outstanding skill set.
These are hard jabs right on the chin.
Hard right hand by Golovkin, down goes Jacobs.
(speaks Spanish)
(cheering)
(Duran speaks Spanish)
-(bell dings) -(crowd cheering)
Announcer: Oh! It's all over!
This is what it's all about, ladies and gentlemen!
Announcer 2: It's literally packed to the rafters.
-(bell dings) -Director: Beautiful! All right!
-(people cheer, clap)
Narrator: To spend two long days shooting a pay-per-view commercial
for the two best fighters in the world is unheard of,
considering their average fight-night paydays
are typically north of eight figures.
But extraordinary events require extraordinary commitments
inside and outside the ring.
Man: Boom.
Narrator: And as for the payday,
this fight figures to break pay-per-view records
and represent career-high one-night earnings
for each fighter.
(Alvarez speaks Spanish)
Narrator: The world has acknowledged this is a throwback fight,
a defining moment in the respective careers of each fighter.
Both have had a long and hard road to this point.
Yes, more than often, they have made it look easy.
But each in their own way recognizes the obstacles they have overcome
and the learning that has occurred along the way.
The unexpected path each fighter has taken
to arrive at this precipitous moment in sports
provides a unique perspective on their character
and the very different ways each views their career.
Man: All right, quiet all around. Roll sound.
(crowd cheering)
-(bell dings) -Referee: Box!
Announcer: Proksa gets hurt!
Down goes Proksa!
Golovkin steps in and down he goes again!
Interviewer: 2012, you fought Shane Mosley.
Everybody said, "He's not ready.
"They're throwing him in. He's taking a risk.
This could be very bad."
(Alvarez speaks Spanish)
-(crowd cheering) -(bell dings)
Announcer: Mosley seems to be very much
in a good, comfortable mood right now.
Announcer 2: Canelo is beginning to put a physical imprint on the fight.
Body shots. These are sound-effect punches.
Interviewer: Gabriel Rosado.
(bell dings)
Y'all gotta stop it! Or somebody's gonna die, man!
Announcer: The corner of Rosado stopping it.
Interviewer: Josesito Lopez. Now this was a guy--
he broke Victor Ortiz's jaw.
(crowd cheering)
Announcer: Lopez does it! What an upset!
Interviewer: "This guy's got good hands. He's a warrior.
He's gonna give Canelo problems." Tell me what happened.
Announcer: Firing away, lands another-- lands another left.
Canelo against the ropes, and he's stuck in the corner.
Perfect shots by Canelo Alvarez.
Huge body shot by Canelo!
(distorted) Eight!
Announcer: Canelo working! Working!
Left to the body, right to the body, right uppercut!
Announcer 2: He's outta here.
(crowd cheering)
Interviewer: Okay, now, Ishida.
(bell dings)
-(camera flashes popping) -(people chattering)
Announcer: Middleweight title on the line,
two monster punchers-- it just doesn't get any better.
Smith: The reason why boxing plays so well on the big screen
is because boxers and big fights
are a metaphor for life.
There's no better way to tell a story
or to be in a story
than to be involved in a big fight.
Director: And cut! Great! Cut! Great!
Journalists are very comfortable in certain situations.
So, we're comfortable in an office.
We're comfortable in front of a laptop.
Director: Jam in tighter, guys.
You're jockeying for position. Good.
We're not used to a film set, so you arrive and you don't really know what to expect,
and then suddenly you turn up
and out of the corner of your eye,
there's Thomas Hearns, someone who you watched as a kid
and looked up to and idolized.
Director: And action.
Smith: You got guys like Oscar De La Hoya there,
you got Roberto Duran, you got "The Hitman" Hearns,
and they're as excited to be there as I am.
And it makes you realize kind of the gravity of this event.
Director: The greatest of today
with the greatest of yesterday.
Let's get a round of applause.
(cheering, applause)
Lance Pugmire: I mean, these guys used to fight so routinely,
and they would fight the best fights possible
without any hesitation.
That obviously has changed
as boxing has become a big business over the years.
The fact that we're able to get back to this point is tremendous.
Announcer: Rivalries, period, in boxing
require both fighters trying to be great.
Sometimes both of them achieving it whether they win or they lose.
And that's what we hope for in a GGG-Canelo fight.
Rogers: This one shapes up as a fight for the ages.
It's a timeless story of the kind of eternal struggle.
Two men who know what life is like
without having very much who suddenly have
the opportunity to have everything that they ever wanted.
And I think the person who deals with that the best
will be the one who comes out on top.
Director: Cut!
Smith: They both feel in their heart of hearts
that they're the best 160-lb fighter on the planet,
but they know there's that other guy,
and they wanna know at the end of the day,
"Am I? Am I?" Everybody can tell them they're the best,
but the only person who can really give them
the answer is that other guy.
Announcer: GGG wants you to stay right there,
so he can go and getcha.
And Canelo wants you to come right at him, so he can do his thing.
Their strengths play into each other,
and that is going to be one hell of a night.
I think the fact that this story and this fight
has that property to it is something special,
and it's something that maybe we haven't seen for a long time.
People want to see the best against the best.
People want to see great personalities.
But more than anything, it's about seeing a great fight,
and I think that's what we're looking forward to here.
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez
both have hands of stone. They both believe
that, "Look, if I land my best punch on this other guy in the ring,
he's going down. I'm gonna win this fight."
-Man: Oh! -Announcer: Tremendous right hand shot by Canelo.
Hard right hand by Golovkin.
Pugmire: Both of these guys just have such supreme confidence
that they are gonna be the guy that walks out of that ring on September 16th
as the winner and the three-belt champion,
who can say, you know, "I'm the man."
Smith: People have no idea the amount of pressure
that'll be on these guys' shoulders
when they climb inside that squared circle.
I feel this tension that-- it's palpable,
and that's what is going to make this one of the great middleweight matchups ever.
(bell dings)
-(bell dings) -(camera flash pops)
Announcer: This fight could be stopped any second now.
Interviewer: Okay, now, Matthew Macklin.
(crowd cheering)
You broke his ribs?
(crowd cheering)
Interviewer: We're gonna talk about Austin Trout.
He's undefeated, and he's a very tricky fighter.
In the early rounds,
it looked like you were in trouble.
It looked like, "Could he lose this fight on points?"
Until-- wham-- right hand, knockdown.
(speaks Spanish)
-(bell dings) -Referee: Box!
(crowd cheering)
Announcer: Canelo may be down in this fight...
-(bell dings) -Referee: Hands!
Announcer: ...'cause he has the kind of tactics to turn it around.
Announcer 2: Another big rally by Alvarez!
Alvarez landing everything!
Straight right!
And that's it.
-(bell dings) -Man: Whoo!
Interviewer: Curtis Stevens, who is a trash talker, right?
Interviewer: So, Abel said to you in the corner,
"Come on, let's finish him." And you actually said,
"No, I'm gonna make it a little more painful,
because he trash-talked"?
-(bell dings) -(crowd shouting)
Announcer: Good left hook by Golovkin,
and down goes Stevens!
-Referee: Three! Four! -Announcer: There it is.
And now Gennady will go for the kill.
Now Golovkin with a body shot.
And they're gonna stop it in the corner.
Interviewer: Alfredo Angulo. If they didn't stop the fight,
you would've killed him.
-(crowd cheering) -(bell dings)
Announcer: How shocked would we be at this point
-if this fight went 12 rounds? -Announcer 2: Oh, no way.
-Announcer: No way. -(announcers laugh)
Announcer: He's hitting him with everything but the kitchen sink now.
Uppercut by Alvarez.
They stopped the fight.
(speaks Spanish)
Interviewer: Marco Antonio Rubio.
This is when America really said,
"This GGG is crazy."
-(crowd cheering) -(bell dings)
Announcer: My goodness. What a power shot that guy can throw.
Announcer 2: Second round knockout!
Interviewer: Erislandy Lara, slick Cuban boxer.
Announcer: Stunned Lara.
These are some monster shots
to Lara's very narrow midsection.
Interviewer: The stakes keep getting higher. Martin Murray.
Back to Monaco. You liked Monaco, huh?
Announcer: Golovkin is pouring it on now.
Murray sailed through the air before landing on the canvas.
Announcer 2: What's the cost of trying to go the distance with Golovkin?
Interviewer: James Kirkland, a big, giant power-puncher.
(crowd cheering)
Announcer: And bam! Wow!
Interviewer: Willie Monroe, Jr.
I like more serious boxing. He's not true fighter.
(crowd chanting) GGG! GGG! GGG! GGG!
Interviewer: Mexico versus Puerto Rico, Miguel Coto.
(bell dings)
Announcer: That was a nice uppercut!
Announcer 2: Nice, straight right hand.
-(bell dings) -It's over! We're done!
(crowd cheering)
Interviewer: Tell me about David Lemieux.
-(bell dings) -(crowd cheers)
Announcer: And talk about getting hit.
And Lemieux is hurt! And here goes Golovkin!
Golovkin tried to knock him to the ropes.
The body shot hurt him again.
Steve Willis is in to stop the fight!
Interviewer: Amir Khan, knocked him out
with a punch where everybody thought he was dead.
Announcer: Right-hand shot by Canelo!
Interviewer: Dominic Wade.
-Announcer: And that's it. Less than two rounds. -(bell dings)
A series of right hands.
Interviewer: Liam Smith, knocked him out.
-Announcer: Boom. -Announcer 2: Boom. Oh. That hurt me.
Interviewer: Tell me about Kell Brook. Did you break his face?
Interviewer: Julio Cesar Chavez.
(Alvarez speaks Spanish)
Interviewer: What about Daniel Jacobs?
Announcer: Down goes Jacobs!
(bell dings)
Interviewer: Is this guy on fire or what?
(both laugh)
(Alvarez speaks Spanish)
-(bell dings) -(crowd cheering)
I want to do some where we see the newspaper, but we see him also.
Go, camera! And action!
Back to sync. Cut!
Canelo's confidence is at its all-time high,
but that's dangerous for a young fighter like Canelo.
Canelo has to be confident,
and secure, and sure of himself.
But he has to be very careful,
because on the other side of the ring
you have a fighter who is feeling those same exact emotions.
He's feeling strong. He's feeling confident.
He's feeling unstoppable.
September 16th, you will get
a fight like you've never ever seen before.
People do not want to see a boxing match.
They wanna see a fight.
And on September 16th, you will get a fight.
Announcer: Body shot from Canelo.
This is very much like the early days of Mike Tyson.
(crowd chanting) GGG! GGG! GGG! GGG!
Loeffler: This is two warriors going to battle,
but for the enjoyment of the fans.
I mean, this is really what evokes
that throwback type of fight
that really brings the sport, I think, to a different level.
We see all the reaction that we've gotten,
especially when we announced the fight,
when Canelo was standing victorious after the Chavez fight,
and then calls GGG in the ring,
and Gennady's walking in with his music.
I mean, that was just a prelude to what's gonna happen September 16th.
Bernard Hopkins: This fight is gonna be one of those fights,
because of style and because how much is at stake,
being "the guy" in a division,
knowing you're the guy.
"Undisputed" means "no dispute."
And when you have that on your banner in history,
anything else can leave you, but history always live on.
Announcer: He knows this is the fight
that is the door to superstardom,
and he wants to take advantage of every little opportunity.
(Duran speaking Spanish)
(crowd chanting) GGG! GGG!
Announcer: GGG, Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin.
How can he get any better?
De La Hoya: GGG is a monster. He's a machine.
He's-- he's unstoppable.
He hits with dynamite, with both hands.
He can take the punch. He keeps moving forward.
He doesn't take a step going backwards.
He wants to give you what he calls a "drama show."
GGG's game plan will be to knock out Canelo.
Can he do it? Will he do it?
Or will Canelo come out, guns blazing,
with that same strategy of moving forward,
not taking a step back, and throwing power punches
right from the start? What are we gonna get?
We're gonna get an explosion inside that ring September 16th.
That's "Interview with Canelo."
Interview 2, take 1. Mark.
Interviewer: Do you think you're faster than him?
(bell dings)
(crowd cheering)
Announcer: Oh! That woke him up!
Announcer 2: We told you it would be fast and furious.
Golovkin: It's my time.
I'm ready for anybody.
You can't let Golovkin have free-range target practice at you,
because he's gonna get you sooner or later.
Interviewer: Do you think you're stronger than him?
(bell dings)
Announcer: Oh, his legs are not there.
This time I don't think he's getting up.
Announcer 2: He didn't even see it.
After first round, I don't feel his power, I don't feel nothing.
(bell dings)
Announcer: And talk about getting hit!
And Lemieux is hurt! And here goes Golovkin!
Interviewer: You think you have better defense?
Announcer 2: Oh, he looks totally relaxed.
Announcer 3: Good stuff from Alvarez when he lets his hands go.
I wanna destroy him. Just up to this point, I wanna destroy him.
Announcer: Guys are flying backwards
from the kind of punches you expect to see
in a comic book, not in a ring.
Interviewer: Do you think you will shock the world and beat him?
Man: Oh!
It's serious business. This is boxing.
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