Live HBO PPV Boxing - Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin 2 | Official Boxing Rematch on MAY 5 , 2018

Canelo Alvarez and Gennady "GGG" Golovkin will step back into the ring this year to do battle in what is the most anticipated boxing rematch in years. HBO officially announced on Monday that the rematch will indeed be taking place on May 5, Cinco de Mayo.

While the fight is officially on, where it will take place remains to be determined. The two world class boxers fought to a draw at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, last September.

Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KO) and Golovkin (37-0-1, 33 KO) fought to a highly-controversial draw last September, with most observers feeling Golovkin had done plenty enough to win the fight. The rematch was anticipated immediately, and it figured that it would take place on Cinco de Mayo, an annual big boxing weekend. 

Canelo, the younger man at 27, will be looking to prove he wasn’t gifted a draw that first time around, and there is the thought that he might be able to do better than in the first fight, as he’s still young, whereas the 35-year-old Golovkin has probably peaked at this point — which is not to say he’s declining, necessarily — and gave all he can give that first time around.