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  Press Release: By DAZN – September 21, 2022   – As Saul “Canelo” Alvarez ultimately outboxed Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin this past weekend to bring one of the most compelling rivalries in sport to an end, DAZN Group has confirmed the Canelo vs. GGG III fight night saw a global audience in the millions, with more than 1.06 million buys generated worldwide including PPV and DAZN subscriptions. Credit: DAZN   The event   - in partnership with Matchroom, Canelo Promotions and GGG Promotions -   marks DAZN’s biggest fight yet in 2022 both globally as well as in the United States. It also claims the title of #3 biggest boxing event globally on DAZN since its inception and #2 biggest boxing event in the United States since its 2018 launch.     Moreover, DAZN was once again the most downloaded sports app in the world, in addition to being the highest grossing app of any category in the United States.   Additionally, DAZN saw tremendous growth across its c...

Prior to the highly anticipated third encounter between Undisputed Super-Middleweight world champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and two-time unified Middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin, this observer asked one question. Would the third fight bring a finale to one of Boxing’s most heated rivalries over the last decade or would the third chapter in the story between the two fighters lead to a fourth encounter? Depending on one’s perspective, the answer to the question was either a simple or a complex one. Ideally, when one thinks of a trilogy in combat sports, the third fight more often than not serves as a tiebreaker after two fighters subsequently split the first two encounters. There are rare instances where three fights are not enough to settle matters and scenarios where the set up for a trilogy is not ideal. In this case, there was a controversial draw in the first bout between Alvarez and Golovkin and a debated outcome in the second fight where Alvarez was declared the winner ...